Real Futures are leaders in employment services

The organisation delivers proven programs that empower people by supporting their ideas, energy and ability.

Real Futures are Australia’s first National Vocational training and Support Centre (VTEC) and we have just opened their first Disability Employment Service (DES) in Kempsey, Coffs Harbour and Geraldton.

The National Offices are now located across NSW, NT and WA with the headquarters for Real Change starting in Kempsey.

The staff are 80 per cent Aboriginal who have strong connections to community and the passion and expertise to create employment opportunities for Aboriginal peoples required to help close the economic gap between Aboriginal and non Aboriginal Australia.

Real Futures believes that embracing and driving home the possibilities created by the right information, training and employment for Aboriginal people creates a strong and steady flow-on effect for everyone involved.

This empowerment changes the lives of individuals, their families, their Communities, and their Nations - it also changes the lives of non-Aboriginal people as they engage with those who have come on board in their workplace pushed together by a common desire to do better.

Many Australian businesses are realising the benefits of pro-actively engaging with Aboriginal people by supporting pathways to meaningful, long-term employment and thereby becoming an employer of choice. Employers of choice know that benefits include: access to a local labour force of job ready and talented people, increased marketing spectrum, increased opportunities to tender for government and corporate contracts, closing skills gaps, meeting corporate social responsibilities, higher retention rates, expanding the knowledge and capability of existing non-Aboriginal employees, creating culturally diverse workplaces that are inclusive and dynamic, and enhancing social and economic change in Aboriginal communities.

The Federal and State government procurement initiatives will help us on our journey and we will be the conduit to make things happen for our aspirants.

“Our aspirants are living examples of Real Futures investment,” Wendy Yarnold Real Futures CEO said. 

“New opportunities are created by their success and our capacity to establish labour markets, where previously, there were none because it was sometimes “too hard” for employers to engage and grow an Aboriginal workforce.”

“We are excited watching our initiatives develop and the economic and social impact it is having in our communities, empowering our people through financial freedom, transferable skills and links to assistance to consolidate debt, finance a car or a home or finally to able to able to afford to tie the knot.”

Even more amazing that Real Futures, have won a contract to deliver Disability Employment Services for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Kempsey, Nambucca, Coffs Harbour, Dorrigo and Western Australia.

The team at Real Futures will be working with the new DES staff who have now completed full time training for the opening of the service at the start of July. If you have a disability and you want to work please call or drop in, meet Kellie in Kempsey and the rest of the team and Real Futures will get you on the path to a real job.

“We don’t muck around,” Kellie said. 

“If you want to work or you need to talk about where you are at in your journey, you can come and register with Real Futures or DES. 

“We want to make your experiences positive and always moving toward your goals.

“We want to work with you to link opportunity to potential.”

Real Futures activities have always been innovative searching for and applying best practice to recruit, train and retain our people in industry. Real Futures flagship company Pathways to the Pilbara quickly became one of the top 5 providers for Aboriginal employment and support in the country.

It was testament to Real Futures application of a process which provided essential resource sector skills and life cycle skills to the Aboriginal communities that were affected by mining so that they could participate in this emerging and booming economy. We have a relatively untapped resource of people who have survived thousands of years by making the most of every situation. Real Futures people are resilient, inventive and astute.

Real Futures well established successful model has been duplicated across Australia with firm respected relationships from employers.

The model is based on an underpinning philosophy all about mutual respect where workplaces and lives are enriched by employing a First Australian.

To think Real Futures started in a booth at Lou’s Café in Belgrave St seven years ago and the dedication of Wendy Yarnold and Brad Carbutt to grow a National Team of awesome Employment Development Specialists, lead by a champion National Operations Manager has attracted the interest of large corporates and now have joint ownership with Nyungga  Warren Mundine and Angus Knight the company is bound for success and have indeed created a Real Future with its birthplace on Dunghutti Country in Kempsey.