Lutheran Community Care


Training

Gympie | Maroochydore and Surrounds | Nambour | Noosa | Qld wide
All Sunshine Coast | Other areas

Gympie

Training

 
Mission Australia, Gympie

Job Network - Job Matching, recruitment and placement services for job seekers in the Sunshine Coast region. Intensive assistance support  is provided to long term unemployed people and people at risk of becoming long term unemployed.
gympie@missionaustralia.com.au
07 5483 9160

Disability Training

 
Red Cross Business Centre

Provides skills for people with disabilities and supported employment opportunities.
gympie@redcross.org.au
07 5482 2535

Learning Centres

 
Learning Network QLD (LNQ) - Gympie Learning Centre

LNQ encourages the development of active learning communities through the establishment of approximately 40 learning centres and a number of satellite centres.
http://www.lnq.net.au
gympie@LNQ.net.au
07 5483 6578

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Maroochydore and Surrounds

Training

 
Mission Australia, Maroochydore

Job Network - Job Matching, recruitment and placement services for job seekers in the Sunshine Coast region. Intensive assistance support is provided to long term unemployed people and people at risk of becoming long term unemployed.
maroochydore@missionaustralia.com.au
07 5443 7103

Employment Training

 
Employment Plus - Salvation Army

Jobsearch Network, Vocational Training, Skills Enhancement Initiative (SEI), a funding program that compensates for the costs and down time associated with taking on new employees.
Maroochydore_Eplus@aep.salvationarmy.org
07 5451 7600

Employment Services

 
Work Directions Australia

Employment services as part of the Job Network.  Personal Support Programs (PSP) & Transition to Work (TTW).
www.workdirections.com.au
maroochydore@workdirections.com.au
07 5479 1091

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Nambour

Training

 
Mission Australia, Nambour

Job Network - Job Matching, recruitment and placement services for job seekers in the Sunshine Coast region. Intensive assistance support is provided to long term unemployed people and people at risk of becoming long term unemployed.
nambour@missionaustralia.com.au
07 5476 3189

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Noosa

Training for unemployed

 
Noosa Community Training Centre

To improve community awareness of the problems of unemployed people, provide a place for the unemployed to meet and assist and support unemployed people during their search for meaningful employment.  No age limit.
www.nctc.com.au
info@nctc.com.au
1800 061 035

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Qld wide

Online Services & Info

 
WORKPLACE.GOV.AU

Provides access to online services and information, guiding you to employment information, government assistance, jobs, careers, training, working conditions and Indigenous Employment Centres.  In addition to access to australian workplace websites, this portal provides access to news and media releases from the workplace relations sectors and direct access to JobSearch, Careers, VolunteerSearch and WageNet.
www.workplace.gov.au

Training

 
Health & Community Services Workforce Council

Provide leadership, information and assistance to relevant stakeholders in the areas of policy, access, development and implementation as these impact on training in the QLD Community Services and Health Industries.
www.workforce.org.au
admin@workforce.org.au
07 3234 0190

Tertiary Admissions

 
QLD Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC)

Tertiary Advice and counselling service, one on one career guidance. Process applications for places in undergraduate courses for QLD Universities and TAFE.
www.qtac.edu.au
qtac@qtac.edu.au
07 3858 1222

Women's training info

 
Queensland Working Women's Service

QLD Working Women's Service Inc (QWWS) is a safety net QLD Government funded community organisation that provides free and confidential information, advocacy, referrals and advice to women in QLD about employment or industrial relations concerns.
qwws@qwws.org.au
07 3211 1440

Industrial Relations Issues

 
Department of Industrial Relations

Wage and Industrial Relations Issues.
www.wageline.qld.gov.au
1300 369 945

Employment Advice

 
Workplace Health & Safety

Aims to improve health and safety in the workplace.
www.whs.qld.gov.au
1300 369 915

 
Fair Go

Advice for employers and employees relating to new federal workplace laws.
www.deir.qld.gov.au
1300 737 841

Disability Employment Training

 
Jobmatch Employment Agency

Employment service placing people with a disability in open, competitive employment. Support in areas of finding and keeping a job, socialising, transport, aids and equipment.
info@jobmatchgympie.com.au
07 5482 1633

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All Sunshine Coast

Employment Training

 
EPIC Employment Services Inc

Assists people (18 -25) with disablities into employment.  Personal support program - counselling and monitoring referral program.
craig_forsythe@epic.org.au
07 5448 0763

Disability Employment Training

 
STEPS Employment

STEPS is an employment program which assists people with a disability to find and keep work in the career of their choice.  STEPS also provide on-the-job support and organises traineeships and apprenticeships.
http://www.steps.net.au
enquiries@stepsemployment.com.au
07 5438 5500

English Training

 
Sunshine Coast Immigrant Education Unit

Sunshine Coast Intensive English Unit for primary and secondary students.
07 5450 4111

English as a Second Language Centre

Classes for English as a second language on the Sunshine Coast.  For migrants and long term Australian residents who need to improve their English. No or low cost. http://www.csit.tafe.net
sct.information@det.qld.gov.au
07 5459 3000

literacy, education, respite and support

 
Suncare Community Services

Suncare demonstrates leadership in facilitating recovery based literacy, education, respite and support for people with a mental illness including their families. Through the Independent Life Skills Program, Respite Plus and Recovery Australia, Suncare seeks to empower the individual and promote independent living within the community. Enquiries are welcome. www.suncare.org.au
info@crcsc.com.au
1800 059 059

Training

 
Sunshine Coast Skills Development Network

The Integrated Skills Development Strategy is a statewide initiative which aims to enhance the capacity of funded organisations to offer quality services in their local community.
www.workforce.org.au
admin@workforce.org.au
07 3234 0190

FOCUS: Sunshine Coast Division of General Practice

Focus provides therapy and counselling for substance use and mental health problems.  GP referral is required for mental health difficulties.  There is no charge for services.  Offices are located in Gympie, Noosa, Nambour, Maroochydore, Currimundi, Landsborough,  Maleny and Mooloolah.
www.scdgp.org.au
focus@scdgp.org.au
07 5443 2100

TAFE

 
TAFE Sunshine Coast Campus

Personal and professional development courses.
www.sunshinecoast.tafe.qld.gov.au
13 12 48

Tertiary Education

 
University of the Sunshine Coast

Tertiary education in social work, human services and counselling.  Providing students with the ability to acquire both the specialist skills and knowledge of their discipline and the general ability to think critically, ethically and independently.
www.usc.edu.au
jfoster@usc.edu.au
07 5430 1234

Suicide support

 
StandBy Response Service - United Synergies Ltd

The StandBy Response Service provides a 24hour coordinated community response for families, friends and associates bereaved by suicide. On request by people bereaved by suicide, StandBy can provide initial telephone support including crisis counselling, information and linkage to the Standby Referral Pathway or outreach by the StandBy Trauma Response Team. StandBy has also developed StandBy 4 LIFE training programs in the areas of suicide, crisis, trauma, loss and grief.  StandBy also provides Living Works ASIST Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training.   www.unitedsynergies.com.au
admin@unitedsynergies.com.au
Office 07 5422 4277
24hour Crisis Response 0407 766 961

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Other Areas

Information and telephone referral

 
Women's Infolink

An information and telephone referral centre with a range of free facilities and services for individuals and non-profit organisations.  Resource centre, free internet access and tutorials, free conference facilities, publications. Free Computer Courses for Beginners - women only.
www.women.qld.gov.au
info@women.qld.gov.au
1800 177 577

Training

 
NAMTEC Inc

Youth aged 12 - 24 years. Youth development and training centre. 
reception@nametec.org.au
07 5441 1559

 
Mental Health Association QLD

Envisages communities in which all people are provided with opportunities to optimise their mental health and participate as valued members of society.
1300 729 686

 
Morris House Neighborhood Centre

Computer and internet access for low cost - free for jobsearch.  Tax help, Work Directions, Child Health Clinic.
comdevelop@landsborough.com
07 5494 1255

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