INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT : HUMAN STUDIES

Job/Position: Director
It's been great experience working with Acknowledge Education and Joseph. Students have been very keen in learning while in their placement.  Lot of the placements have been converted into paid employment as well. Keep up the good work .

During and after my final placement at Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association in September, I have received offers to work in multiple projects and later on got promoted to a full-time position in June.

I have been working as a CHSP service coordinator and at the same time, co-facilitating social groups for older people who live with Dementia. Our group was granted a Community Grant from Maribyrnong council in November and the attachment is a photo of me and the Maribyrnong’s Mayor Mrs Cuc Lam in our celebration event.

It was such a rewarding journey at Acknowledge Education where you can be sure that all the hard work will one day fruit.

Students from Acknowledge Education assisted us in most of area’s where needed in our day-to-day organisation. The areas are grants, donations, admin, sponsorship, social media, logistics and field work. Acknowledge Education students contributed to engage with our community to affect positive and sustainable change.

Job/Position: Programs and Volunteer Coordinator and Trainer

The students are a real asset to the Community Centre’s programs, they demonstrating having excellent skills and knowledge from their training.  They have very friendly and helpful personalities and work very well as team members and being self-starters, are also able to work unsupervised.  We consider ourselves very fortunate to have them on board. The staff, volunteers, program participants and clients are very appreciative of the work they do and always let me know what a great job they do.

We thank Tania Fernando, Sophie Upadhayay, Alexandros Vacharidis, Kim Brooks and Vicky Fletcher for their excellent contribution to the centre and wish them all the best with their career development.

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I have worked in Education, Personal Development and Counselling Since early 1990, I found that I loved working with people and have a knack for explaining complicated psychological concepts in ways which were both understandable and actionable. Since then, I’ve personally worked with thousands of people from more than 10 different countries. I’ve addressed audiences from Sydney to London to Bahrain and everywhere in between. I’ve talked people down from suicides, inspired broken marriages, helped children and helped build first time businesses, healthy relationships and team building, As I expand into my focus onto the population at large, my goal within this Industry and my writings is for a different take on the self-help genre. Up until now, personal development advice has always been doled out in terms of, “I’m great, you suck, here’s how to fix yourself.” It’s the old “guru” model and it messes people up as much as it helps them. My aim is to teach from a place of humility; as in, “I suck sometimes, you suck sometimes; here’s how I deal with it, hopefully it helps.” I call it self-help from a first-person perspective.
Acknowledge Education is a highly professional Campus with Teachers from all walks of life employed, this level of diversity gives all students an excellent learning experience of historical knowledge coupled with modern philosophies for international students. In my experience of 30 years in the education sector I have found teaching with Acknowledge Education supportive and of excellent standard to both the teaching team and the students.

Job/Position: Senior Mentor
We have had Community Services students from Acknowledge Education (Stott's College) for just under 2 years and we have found the students to be very focused and have been willing to learn.   The institute has been very supportive, providing a Liaison Officer and Placement Coordinator who respond very promptly especially if there are students who need extra support.

Job/Position: Senior Coodinator

We have had two Community Services students from Acknowledge Education (Stott's College), both have very different personality's, both were at different parts of their study. however they both were a great support, took direction well, asked questions, and just seemed to get on with things. they both had great communication skills, were able to support our clients with their needs. I set a few case management projects for them, which they completed extremely well, finding things out out our members lives and their wants and needs. They always had their work books ready to sign, not leaving it to the last day. It was a pleasure to work with them.

Today was Ravinder’s last day of her student placement at Communicare. As part of studying a Diploma of Community Services at Stott’s College Perth Campus, Ravinder has completed 160 hours assisting with our Individual and Family Support Service over the last 3 months.

To thank us for her placement, Ravinder brought in cake to share with us and the rest of the IFSS and Parenting team.

We wish Ravinder all the best with the remainder of her studies!

Job/Position: Director

Community Services Course placement students at Stott's College teamed up with Innovation Youth Centre to create the IYC Exploration Tool, a resource to support young people through customised case management and support the service user and youth-driven. Thank you to Stott's College for your hard and great work, the students were exceptional and professional.

Please click here to view the post on IYC website.

We thoroughly enjoyed having Agna, a student studying the Diploma of Community Services at Stott's College., as a part of our team, she is an asset to your organisation.

Please click here to see Police Citizens Youth Club NSW website.