The Inter-Agency Career Guidance Working Group (Cedefop, European Commission, ETF, ILO, OECD, UNESCO, and World Bank) is organising the second Global Careers Month, taking place in November 2025.
The objectives of Global Careers Month 2025 are to:
- Raise awareness about the role and importance of effective career guidance to enable access to decent work and careers and support equitable and sustainable social and economic development
- Identify shared challenges to the development of career guidance systems as well specificities linked to local contexts
- Showcase high quality innovative solutions for successful career guidance and to promote career development support in diverse contexts and for learners at different stages in their educational and career pathways
Combining vocational and mental health support services for youth builds hope and improves mental wellbeing.
Headspace National Youth Mental Health Foundation supports the mental health and wellbeing of young people aged 12–25 through face-to-face centres, online services, and phone support. Headspace services include vocational supports which helps over 6000 young people each year with their work and study goals while also supporting their mental health.
On November 25, the Australian Centre for Career Education hosted a panel discussion featuring senior Headspace staff and one of their youth clients to understand how vocational services have provided hope.
The discussion included their latest research on the benefits of Integrated Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in overcoming educational/vocational challenges and improving mental wellbeing.
- headspace - headspace.org.au
- Mental Health Outcomes for Young People Accessing Individual Placement Support Services: A Cohort Study - doi.org/10.1177/21501319241296786
- Individual Placement and Support (IPS) - ipsworks.org
For Work and Study online support visit headspace.org.au/services/work-and-study-support
If you are interested in partnering with headspace, email Carolyn Watts: cwatts@headspace.org.au