Grow Our Own

Written By Cristy Houghton
 
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[ WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR REGION TO]

  • Retain young people?

  • Develop workplace skills at higher levels?

  • Enable employers to support young people?

  • Maintain sustainable economic growth?

    GROW OUR OWN

 

Grow Our Own is an industry led and RDA Riverina coordinated network that connects everyone working in the western Riverina workforce development, education, and training sector.

The Grow Our Own partnership has been successful in establishing a recognisable brand that advocates for workforce issues, connects people and business and develops and supports learning pathways into local careers with the view of encouraging people to live, learn and earn locally. The program connects and integrates business, industry, education, and employment sectors.

 
 
Image of project Officer Marg Couch speak with a student whose at the Leeton careers expo in 2021.

Grow Our Own aims to encourage people to build a career while living locally and to encourage local business to invest in local people employment, training, mentoring and motivation for sustainability and future expansion.

The industry led steering committee provides the direction with the support of stakeholders to :

  • Foster an integrated approach across education, business, government, and community for careers education & planning.

  • Explore ways to assist cultural groups to achieve their educational aspiration.

  • Enable integrated workforce planning for industry and pathway information to reach students and families in time for annual decision making.

  • Build local awareness of local pathways into growth industries (and pathways support such as scholarships, Work Integrated Learning, and cadetships.

  • Increase alignment between education provision and local industry need.

  • Maintain a solid regional education and industry network that is collaborative, progressive, and responsive to the changing industry needs of the region.

Contact for inquiries:
Marg Couch: po@rdariverina.org.au
RDA Riverina Senior Project Officer

 

Steering Committee

 

Supporters

Cristy Houghton

Cristy's unique career has taken her from country NSW to the city lights of Clarendon Street South Melbourne and back again. With an early career in radio as a copywriter and creative strategist, she is now a Jill of all trades as a graphic designer, website builder, blog writer, video editor, social media manager, marketing strategist and more. 

In fact, give her any task and this chick will figure out how to do it! Go on, we dare you!

No, really, we DARE you!!

Cristy has won two Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAs) for Best Ad and Best Sales Promotion, and even has an 'Employee of the Year' certificate with her name on it.

Cristy and her husband James have traveled extensively through Russia, China and South East Asia, and have two fur-babies, Sooty (cat) and Panda (puppy). Cristy loves drinking coffee, meeting people to drink coffee, coffee tasting and coffee flavoured cocktails. She also enjoys road trips, TED Talks and watching cat videos on youtube.

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