Navigator Program

Navigator works intensively with young people, families, schools and support networks to help young people overcome barriers and expand opportunities to successfully re-engage with a learning pathway.

Navigator provides case management and intensive outreach to young people. Their team assists each young person to create their own education re-engagement plan that:

• expresses individual goals
• addresses specific barriers to education
• responds to issues underlying non-attendance
• Involves and works restoratively with families, carers, schools and community supports

A young person must be eligible to participate in Navigator. To be eligible, a young person must meet the following criteria:

1. be 12 to 17 years of age (inclusive)
2. be enrolled in, or intend to enrol in a Victorian education setting (including non-government schools)
3. have attended 30% or less of the previous school term, or equivalent, or not be attending an education setting at all or
4. be 10 to 11 years of age and study or intend to study in the department areas of Bayside Peninsula, Hume Merri-bek, Loddon Campaspe and Western Melbourne (the Navigator Program is being piloted for a younger cohort. Referrals for young people aged 10 to 11 in these areas who also meet the criteria b and c can be submitted via the online referral form).

This is a free service.