pre-employment

Xcelerate Learning is a specialist training provider established to offer therapeutic training and skills development to jobseekers and the vocational rehabilitation and employment services industries. Xcelerate Learning is committed to providing innovative, personal and vocational solutions to job seekers, employers and the wider community.

What we do:

Xcelerate Learning is proud to offer a range of intensive pre and post placement training programs for jobseekers with high support needs and challenging behaviours, as well as interventions that are tailored and contextualized to meet the individual needs of the jobseeker and providers. We also provide a range of continuing professional development workshops specifically contextualized for the employment services and vocational rehabilitation industries.

How it works:

Xcelerate Learning Programs address the barriers that stop individuals from participating in the economic life of the community. Our programs are specifically designed to target the maladaptive thoughts, emotions and behaviours that hold these barriers in place. Most barriers to employment are determined by a person’s unhelpful ways of thinking. By helping jobseekers to understand the presenting problem, its causes and effects, and by teaching skills and strategies to overcome unhelpful thoughts, emotions and behaviours, Xcelerate Learning assists jobseekers along the pathway to employment.

Pre – Employment Programs:

These programs are aimed at addressing barriers and behaviours that are holding jobseekers back from participating in work or study. Prior to servicing, a comprehensive assessment is conducted and an intervention plan is drawn up. After the job seekers have participated in the education and management phase, post program support can be provided in the form of face to face counseling or via Xcelerate Learning’s Jobline 1300 Hotline.

• The ADAPT Program: (Assessment + 5 day drug and alcohol workshop)

Barriers: Substance abuse, motivation, negative thoughts and behaviours.

This program is for jobseekers whose ability to work or study is affected by substance abuse problems. The aim of the five day workshop is to educate jobseekers about the effects of drugs and alcohol on health and well being, challenge irrational thoughts that are resulting in unrestrained consumption and provide/teach strategies and interventions that will increase employability and allow job seekers to manage the transition into employment or education.

• The MYNE Program: (Assessment + 5 day Managing Negative Emotions workshop)

Barriers: Mood disorders, anxiety disorders, phobias, motivation, confidence, traumatic stress disorders, anhedonia, negative thoughts and behaviours.

This program is for job seekers whose ability to work or study is affected by the symptoms and functional affects of a variety of mood and anxiety disorders, including phobias. The aim of the 5 day workshop is to educate jobseekers about the their negative emotions, the symptoms and functional losses, challenge irrational thoughts and provide/teach strategies, skills and interventions that will increase employability and allow the jobseekers to manage the transition into employment and education.

• The ACE Program: (Assessment + 3 day Anger and Conflict management workshop)

Barriers: Anger, stress, empathy, impulse control, assertiveness and problem solving

This program is for jobseekers whose ability to participate in the workforce has been truncated by aggressive urges and anger management problems. The aim of the 3 day workshop is to educate jobseekers about anger, stress, risk factors, and reasons for conflict, challenge irrational anger related thoughts and provide/teach strategies, skills and interventions that will increase employability and allow jobseekers to manage the transition into employment and education.

• The RAISE Program: (Assessment + 3 day Raising Image and Self Esteem workshop)

Barriers: Self esteem self image, self harm, confidence and motivation.

This program is for jobseekers that have been out of the workforce for an extended period of time and have low self esteem, confidence and decreased motivation. This program is specifically targeted at irrational, self defeating thoughts, negative emotions, motivation and confidence. The program aims to teach job seekers to recognize and monitor their unhelpful cognitions, as well as take proactive steps to improve their social situation.

• The G-FIN Program: (2 day Gambling and Financial Management workshop)

Barriers: compulsive gambling, impulsivity, planning

This program is for job seekers whose lives have been affected by problem gambling, impulsive spending and financial mismanagement. The aim of the 2 day work shop is to educate job seekers on the effects of problem gambling and impulsive spending on psycho-social wellbeing, teach budgeting and planning techniques, challenge irrational thoughts and teach strategies and interventions that will allow the job seeker to move forward.

• Accommodation: (1 day workshop)

Barriers: Homelessness

A short, motivationally inspired, solution focused intervention designed to assist job seekers meet their accommodation needs in the private rental market;  How to go about searching for a house, tenancy rules and regulations, dealing with landlords and real estate agents, bond.

• The PASS Program: (Assessment + 3 day Personal communication and Social Skills workshop)

Barriers: Cognitive deficits, interpersonal communication.

This program is for job seekers who have difficulty with interpersonal communication, goal setting, planning, decision making and activities of daily living due to any impairment in executive/cognitive functioning. The aim of the workshop is to teach and practice compensatory strategies which will increase employability and allow jobseekers with cognitive deficits to remain task focused and maintain employment opportunities once they have been placed into work.

• The Interact Program:

(5 day Workplace Communication, Mayer Key Competencies and Conflict Management Workshop.)

Barriers: Lack of recent workforce experience, confidence, motivation

This program is designed to assist job seekers likely to experience difficulty adjusting to the work environment, working as part of a team, handling organizational culture, dealing with conflict in the workplace. The focus of the program will be on the Mayer Key Competencies, a set of seven generic competencies common to all organizational environments as well as interpersonal communication, how to work with other people and manage conflict in the workplace. Part of the workshop is devoted to raising motivation, improving confidence and self esteem, and preparing/desensitizing jobseekers for their return to work.

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