If you’re a Logan parent of young children, connect with our ParentsNext workers.

Each year, they help hundreds of people prepare to join the workforce when their children start school.

Our ParentsNext workers are specialists in supporting you with:

• developing your skills, such as literacy, social skills, job-specific knowledge and job search know-how
• enhancing your confidence and motivation – helping you feel positive about your work prospects
• addressing challenges – sorting out issues that make it hard to start working.

While you’re working with us, you could find a job or start education or training. Or you might improve your readiness to do these things in the future.

Who is eligible?

For many people, participating in ParentsNext is a condition of receiving the Parenting Payment. Services Australia will refer you to us if they feel the program is right for you.

We also welcome parents of young children who are on a parenting payment but aren’t referred by Services Australia and want help getting ready for work. 

Our Spark employment mentoring service backs women to get into work or training fast.

Spark exists for women who have been going through hard times and need support to get back into employment.

Our Spark mentors listen to your dreams, goals and aspirations and then work with you to achieve them.

We can help you:

• Work out what you’d like to do
• Develop your job search know-how
• Connect with prospective employers
• Enrol in training and education
• Overcome barriers that are getting in your way.

Regardless of your circumstances, we have an out-of-the-box approach to supporting you to live your best life.

The program has proven its effectiveness in backing people to get jobs.

Spark is supported by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Office for Women.

Who is eligible?

Women living in Logan or the Scenic Rim who want to enter or re-enter work or training.

Watch Spark Mentor Vanessa talking about the Spark program.

Our social enterprise Substation33 offers voluntary work placements that have the added bonus of giving back to the environment.

Substation33 provides a supportive work environment where volunteers can learn skills, improve their work readiness and get help to look for work.

Activities you can undertake at Substation33 include:

• e-waste recycling
• 3D printing/CAD
• IT services
• software development
• hardware development
• design/prototyping
• audio visual
• jewellery making.

Who is eligible?

Anyone. A wide range of people participate at Substation33 including older people, Work for the Dole participants, university students, jobseekers, students with a disability, and people who want help to move into work.

For many years, our Substation33 team has offered traineeships in land management.

With funding from Skilling Queenslanders for Work, teams of trainees have rehabilitated and cleared the disused rail corridor from Bethania to Beaudesert.

Trainees learn skills in horticulture and first aid, and gain work experience to help them move into other work when they finish.

Who is eligible?

Jobseekers who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and have difficulty finding work.