Service types: Education and training, Employment support, Information & support, Kaupapa Māori, Pregnancy and parenting, Parenting education, Youth mentoring / development.

We can help you find a job or get into a training programme. That way, you can face the future with confidence.

Our services are free for youth under 20, living in the following areas: Franklin, Papakura, Manurewa, Manukau, Māngere, Ōtara, Papatoetoe, Ōtāhuhu, Onehunga, Ormiston, Botany, Howick, Pakuranga, Panmure, Glen Innes, Tamaki Maungakiekie or Orakei.

What you get :
At Solomon Group, we offer support, one-to-one attention, and plenty of help and coaching. We’re your main point of contact for working out what you’ll do when you leave school.

Our Youth Services include:

• Employment help
• Training programmes
• Help for young beneficiaries to get into education or training, manage finance and learn basic parenting skills
• Tupu Aotearoa - for young Pasifika from 15 years of age to help with training and employment

Which service suits you?:

• Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)
• Young Parent Payment / Youth Payment
• Tupu Aotearoa

Service types: Education and training, Employment support.

Read more about our education and training services

• Preparation for Employment
• ESOL Day Classes - Level 1 (English for speakers of other languages)
• Whānau Ara Mua (WAM) Certificate in Intergenerational Education - Level 2
• Pre-literate Community Day Courses - Level 0 and Level 1
• Literacy Community Night Classes - Level 0 to Level 3
• Computing for Employment

• Employment and Education Services include:

  • Employment coaching
  • ESOL
  • Health & Wellbeing level 2 & 3 
  • Contact Centre Operations
  • Class 2 learners licence classes
  • Trades training
  • Tupu Aotearoa - employment assistance and training for Pasifika people up to the age of 29