VACCHO’S RTO WINS VICTORIAN TRAINING AWARD

Aug 21, 2023

VACCHO is thrilled to have won the Community Training Provider of the Year at the 2023 Victorian Training Awards. 

VACCHO CEO Jill Gallagher AO (pictured above with VACCHO ETU Excutive Manager, Nean Tatnall) was honoured to accept the award during the ceremony on Friday 18 August.

VACCHO were nominated as a finalist for Community Training Provider of the Year alongside Bass Coast Adult Learning and Mountain District Learning Centre.

Congratulations to everyone for all of their hard work and for making our training program so valuable to our students. Big shout out to the training team and, of course, to all of the dedicated students.

VACCHO were nominated as a finalist for Community Training Provider of the Year alongside Bass Coast Adult Learning and Mountain District Learning Centre.

The award win was a thoroughly deserved recognition for VACCHO’s hard-working and dedicated training team, our Membership and highly engaged students.

VACCHO became a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in 1999, and by providing wraparound services, advocacy, and support to students throughout and beyond their training, have gone from strength to strength to become one of the largest Aboriginal training providers in Australia.

VACCHO’s Education Training Unit (ETU) students study a range of courses in a number of streams including Aboriginal Health, Business and Leadership, and Social & Emotional Wellbeing.

VACCHO’s training programs are designed to address the essential skills and knowledge required by industry, with graduates leaving VACCHO work ready or upskilled with a variety of opportunities for career development and enhancement

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Background 

VACCHO is the peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing in Victoria – the only one of its kind – with 33 Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations as Members. VACCHO Members support over 65,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Victoria, and combined are the largest employers of Aboriginal people in the state.