About us
Community Colleges New Zealand Ltd
Comcol NZ
Nau mai, haere mai. Welcome.
Community Colleges New Zealand (Comcol) is at the heart of the community. As a charitable organisation, it has been nurtured and managed by people who wholeheartedly care about making a real difference in the lives of those who need support to learn and grow in an environment that best suits them.
With a vision and values that are entwined with the whakataukì of ‘poipoia te kakano kai puawai’ (nurture the seed and it will blossom), Comcol is intent on growing better lives by empowering individual success.
With a vision and values that are entwined with the whakataukì of ‘poipoia te kakano kai puawai’ (nurture the seed and it will blossom), Comcol is intent on growing better lives by empowering individual success.
Our vision is growing better lives
by empowering individual success.
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We offer a Youth Service! Youth Service works with young people to help them into education, training or work-based training. As a provider of this service we work actively and closely with young people by providing them with ongoing support and mentoring to improve their educational employment outcomes.
We give young people the guidance, practical support and encouragement they need to create a plan, relating to work or training, that suits them. We provide a FREE Youth Service for 16 - 19 years and our focus is on supporting our taiohi into education, training and work based-learning – but every day we do so much more. Our youth coaches provide intensive, tailored support to identify each individual's goals and the best path to reach them. Our wider communities also play an important role for our coaches, and we work collaboratively with many community organisations to provide a fully invested community wrap-around service. Our mahi, along with important wider community support, seeks to remove any barriers to success and create a better future for each and every young person we have the privilege of working alongside. |
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Values and Culture
We believe in creating an adult learning environment with workplace expectations and common sense values.
Our values of Respect, Integrity and Responsibility provide clear guidelines as a framework for our operations with the expectation that they will be modelled, explored and encouraged within the organisation.
Our culture is based around positive and caring relationships, with pastoral support a key part of each college. Individual pathways and career plans, embedded literacy and kinaestetic learning are some of the key elements to our approach to ensure learner success.
Celebrating learner achievement is central to our culture.
Our values of Respect, Integrity and Responsibility provide clear guidelines as a framework for our operations with the expectation that they will be modelled, explored and encouraged within the organisation.
Our culture is based around positive and caring relationships, with pastoral support a key part of each college. Individual pathways and career plans, embedded literacy and kinaestetic learning are some of the key elements to our approach to ensure learner success.
Celebrating learner achievement is central to our culture.
Research
- Youth Guarantee Project
- Proposed Regional Youth Development