To assist businesses to recruit more culturally and linguistically diverse people, the Migrant Resource Centre will deliver a cultural change program to raise awareness of structural barriers to a diverse workforce such as bias and discrimination.

In association with the Master Plumbers Association Tasmania, this project will provide targeted mentoring to plumbing businesses using a tailored business reporting system. The project is a development and testing pilot, with a view to expanding its offering more broadly in future.

The Master Builders Tasmania Construction Safe program enables school-aged people to participate in building and construction sector work experience and be prepared for employment.

The primary objective of the Centacare Evolve Housing Build Up Tassie Civils project is to increase school aged students’ understanding of employment opportunities and pathways into civil construction, including students who have disengaged from school.

This Master Builders Tasmania program creates a pathway from classroom to apprenticeship, exposing students to what happens in our industry, and laying the stepping stones for a career path into the building and construction industry.

The program is launching state-wide to secondary schools with an Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICESA) of less than 1000. A series of work-based learning activities within four partner schools will be undertaken across North and North-West Tasmania.