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Newsletter for
apprentices | 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
- Reaching remote learners – West Coast Wananga boosts apprentice engagement
- Could a Diploma 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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Support and advice for apprentices
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IMPORTANT - only submit one task at a time
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Achieve Study Hubs: Drop in, study, achieve
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Please remember, when completing your apprenticeship assessments, it is important that you ONLY submit ONE task within a module for marking at a time. Feel free to work on other tasks, but please don’t submit these until the first task has been assessed. This is because we need to give you feedback to help guide you, before you move forward to the next one.
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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.
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 a Diploma be the next
step for you?
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Have you considered
what you'd like to do when you finish your current apprenticeship programme? Are you keen to broaden your knowledge via further work-based learning programmes? It's never too early to think about what to study next.
For those of you coming to the end of your Level 4 Apprenticeship, this is a good time to consider if a Level 5 Diploma is the next step for you.
The Level 5 Diplomas we offer are:
- The Diploma in Business (Leadership and Management) Level 5 >>More
- The Diploma in Health and Wellbeing (Applied Practice) Level 5, offered in 14 different specialisations/contexts: >>More
Contact your Apprenticeship Advisor if you'd like to chat about what to do next.
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“You’re not out there on your own. You’ve got the support of a Careerforce person all the time. The assessor coaches you along. You also don’t have the strict, structured time limit as such.”
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“The programme reinforced what I knew. But it also made me think of things differently. It made me much more aware of others and our different learning styles”.
Diploma in Business (Leadership and Management) Level 5 graduate Karen Macilquham
Read Karen's story
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Are you missing out? Join the Careerforce Apprenticeship Facebook Group
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The Careerforce Apprenticeship Facebook Group is a space for you to share your apprenticeship experiences, challenges and successes and to brainstorm solutions with your peers. The group is just for Careerforce enrolled apprentices. Whether you’re just starting or are well into your apprenticeship, this group is a great option for extra support.
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Popular links and resources
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- Wellbeing Support for Learners >>More
- Training Support Page >> More
- Access your own training progress report via iportal >>More
- Aka Toi >>More
- Free Counselling to all Careerforce learners >>More
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