Operation New Start Program - Youth Worker / Youth Facilitator ES1-3

Location Profile

Operation Newstart Casey (ONC) is one of the five Operation Newstart programs that currently operate within Victoria under the banner Operation Newstart Victoria (ONV). 

Commencing in 2008, ONC is an innovative life skill/adventure based innervation program working with students from ages 14-17 who are deemed to be at "educational risk". 

ONC functions as an Alternate Settings Program and is a collaboration between 9 Department of Education & Training (DET) Secondary Schools in Casey and Cardinia (Cranbourne East, Cranbourne, Edenbrook, Fountain Gate, Gleneagles, Hampton Park, Kambrya, Lyndhurst and Officer), YSAS and Headspace Narre Warren. 

Cranbourne East Secondary College is the "host' school for the program and "host" school for appointing staff for this program.  

Cranbourne East Secondary College (CESC), located in the Hunt Club Estate, adjacent to Cranbourne East Primary School and Marnebek School, was established in 2011. The College is in Cranbourne East, approximately 55 kilometers south-east from Melbourne CBD. 

The Cranbourne East community and cohort is very multicultural, with a significant number of students born overseas and coming from language backgrounds other than English. Students from refugee backgrounds make up approximately 5.4% of the entire cohort, EAL students 7.6%, and >1% of students are indigenous. The 2024 SFOE index is 0.4403.

As a Public Private Partnership school, we continue to experience rapid enrolment growth, with a year 7-12 enrolment exceeding 2100 students, and expected incremental growth over the next few years.

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