Smart, Skilled, Hired and Diverse: Co-Designing Youth Employment Programs to Work for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Young People

In partnership with Navitas English and migrant, recently arrived and refugee young people in Greater Western Sydney, this project will research and co-design the Smart, Skilled, Hired Youth Employment program so as to maximize the engagement of diverse young people and dramatically improve their employment outcomes. The project adopts an engaged research, co-design and strengths-based approach which builds on the knowledge and expertise that already exists within the young people, organisations and communities who benefit from this program. The project will roll-out over three distinct phases involving co-design, pilot, delivery and evaluation of the engagement model for the program.

Researchers: Associate Professor Philippa Collin (ICS), Dr Teresa Swist (ICS), Dr Michelle Catanzaro (School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University)

Funding: Navitas English

Period: 2017-2020

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The Institute for Culture and Society is located in Parramatta, “the place where the eel sets down” in Dharug language,
along the north bank of the Parramatta River. It sits on the traditional lands and waters of the Burramattagal people of the Dharug Nation,
who have been stewards and caretakers of these territories since time immemorial, in what today is referred to as Greater Western Sydney,
one of the most diverse cultural communities in the world and home to the largest number of Indigenous Australians in the country.
The Institute for Culture and Society acknowledges the Dharug, Eora, Dharawal (also referred to as Tharawal)
and Wiradjuri peoples as traditional custodians and Indigenous knowledge-holders, whose storytelling serve
as historical record, a form of teaching and learning, a way to care for Country,
and an expression of Indigenous culture and identity.