Committee 4 Wagga was honoured to be a part of Compact Wagga's 30 Year Birthday

Committee 4 Wagga was honoured to be a part of Compact Wagga's 30 Year Birthday celebrations at The Wild Vine, Oura on Wednesday 20th July 2022.

Compact is a not-for-profit organisation that has implemented approximately 30,000 work placements over 30 years, with some students going on to become host employers over this time.

As a catalyst between education, industry, community and government, they have an excellent understanding of regional education and employment issues and extensive experience in the development of cross-sector partnerships, responsive to local needs.

Compact Chair Brian Millar addressing the audience of over 100 at The Wild Vine, Oura.

Compact Chair Brian Millar addressing the audience of over 100 at The Wild Vine, Oura

Some of their programs and initiatives have included:

  • “build a bridge and get over it” engineering camp in Borambola which has seen over 300 students attend

  • Burrabinya – Leap to your Future program aimed at building the capacity of Year 9 and 10 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students

  • ChangeUp is a fresh approach to improving the wellbeing of regional young people in Years 7-12, teaching them how to build resilience, self-awareness and optimistic thinking

  • plus many more

Compact designs programs for young people that are flexible, adaptable and agile in order to prepare them for the workplace and for life.

Megan Mulrooney also celebrated a milestone at the event having been the Executive Officer at Compact for 20 years!  In this time, Megan has overseen both in-person and virtual workplace opportunities including a recent one in partnership with Amazon.

C4W is a proud advocate of the great work Compact has done over the last 30 years and we wish them every success over the next 30 years to come.

Committee4Wagga Chair Adam Drummond and Compact Executive Officer Megan Mulrooney

 

Michelle Ford