At just six years old, Hunter* had already suffered years of severe emotional, sexual and physical abuse and neglect, and lived in a domestically violent home. His parents separated when he was three. However, Hunter remained in the care of the perpetrator, his father.
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The Foundation for Young Australians (FYA) is a national organisation dedicated to all young people in Australia. They believe young people are ambitious, creative and capable of solving the world’s greatest challenges.
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Raise Foundation’s mission is to deliver best practice mentoring programs to young people in public high schools across Australia. In doing so Raise Foundation is pursuing its vision to create thriving communities across generations by training volunteer mentors from local communities to empower these young people to become more resilient, capable and connected.
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The Mirabel Foundation was established in Victoria in 1998 and extended into New South Wales in 2003 to support children aged 0-17 who have been orphaned or abandoned due to their parents’ drug use.
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BackTrack Youth Works is based in Armidale NSW and has been working with young people since 2006 to help them turn their lives around. BackTrack started as a group of volunteers with one goal in mind - to help seven teenage boys who had run out of options move forward with their lives.
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The Wingspan Project was launched by Wayside Chapel in 2018 to take disadvantaged young people from at-risk to at-promise.
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