About Us
For the past twenty five years Bridging the Gap (BTG) has delivered employment, career development and training services through its partnerships with local community based organisations across the Perth to Peel region. Our vision is ‘To see communities where equality of opportunity is valued through enabling poor and disadvantaged people to overcome their problems’. With offices in Rockingham, Kwinana, Spearwood, Shenton Park, Mandurah and an award winning community nursery at Ngulla, BTG aims to develop and grow people and communities by providing caring and innovative lifelong learning and development opportunities and employment services.
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BTG has been firmly embedded in our local communities, providing a diverse range of Federal and State funded programmes. Annually over 4000 people access BTG’s range of employment and community services. Services that have and continue to be delivered include: Job Services Australia (JSA), Personal Support Program (PSP), Community Works Coordinator (CWC), Green Corps, Connections, Local Community Partnership (LCP) Regional Industry Careers Advisor (RICA), Employment Directions Network (EDN), Youth Connections (YC) as well as a range of specialist mental health programs and innovations such as the Careers Caravan, Career Development, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Crossing Point Leaders Academy (CPLA), Ngulla Community Nursery, Indigenous Employment Programme (IEP), Kwinana Families Project (KFP) and Growing toward Wellness.
Bridging the Gap has a track record of consistently achieving outcomes for our clients. With regards to our 3 major contracts BTG is currently in in top 10% of providers nationally for JSA delivery, top 5% nationally for National Green Jobs delivery and has the highest commencement and outcome rates for Youth Connections delivery in Western Australia.
Whilst BTG staff work within contracted guidelines and frameworks they are empowered and driven by the “whatever it takes” mentality. Whatever it takes to ensure that each client is given the time, resources and support they need to ensure that no matter where their starting point is they are able to work towards the ultimate goal of contributing back to the community through specialised activities or through employment. Clients are treated with a mindfulness of their individual circumstances, respect, empathy and cultural sensitivity.
Our CEO represents BTG on a wide variety of committees, advising on Government and Community Sector initiatives such as the South West Economic Development Committee. This group is comprised of key industry employers, local Government and community representatives commissioned by DEEWR to develop a regional workforce development plan. The plan aims to give an insight into the future directions and strategies being employed by the major players in local government, construction, tourism, manufacturing and retail industries in the region.
BTG has partnered with industry and educational sectors to develop culturally sensitive programs to skill and mentor all clients to successfully take advantage of employment opportunities. For example BTG has worked very closely and has partnered with the Medina Aboriginal Cultural Community, Peet Limited, Town of Kwinana and BHP (Nickel West) to open Ngulla Nursery providing hands-on education and training to a range of young people including the indigenous. In partnership with Murray House, certificate courses in skill gap areas of horticulture and Conservation and Land Management have been delivered in conjunction with National Green Jobs projects.
