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Newsletter for learners | July 2025
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In this issue:- Win a Digital Prize Pack valued at $2,460
- Stepping up – from shoe sales to shaping rangatahi futures
- FREE additional support for dementia care learners
- Could an apprenticeship be the next step for you?
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❄️ Winter wellness tips with Te Whare Tapa Whā
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The Te Whare Tapa Wha model represents wellbeing as a wharenui (meeting house) with four walls: taha tinana (physical), taha wairua (spiritual), taha whānau (family/social), and taha hinengaro (mental/emotional) with
a foundation of te taiao (the environment).
Here's a few tips to help you stay well through the colder months and take care of your body and mind.
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Taha tinana - Physical wellbeing
- Prioritise healthy eating habits
- Stay hydrated
- Keep active – even light activity improves energy and mood
- Wrap up warm, get enough rest
Taha hinengaro – Mental and emotional wellbeing
- Take a moment to notice how you’re feeling
- Take steps to reduce stress - try mindfulness, deep breathing
- Limit screen time especially endlessly scrolling negative news
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Taha wairua – Spiritual wellbeing
- Reflect on what’s important to you
- Make
time for things that you enjoy
Taha whānau – Social wellbeing- Connection matters - keep in touch with friends, whānau and colleagues especially in winter
- Reach out to others when you need support, or someone to talk to
Te taiao – The
environment- Ensure you have a healthy workspace with lots of natural light if you can
- Get outside into nature when you can – wrap up well, even short walks in the fresh air can help
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Win a Digital Prize Pack valued at $2,460
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Your learner wellbeing is important to us. We value your feedback
To help us improve the wellbeing support we offer to all our learners, we’re again running a short three-minute wellbeing
survey.
We are sending all Careerforce learners this short survey on behalf of
Te Pūkenga’s Learner Journey and Experience team. This bi-annual survey aims to monitor learner wellbeing across the country, and is completely anonymous so no-one will be able to link your responses to you.
If you complete the survey before 12 noon Friday 25 July 2025, you can enter a prize draw to win a Digital Prize Pack valued at approximately $2,460 containing an HP Pavilion 16" Laptop, Targus Cypress 15.6 Hero backpack - Grey, Technics EAH-A800 Wireless Noise Cancelling Over-Ear Headphones - Black and Logitech G309 Lightspeed Gaming Mouse by clicking on a separate link to the prize draw form.
Thank you to those of you who have already completed the survey.
To start the survey, please click on the
link below.
Learner Wellbeing Survey One 2025
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Stepping up – from shoe sales to shaping rangatahi futures
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Ebony Poutu was content in her role in shoe retail until a video about youth work opened her eyes to a new career path.
Ebony is now a Driving School Coordinator at Youth Inspire and is working towards her New Zealand Apprenticeship in Youth Work through Careerforce. In her role as Driving School Coordinator, Ebony is responsible for helping rangatahi to achieve their learner, restricted and
full driving licences. She finds her role deeply rewarding,
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“You can see the long-term effects not only on the individuals, but on their whānau and community as well. So even though it feels like we’ve only got this short time with them, that impact can have very lasting outcomes”.
Ebony is part of a cohort of staff at her workplace all working towards their Level 4 Youth Work Apprenticeship.
Read more about Ebony's story >
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"Talk to your colleagues who are also doing the study, brainstorm ideas and talk to each other. It can really help with getting the mahi done :)."
[tip from a Careerforce learner]
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Over 700 learners supported with Manaaki Fund
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Applications for the Manaaki Fund have now closed.
The Careerforce Manaaki Fund was established In March 2024 to provide temporary financial assistance for learners who were facing unexpected financial hardship that was impacting their studies.
Careerforce is pleased to have been able to support over 700 learners with payments of $400 each to provide temporary
financial assistance.
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"Just wanted to appreciate the assistance that I've received and it's an honour to say a big thank-you to the wonderful support that the team has offered to me and the rest of the care support team who also received the funding. Thank you so much."
Manaaki Fund recipient
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FREE additional support for Dementia Care learners
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To support the success of all Level 4 Dementia Care learners, our national dementia training facilitators are providing a series of
online sessions from July through to October.
These sessions are designed to reinforce learners’ understanding and help you confidently complete your assessments. Each session focuses on one specific assessment task, allowing learners to attend only the sessions related to the modules you need help with.
We have scheduled both morning and evening options to accommodate varying shift patterns. See the website for a schedule of upcoming sessions. These sessions are available nationally to all our Careerforce dementia care learners. You are
invited to join any of the sessions that interest you. Please note that you DO NOT have to pre-register for these sessions, simply join online on the day.
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Support for you as a learner
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New learners can kickstart your learning
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Achieve Study Hubs: Drop in, study, achieve
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Learners who are new to Careerforce are strongly encouraged to attend a 'Good To Go' online onboarding session. These sessions for Level 2 & 3 learners, and Level 4 Dementia Care (LCP) and Advanced Care and Support learners, give an introduction to Careerforce, work-based learning, and how to get started. New enrollees should check your inbox for an invitation to the next events on 30 July 2025.There sessions are throughout the day giving you flexibility to choose a time that suits. At these sessions, you can simply watch and listen. You only need to participate if you feel comfortable to do so.
If you enrolled some time ago, but haven’t yet made a start on your training, you are also welcome to attend these
sessions.
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Do you need extra support with your training programme? Our Achieve Study Hubs are face-to-face sessions where you can drop in, ask questions, meet with other learners, and receive help with your learning. See the full schedule on our website. To register, RSVP by completing the online form on our website.
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Support for Māori and Pacific learners
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We provide kanohi-ki-te-kanohi (face-to-face) kaupapa Māori approach support through wānanga mahi and noho marae.
Check out the schedule
We also run Talanoa (study support sessions), and face-to-face and online Fono (workshops).
Check out the schedule
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Reaching remote learners – West Coast Wananga boosts apprentice engagement
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“The West Coast is a unique
environment,” says Cath Jennings, a Workplace Advisor at Careerforce.
“It’s quite isolated. Workers are spread out and public transport isn’t always available, which can make access to learning support more difficult.”
Cath and her colleague Steve Peseta, an Apprenticeship Advisor, work for Careerforce. Since 2024, the Christchurch-based duo made a concerted effort to provide more hands-on support to their learners, including those completing apprenticeship programmes.
Careerforce work-based apprenticeships typically span 21 months, with most learning and assessment done online via the Careerforce learning platform. But Cath and Steve saw the need for extra face-to-face support.
“We started running 1-2 day wānanga across the West Coast, to get learners more actively engaged and help them progress through their programme modules,” Cath explains.
With the success of wānanga for apprentices, Cath and Steve have now started
running 3-4 hour wānanga for Level 3 Youth Work learners. “It’s about listening to the organisations and the ākonga (learners) we support and meeting their needs,” says Cath.
Photos: Left - Shelley Mills, Hauora Manager at Poutini Waiora with PACT Support Worker/apprentice Margareta Lestari, at a West Coast Careerforce wānanga. Right -Kaiāwhina Support Worker at Poutini Waiora/Apprentice Matt Bell at a Careerforce wānanga
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Free wellbeing support for Careerforce learners
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If you’re finding things tough — whether it’s stress, health worries, money pressures, or whānau challenges — we’re here to help.
Our friendly Wellbeing Advisors offer confidential
support via phone, text, email, Teams, or in-person (location dependent).
Reach out anytime. Talk to your assessor or complete the referral form on our website to connect.
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"Make sure to manage your time, and read through the questions to fully understand the work before attempting the assessments."
[tip from a Careerforce learner]
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Don’t miss important emails – check your spam folder
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Just a reminder to please check your spam or junk email folder regularly, especially if you're expecting messages from us or another trusted source.
Sometimes legitimate emails can be mistakenly filtered into these folders. If you do find any messages from Careerforce in there, we recommend marking the email as “Not Spam” or “Not
Junk” and adding our email address to your safe senders list to make sure you don’t miss anything important.
Careerforce send regular emails from noreply@careerforce.org.nz and
no-reply@careerforce.org.nz
See instructions below:
Gmail
- Open your Spam or Junk folder.
- Find the email and click “Not spam” at the top.
- To ensure future emails go to your
inbox:
- Click the three dots (⋮) in the top right corner of the email.
- Select “Filter messages like these”.
- Click Create filter, then tick “Never send it to Spam”.
- Click Create filter again.
Outlook
- Highlight the email in the Junk folder
- Select ‘Not junk’ from the ribbon
- A message confirms that the email address will be added to Safe Senders.
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"Do a little bit as often as you can. It can be hard to find time to lock in a few hours of study each week, but it can be much easier to do 15 mins here and there when you have the time."
[tip from a Careerforce learner]
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Where to from here?
Could an apprenticeship be the
next step for you?
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Have you considered what you'd like to do when you finish your current programme? Are you keen to broaden your knowledge via further work-based learning programmes?
For those of you coming to the end of your Level 3 programme, this is a good time to consider if a Level 4 Apprenticeship is the next step for you.
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We're offering 50% off the enrolment fees for these two apprenticeship programmes until 31 July 2025.
>The Apprenticeship in Disability Support
>The Apprenticeship in Brain Injury Rehabilitation Support
We're also offering 50% off the enrolment fees for the following Programme over July and August 2025
>The Apprenticeship in Primary Care Practice Assistance
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Or, check these out:
Graduates of the Level 3 Health Assistance programme may wish to consider - The Advanced Care and Support Apprenticeship
- The Apprenticeship in Diversional Therapy
Graduates of the Level 3 Support Work and Support Work - Disability programmes may also wish to consider
- The Apprenticeship in Whānau, Community and Social
Services
- The Apprenticeship in Peer Support (free enrolment for eligible learners to June 2026)
Graduates of the Level 3 in Youth Work may wish to consider
- The Apprenticeship in Youth Work
Your employer may also be eligible for $500/mth Apprenticeship Boost payments for the first 12 months of the apprenticeship.
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Popular links and resources
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- Wellbeing Support for Learners >>More
- Training Support Page >> More
- Careerforce Library via iportal >>More
- Access your own training progress report via iportal >>More
- Aka Toi >>More
- Free Counselling to all Careerforce learners >>More
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