Nominations now open for the IELLEN Awards
Can you think of a young person, education provider, employer, or community organisation that has done great things in 2018? Our annual Awards recognises notable achievements – and there’s cash [...]
IELLEN: an active October
This past month the IELLEN have: chaired a meeting of the Inner Metro Youth & Community Partnership, where 20 attendees heard a DET presentation on the Navigator Program contributed to [...]
IELLEN SWL Program: leading the way
The IELLEN’s Structured Workplace Learning (SWL) Program continues to secure the widest range of opportunities for secondary school students. Opportunities have traversed all 12 industry areas, with the five most [...]
Spring is here
The IELLEN continues important partnership and project work. This past month we've supported schools and students through our Learning Mentor Program; an Intensive Transition Support Program (in consortia with partners); [...]
The IELLEN SWL Program Supports its 50th School
This week, we’ve reached another milestone! In 2018 the IELLEN SWL Program has now supported access to a placement from the fiftieth individual school. In fact students from schools as [...]
SWL: another milestone achieved
IELLEN SWL staff would like to thank our employers who have so far this year offered 425 SWL opportunities, all of which we have uploaded onto the state-wide SWL portal. [...]
2018 Learning Mentor Program launched
The IELLEN has commenced its 2018 program with a Learning Mentor induction and training session. We are thrilled to have a fantastic group of mentors this year, who are youth [...]
Postcard from Scotland
Scotland is enjoying a rare, long summer, and all anyone can talk about is the warm weather! IELLEN Projects Worker, Tracey Fenton recently met with a number of services delivering [...]
Homework Clubs Directory
The IELLEN is pleased to announce the latest in our ongoing series of resources. This new resource is a Homework Club Directory, developed to assist Youth Service Organisations, schools and [...]
Postcard from Ireland
Travelling through the County of Kerry you notice stunning countryside, quaint towns and beautiful ocean views - what you don't see on the surface is the massive youth unemployment, underemployment [...]