ELEVATE ENTREPRENEURS
EARLY INTERVENTION
CAPACITY BUILDING
CAPACITY BUILDING
Preventing disengagement from education, community and economic contribution before it becomes dependency on supports. We do this by educating and empowering our young people and young mothers across South Australia in a bid to reduce generational unemployment and social support reliance.
Designed for upstream support before formal diagnoses, crisis thresholds or service eligibility are met.
Close the gap before it becomes a crisis.
Early school exit, financial dependence, reduced workforce participation, and intergenerational disadvantage are not inevitable outcomes - when support arrives early enough.
Why Elevate Entrepreneurs exists
Across South Australia, young people and young mothers are navigating education, employment and parenting within increasingly complex social and economic systems.
For many, disengagement happens quietly - behind a mask, hiding that everything is not ok. These young people to struggle internally until it is too late, where reliance on ongoing downstream supports becomes habitual. Elevate Entrepreneurs builds capability early, strengthening protective factors and practical skills so participants can stay connected to learning, work, self-employment and community.
This is upstream intervention: timely, strengths-based and designed to reduce long-term dependency.
Preventing disengagement before it becomes dependency
A practical, relationship-led model that strengthens capacity early so fewer young people fall through the gap.
If you work in education, youth services, community health, or family support, Elevate Entrepreneurs can complement your existing pathways by providing early capacity building before crisis thresholds are reached.
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Education connection
Support to stay engaged with school, training, or re-entry pathways before attendance issues become exit.
Employment readiness
Confidence, routines, and practical skills that build workforce participation and reduce financial dependence.
Young parent support
Capacity building for young mothers balancing parenting with education and employment
Systems navigation & wellbeing focus
Warm, coordinated guidance through one to one mentoring and workshops aimed to help young people navigate practical services and resources early - reducing downstream demand on health and human services.
With 52% of small business owners reporting mental health impacts in 2025, Elevate integrates wellbeing into the start-up journey. Our qualified nutritionist Michelle has developed practical tools and resources to help founders, youth and parents stay physically and mentally resilient as they grow their businesses.
We’ll help you assess suitability, referral pathways, and how Elevate™ complements your existing supports.
Program lead
MICHELLE GREGORY
Elevate Entrepreneurs is built for the gap that too many young people fall into - when things are getting harder, but they’re not yet “eligible” for help. My work focuses on early, practical capacity building that strengthens connection to education, employment and parenting supports.
If you’re a school, service, or community organisation looking for an upstream option, I’d love to explore how Elevate™ can support your cohort and reduce downstream demand.
Upstream
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Capacity
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Education + work
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How Elevate Entrepreneurs works
Elevate Entrepreneurs is not your average start-up course. The program takes a holistic approach to entrepreneurship - supporting both the business and the person building it. This is a system that builds practical capability early - before a young person or young mother reaches crisis thresholds.
Together we focus on:
- Stabilising routines and strengthening protective factors
- Economic literacy, transferable in both business and personal skills
- Wellbeing practice and practical tools for overall health and wellbeing
- Entrepreneurial support in creativity innovation of product and service
- Essential business fundamentals
- Re-engagement with education, training or employment pathways
- Confidence, self-advocacy and systems navigation
- Parenting capacity and practical supports for young mothers
The goal is simple: reduce disengagement now, and reduce downstream demand later.
Outcomes we work toward
Clear, measurable shifts that support long-term participation in education, work, and community.
“Michelle's friendly, passionate and supportive personality in conjunction with her lived experience in entrepreneurship and her ability to connect with people is what makes this program different from other youth entrepreneurship programs. All participants in my cohort appeared engaged and individually supported.”
- Emily, Second Nature Shop, SA
“The focus on routines, confidence, and practical steps helped me feel capable again. I didn’t need to hit rock bottom to get support.”
- Gemma*, young mum
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Over the past few weeks have been loving future makers as have learnt so much and not only that but I have also been enjoying every lesson! I have been learning really valuable skills that will help my business come to life like making sure you cover all your costs and ways to market your products and find customers etc! I rate it 5 stars for how much you learn and how fun and enjoyable it is a lastly how inspiring it is the way Michelle teaches!
- Josh, Josh Owen Photography
Participant of Elevate Entrepreneurs (Future Makers OYEH)
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