SMYL Community Services has provided, education, employment, training and community services to employers, jobseekers and the community since 1983.

SMYL has:

• Delivered over 1 000 000 student contact training hours.
• Delivered career guidance to more than 10,000 people.
• Placed more than 5000 people into employment.
• Assisted more than 5000 people into education and further training.
• Employed more than 3000 trainees and apprentices.
• Been the Registered Training Organisation for more than 2000 trainees and apprentices.
• Delivered 100 000 training hours to Indigenous people in remote & isolated communities.
• Contacted and assisted more than 30 000 school students.
• Managed school based traineeships for more than 1200 trainees.

Some of SMYL’s Achievements over the last 20 years:

Piloted:

• School Based Traineeships in Western Australia.
• Pioneered Plant Operator Traineeshiops.
• Aboriginal School Based Traineeships.
• Innovative building and construction projects in the Kimberley for indigenous communities.
• FAST TRACK—the first nationally accredited competency based program incorporating Finn and Meyer competencies. FAST TRACK was the pre cursor to the current VET in Schools agenda.
• Developments in partnership with Murdoch University, the indigenous Catholic Education stream that is now delivered as part of the general curriculum in all Catholic schools.

Other Achievements:

• Winner of 2007 - Access & Equity Award.
• Finalist of 2007 "Innovation" National Award Training.
• Implemented and developed the first Youth Work Traineeship in WA.
• Achieved 90% successful outcomes in School Based Engineering Traineeships.
• Initiated Apprenticeship employment for people with disabilities.
• Introduced new Traineeships to WA - Customs Broking, Childcare and Youth Work.
• First employer and RTO in Western Australia to implement the Personal Carer Traineeship in the health industry.