NRL 2021: School to Work, Indigenous education and employment, program continues to succeed
As an NRL School to Work project officer in Newcastle, Charmaine Piper is all about "empowering students" to push past their comfort zone. Piper has done just that in helping two promising Indigenous high school graduates of 2020, Shay Ping-Buckshiram and Brendan Marshall, secure identified traineeship positions with Lake Macquarie City Council. It's a testament to the value of the NRL School to Work program – sponsored by the Federal Government – which was established in 2012 and has now aided more than 2500 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to finish Year 12 and find meanin...