Skills Assure Funding (QLD)

Career Start Funding

The Career Start program is a Queensland Government training initiative, funded by the Queensland Government.

Are you an eligible individual looking to gain new skills and increase your employability? The Career Start supports you to do just that! This program provides financial assistance for eligible individuals to complete their first post-school Certificate III level qualification, so you can get ahead in your career and move into a better future.

Are you Eligible?

To access subsidised training places under Career Start, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

• be a Queensland resident
• be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school
• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency.
• not hold a certificate Ill level or higher qualification completed within the last 10 years (qualifications completed as a school student and foundation skills qualifications do not count)
• Not be enrolled in another qualification

Co-Contribution Fees

A contribution to the cost of training and assessment services — called a co-contribution fee — must be made by students undertaking a certificate III level vocational qualifications, skill sets and non-concessional students undertaking lower level qualifications.

The only exceptions to the fee condition are:

• ​SQW participants — this training is provided fee-free to students with any additional costs met through SQW funding

Community Work Skills

(part of Skilling Queenslanders for Work)

Community Work Skills is one of seven programs that make up the Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative. The program offers tailored assistance to disadvantaged Queenslanders, enabling them to gain nationally recognised skills and vocational qualifications up to a certificate III level.

Community Work Skills complements the Certificate 3 Guarantee; Queensland’s training entitlement program, by providing supported training places. Industry and local employers will be engaged to determine what industry specific vocational training and new and existing labour is required to meet local employment demands.

Community Work Skills primarily targets Queensland residents and at no cost to participants.

This program is for Queensland residents who either:

• Are ineligible for Australian Government employment services or assistance, or
• Require complementary services because they have significant barriers to learning and employment, or
• Have accessed Australian Government services for more than six months and remain unemployed.

For more information about Community Work Skills, please click on this link

Are you eligible?

To be eligible, disadvantaged Queenslanders must also be:

• Aged 15 years or older and no longer at school
• An Australian citizen, Australian permanent resident (includes humanitarian entrant), temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency, or a New Zealand citizen.

Existing or prior qualifications are not a requirement, as Community Work Skills provides a second chance for participants to retrain and gain new qualifications.

Career Boost Funding

The Career Boost provides a government subsidy to support eligible individuals to complete their first Career Boost qualification.

The Career Boost program is designed to provide access to subsidised training in selected qualifications, and priority skill sets. This training subsidy will help offset the cost of a Certificate IV or higher course so that Queenslanders can gain advanced skills to secure employment or further their careers

Are you Eligible?

To access subsidised training places under Career Boost, prospective students must meet the following criteria:

• be a Queensland resident
• be aged 15 years or over, and no longer at school
• be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or Australian permanent resident (including humanitarian entrants), or a temporary resident with the necessary visa and work permits on the pathway to permanent residency.
• not hold a certificate IV level or higher qualification completed within the last 10 years ( qualifications completed as a school student and foundation skills qualifications do not count)
• Not be enrolled in another qualification

Courses funded

• CHC43121 Certificate IV in Disability Support – students must already hold the Certificate III in Individual Support
• CHC43315 Certificate IV in Mental Health
• CHC43515 Certificate IV in Mental Health Peer Work
• CHCSS00070 Assist Clients with Medication Skill Set

Co-Contribution Fees

A contribution to the cost of training and assessment services — called a co-contribution fee — must be made by students undertaking a certificate IV level or higher qualifications, as well as skill sets.

The only exceptions to the fee condition are:

• ​SQW participants — this training is provided fee-free to students with any additional costs met through SQW funding