Built by Indigenous business and community, Potential First Pathways walks alongside young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from their first day to a career, a crew and a future they shape themselves.
Too many programs start with what a young person lacks. We start with who they are and who they’re becoming.
Most young people who come to Pathways have been let down by systems that saw their circumstances before they saw their potential. We do it differently. We meet them where they are, build the trust that’s been missing and back them with the relationships, the mentoring and the real work that lets them grow.
Most employment programs train a young person and send them into a standard workplace, then wonder why it doesn't stick.
Pathways works on both sides. As an Aboriginal-owned business, we walk alongside the young person and build the workplace around them, with mentoring, cultural safety and leadership that knows how to hold someone, not just employ them. That's how young people grow into real work, real responsibility and the kind of confidence that lasts.
Potential First Pathways creates culturally safe environments with the conditions our young people need.
To mentors, to community and a team that has your back.
A place where you show up as yourself, not a version of yourself.
Learning on the job, earning a real wage and taking on real responsibility from day one.
Into leadership, into a career, into mentoring the next person through their journey.
Since 2023, Potential First Pathways has walked alongside more than 100 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and counting. The measure that matters isn’t how many start. It’s how many are still standing, still growing, twelve months on.
After struggling to find his place in the education system and leaving school in Year 11, Tyson wasn't sure what came next.
Everything changed when his Aunty Jolene encouraged him to join Potential First Pathways. Tyson completed training, secured work with Young Guns and gained his forklift certificate. Today, he's continuing to build a career and develop his leadership skills.
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Ready to find out what Pathways could mean for you? You don’t need experience or qualifications. You just need a willingness to show up and we’ll back the rest.
Pathways isn’t charity - it’s how we build engaged, stable, high-performing crews. Partner with us to create real employment for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and bring the Young Guns model into your operation.
