Training WA award recipient - Graylands

As a Welfare Officer with Graylands Hospital’s Extended Care Service (HECS), Remi Toluwade (seen here with Winner Remi with Acting Head of Social Welfare, Michelle) won the Department of Training and Workforce Development’s Cultural Diversity Training Award and was also Ambassador of the Year for North Metro TAFE, 2021.

WA Training recently requested Remi to put on her Ambassador hat for the VET sector again and be part of a photo shoot at Graylands Hospital, to promote the launch of the 2022 WA Training Awards program.

The award Remi won recognises the achievement of a culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) student who ‘…displays a strong understanding and knowledge of the vocational education and training system, demonstrating the relevance of lifelong learning for themselves and the migrant community’.

Migrating from Nigeria in 2015, Remi has a degree in Statistics and an MBA. The first time she heard about the suicide of a teenager on the news, she was shocked. Determined to act and contribute to her new home country, Remi decided to study a Certificate IV in Mental Health, and be ‘part of the solution for a mentally healthy Australia’.

The course at North Metropolitan TAFE has helped her understand the many issues that impact on mental health, and ways to support people's recovery. Remi has crossed several barriers to pursue her study and hopes that others in CaLD communities will see that studying at TAFE offers many opportunities. Remi aims to use her newly acquired skills to inspire friends in her community to maintain their mental health.