Courses
At the Alexandra Community Hub a range of courses are offered, these often fall into one of the following categories:
ACCREDITED COURSES (RTO)
Alexandra Community Hub Recognised Training Organisation no: 3730
As Alexandra Community Hub is a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) and works in partnership with other RTO's (Swinburne & GOTAFE).
Accreditation means the course is nationally recognised and that a registered training organisation (RTO) can issue a nationally recognised qualification or Statement of Attainment following its full or partial completion.
An accredited course:
- Meets industry, enterprise or community needs
- Provides appropriate competency outcomes and a satisfactory basis for assessment
- Meets national quality assurance requirements
- Is aligned to the appropriate level of the Australian Qualifications Framework where it leads to a qualification.
Once a course has been accredited, it is listed on the National Training Information Service website. You can use this website to check if a course is accredited by typing in the course code.
Your Unique Student Identifier (USI) is your individual education number for life. It also creates a Government authenticated record of your vocational education and training (VET) achievements.
You will require a Unique Student Number (USI) for enrolment when studying nationally recognised Vocational Education and Training (VET).
To obtain or check your USI number please visit www.usi.gov.au/students or call 1300 857 536 for assistance.
PRE-ACCREDITED COURSES
(Learn Local)
As an independent community based organisation Alexandra Community Hub is a Learn Local facility providing providing Pre-Accredited Courses.
To deliver pre-accredited training, Alexandra Community Hub is registered with the Adult, Community and Further Education (ACFE) Board. The quality and structure of all pre-accredited programs is regularly reviewed by the ACFE Board.
These courses and programs are designed to help learners go on to further study or gain the confidence and skills needed to look for a job. They include courses in communication, job search skills, getting ready to go back to work, literacy and numeracy and more. Learners can consider undertaking a pre-employment course to assist in seeking and improving employment skills. Topic include and are not limited to:
- Improve digital literacy and computer skills
- Improve reading, writing and math skills
- Access English language classes
- Improve financial literacy skills
- Return to study and gain a qualification
Get started with a pre-accredited program today!
For employers, as a Learn Local provider Alexandra Community Hub, can deliver courses that will upgrade the employment skills of both your existing and new workforce. Including:
- Industry specific training across a wide range of sectors (including health, disability, retail, tourism, hospitality, construction, trades, business, horticulture, beauty plus many more)
- Digital literacy training
- Language, literacy and numeracy assistance
- English language classes
- Financial literacy assistance
- Occupational Health and Safety
If you would like to find out more about how your business can work with our Learn Local program to deliver training programs to suit your business please contact us on 5772 1238 or email admin@alexhub.com.au
In addition to education and training programs, as a Learn Local the Alexandra Community Hub also delivers a range of other services for our community. Visit the services section for more information.
Throughout the year Alexandra Community Hub, offers courses that will provide learners with further employability skills and specific industry base skills.
Employablity skills, are those general skills that are needed to obtain a job or are used in most jobs, such as;
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Problem solving
- Initiative and enterprise
- Planning and organising
- Self-management
- Learning
- Technology
Work based skills, are those that are needed by a specific industry in the job, such as;
- A white card for employees of the construction industry
- Introduction to welding for people looking at working areas of the engineering sector
- Barista for those that want to work in a cafe or catering business in the hospitality industry
Introduction to Age Care
If you thinking about a future in Aged Care & want to learn more about the possibilities in this industry this course is ideal for you.
This 40 hour course will be delivered face to face and is designed to support you into accredited aged care programs & employment.
Topics Include:
- Working in aged care
- Safety basics
- What is individual support?
- Documents and records
- Progress notes
- Healthy eating
- Body systems
- Quality in aged care
- Valuing difference
- Revision and pathways
Digital Essentials
Learn how to use technology to benefit you.
In this 6-week course we are here to teach, guide and support you on your journey into the digital world and move with the times.
We will also supply the equipment for this course if you do not yet have any devices of your own.
You will learn how to;
- Building email skills
- Creating in Word
- Finding information online
- Being Social online
- Managing information
- Connecting to devices
- Being safe and secure
- Everyday technology – online shopping, finding a destination, government websites
Barista Basics
Love Coffee and want to make a good coffee for work or at home?
This 5-hour course is for you, you will learn how to make and serve coffee on a commercial coffee machine.
You will learn how to;
- Coffee station setup and organisation
- Setting the grind
- Taking espresso orders
- Extracting espresso
- monitoring quality
- Serving hot & cold espresso beverages
- Milk texturing process
- Basic latte art
- Cleaning espresso equipment
Register your interest in these courses/training options
COMMUNITY COURSES & PROGRAMS
Alexandra Community Hub is a funded Neighborhood House offering a host of community services, courses and programs.
Community Courses are designed to bring people together to connect, learn and contribute in our local community through social, educational, recreational and support activities, by using a unique community development approach. Community development starts by identifying and addressing our communities needs. Like all communities we have existing strengths and assets that can be part of the solution. People from all walks of life are welcome. These courses and programs are inclusive and aim to create opportunities for individuals and groups, to enrich lives through connections that might not otherwise take place, to strengthen networks and building social capital.
To meet the needs of our local community Alexandra Community Hub hosts subsidised services, courses and programs which;
- Involve the community and encouraging participation and inclusion, and valuing diversity and difference at all levels of neighbourhood house operation
- Identify community needs and aspirations
- Determine appropriate community programs, activities and services in response to those needs, ensuring that diversity and difference are valued
- Partner with community organisations, businesses, government and philanthropic organisations to secure appropriate funding and support
- Deliver quality programs, activities and services
- Evaluate the effectiveness of all aspects of neighbourhood house operations, including programs, practice and governance.
What is Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga Yoga is the yoga of eight limbs, not limited to the postures and breathwork.
Eight limbs defined by Maharshi Patanjali are –
1. Yama (Restraints)
2. Niyama (Observances)
3. Asana (Postures)
4. Pranayama (Regulation of Breath)
5. Pratyahara (Withholding of senses)
6. Dharana (Concentration/Fixity)
7. Dhyana (Meditation/Contemplation)
8. Samadhi (Absolute Concentration/Oneness with the self).
- “Asana” the third limb of Ashtanga regulates body rhythms and enables a deeper understanding of the body and its correlation with the breath and mind.
- “Pranayama” the fourth limb of Ashtanga. ‘Prana’ means Breath or Vital Force and ‘Ayam’ means Control or regulation. Therefore, pranayama means conscious regulation of breath to manage the mind-body complex through external processes of breathing i.e., Inhalation, Holding of breath, Exhalation, and Suspension of breath.
Maharshi Patanjali has defined yoga as “Yogaschittavrittinirodha” which means stoppage of fluctuations or modifications of the mind.
The first five limbs of Ashtanga work on the external observable aspects of personality such as physical body posture, breathing, use of our senses and our individual and social relationship.
The last three limbs work on improving mental and emotional state and internal processes which cannot be seen but can only be experienced by oneself.
What is MULADHARA?
At Muladhara, the main objective is to develop a deeper connection with the body in which one feels safe through basic body movements, breath-movement alignment, and conscious relaxation techniques.
What do we practice at Muladhara?
- Basic body movements
- Static Asanas
- Dynamic Asanas
- Pranayama (Breathwork)
- Kriyas
- Facial Yoga
- Conscious Relaxation
- Chair Yoga
Who can join?
- Healthy Adult (with minor ailments)
- Age group -13years-70years
- Beginners (with no prior experience in Yoga)
- People with no experience in exercise
What to bring for a session?
- Yoga mat
- Microfiber towel
- Water Bottle
- Wear comfortable and breathable clothing
- Your mind and body
Duration of each session
- 1hour
What is Chatty Cafe?
Join us and “Have a Chat”. Chatty Café table brings people together.
All are welcome to join the Chatty Café table. A place where you are welcome, a space socially safe and in a comfortable location for a friendly chat – for a few minutes or longer -whatever suits works best for you!
Free tea and coffee are provided, and sometimes Barista made coffee and tasty treats are available too!
This is the time and space for you to get or keep connected with other community members…… everyone is invited! If you’re on your own, in a couple, with a friend, if you’re a carer why not sit there with who you care for, mums and babies, dads and babies, grandparents and babies, young people, older people, and anyone in between!
Why join in and why encourage someone else to come too?….. Chatting is such a simple concept but so important for our mental and physical health. Loneliness can seriously impact a person’s sense of well-being and cause a range of disorders including anxiety and depression. Having a chat with others in your local community can really brighten your or someone else’s day. It can create new friendships and social connections and is a great way to find out what is available in the community if you are new to the area.
Alexandra Play Group
Meets every Tuesday & Friday 9:30am - 11am in the courtroom and court yard of Alexandra Community Hub.
Hosting a relaxed environment where mums, dads, grandparents, care givers, children and babies can meet, chat and play. A fun time with lots of free play open to all pre-school children and their caregivers.
There is no leader, everyone looks after their own child/children and arrives and leaves at whatever time best suits them during the session time.
You and your child choose where you want to play. If you’ve had enough of one activity, just move to another.
Play, talk and interact with other adults and children.
Each group can develop its own culture – organise a shared snack time, run a story time, do a group craft activity.
Cost Donation appreciated.
For more information please visit Alexandra PlayGroup Facebook page or contact alexandraplaygroup@gmail.com or call 0422 787 132.
What is the HungryMinds Club?
You might have enrolled your child in a Footy, Soccer, Netball or Cricket club through which they will have fun, learn a bit (or a lot), and perhaps realise their potential as a star player. How would you feel about getting your child involved in a similar activity in critical thinking based on simple math and science that they are taught anyway?
Someplace where interested kids get together, have a go at fun, fundamental problems and skills involving thinking. An atmosphere as supportive as at a sports club, (Parents can come along, cheer or encourage?) a place where it is cool to have a go at problems, learning and practising. A place where it is perfectly OK to ‘fail’ or make mistakes, where you can work alone or with others as a team. Perhaps it will help your child realise their potential as a scientist, or an engineer or an artist. It might bring out the champion of thinking in the child. We will invite retired and working professionals in Alexandra to come by and share their knowledge and wisdom with our children, to mentor and guide them in learning. We will arrange alluring, cool rewards and prizes for children who shine mentally. We will encourage aspirations and learning in all fields, not just math and science.
Meeting weekly: Sundays 3:oopm in the Studio room at Alexandra Community Hub
Learning/teaching approach: This will have many elements of an adventure. We will role play pioneers in maths and science. We will pretend that we are the first humans to tackle a problem with no readymade solution. We will give our minds the time to wrestle with fundamental problems of math and science. We will try and invent original solutions. We will have fun and struggle. We will learn not to be daunted by mental challenges. Above all, we will endeavour to have fun thinking!
From this year on, we will encourage every child to pursue at least one idea or interest to design and develop a product or project over many months and present it at the end of the school year. We will work to provide resources, support, guidance, and facilities to complete the project and try to match them with a mentor in this process.
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STUDENT INFORMATION
Have you enrolled in a course at Alexandra Community Hub? We've listed a few important things that you should familiarise yourself with before you start your course.
To learn is to grow. If have a passion, want to explore a new career, socialise or are wanting to expand your mind, skills or work opportunities visit our calendar page and enroll in a course today!
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a course or talk to one of our team for assistance on 5772 1238.