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Abstract:
The purpose of the research reported here is to investigate how pathways to employment and training opportunities in the Northern Territory can be created and improved for employment disadvantaged groups. This report contains the outcomes of the research project that spanned five months in 2004. During this time, a team of researchers from Charles Darwin University (CDU), working in close conjunction with the Northern Territory Council of Social Service (NTCOSS), Northern Territory Department of Employment, Education and Training (DEET) and the representative Steering Committee, conducted intensive literature reviews paralleled by interviews with representative clients, service providers, government agencies, advocacy and industry groups across the Northern Territory. Regional and rural areas were targeted, as well as the areas of higher population around Alice Springs and Darwin/Palmerston. Advice on all issues related to remote locations was sought from the relevant providers and agencies in those areas. The project is seen as a pilot that covers in detail only five of the nine identified areas of employment disadvantage. The five employment disadvantaged groups taking part in this study are: • Youth; • People with disabilities, including mental health; • Long term unemployed; • Mature aged people; and • People from a non-English speaking background
