Building Resilience and Confidence for Employment

Outcomes for BRACE participants:

• Increase number of students with diverse learning needs attending and lasting in their planned 35-hour work placement
• Increased rate of a successful and rewarding work placement and industry experience for students with diverse learning needs
• Students with diverse learning needs to acquire skills to support their engagement with work placement including managing anxiety, attending to mental health issues, setting goals, building resilience
• The skills acquired through BRACE can be used not just on work placement but are tools for life
• Introduction of students with diverse learning needs to operating and functional workplaces who have work practices that support diversity and inclusiveness in employment.

The BRACE program was funded by the Regional Industry Education Partnership, NSW Training Services.