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12 Buckets
Young people in disadvantaged schools often need more guidance and support to help build resilience and independence. 12 Buckets offers community-based mentoring programs designed to foster personal growth, strengthen peer-to-peer networks and improve students’ overall wellbeing.
A Stitch in Time
The Rise Up program brings mental health education to students in schools across Western Australia. Delivered by psychologists, experienced facilitators, elite athletes, and trained youth educators, these workshops promote self-care, equip students with skills to navigate life’s challenges and help reduce the risk of developing mental health issues.
ABC Foundation
The Ranger4Life Program empowers Indigenous students by reigniting their passion for learning through a unique blend of life skills, leadership development, and Indigenous ecological knowledge integrated with modern education. Participants benefit from cultural guidance by Elders, alongside comprehensive training and hands-on experience, fostering confidence and preparing them for future success.
Ability Solutions
The All Abilities Art, High Care Kids and Adaptive Innovative Community Equipment programs aim to improve quality of life for children with complex disabilities, encouraging engagement in artistic sport and recreational activities. Innovative equipment items are tailor-made to support the individual needs of children.
Ability WA
Ability WA’s In-Home Baby Intervention Service provides allied health therapy to babies ‘at-risk’ of developmental delay or disability. The assistive technology hire library, ‘AssisTkids’, is a first in WA, offering children timely access to specialised equipment. The Early Mealtime Service supports children with developing practical strategies to address mealtime challenges.
Achievers Club WA
The Achievers Club supports primary and secondary school students from disadvantaged backgrounds through weekly mentoring sessions. Volunteer mentors provide tailored assistance, helping students progress at their own pace. The program aims to boost self-confidence, trust and a sense of achievement, fostering academic growth and personal development.
ADHD WA
The SPARK program is a specialised initiative designed to support children with ADHD and their families. It offers resources, workshops, and educational tools to enhance understanding and management of ADHD, focusing on building strengths, improving skills, and promoting well-being to enable children to thrive.
All Stars for Autism
The Telethon Teen Mentoring Program provides an exciting opportunity for high school students with autism to mentor primary school students with autism. This initiative enables autistic children to connect, collaborate and inspire each other as they work together on creative and meaningful community-driven projects.
Allergy Support Hub
The Family Support Program aids caregivers of young children with severe allergies, offering education and support to enhance allergy management, family functioning, and mental health. Psychological intervention, offered to children with allergy anxiety through the Allergy Brave program, improves children’s quality of life and empowers them to thrive.
Anglicare WA
Anglicare WA’s Young Hearts program provides free counselling for children and young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. Through art, play and narrative therapies, these young West Australians are supported to rebuild trust and attachment, express their emotions and make sense of their experiences. The Pilbara Families program (Karratha) will support the wellbeing of children aged 8-13 using a whole family model of care.
Australian Children's Music Foundation
The Australian Children’s Music Foundation program provides music education and instruments to children and at-risk youth in metropolitan, regional and remote Western Australia. The program offers the opportunity to learn and develop musical skills while experiencing the joy of creativity, developing imagination, and achieving positive educational and behavioural outcomes.
Australian Kookaburra Kids Foundation
Mental illness among parents can be debilitating for their children, with long-lasting impacts. The Kookaburra Kids camp and activity days equip children with skills, peer support and emotional literacy, supporting healthy childhoods and improving mental health outcomes.
Autism Association of Western Australia
Autism Connect support children with autism to access early diagnosis, funding and interventions. The program consists of specialist playgroups, workshops, and groups that strengthen family capacity, tailored to the unique needs of fathers and siblings of children with autism.
Back on Track Foundation
Back on Track WA provides children diagnosed with cancer access to tailored educational support through mentoring, tutoring and collaboration with online education providers. This aims to get the children back on track for their schooling objectives after undergoing challenging treatments.
Barking Gecko Theatre Company
A ticket subsidy program will enable children with additional needs and their families to attend a wide range of arts and cultural performances and activities. The Access Touring Program brings live theatre to schools and communities in low socio-economic areas, ensuring equitable access to arts and cultural experiences.
Binar Futures
The Binar Health Embassy seeks to enhance the well-being of Aboriginal children and youth in regional and remote areas through a groundbreaking health initiative at Binar basketball tournaments. With engaging incentives, players can undergo essential health checks by doctors and receive seamless follow-up care from local medical services.
Blackwood Youth Action
The Warren Youth Mental Health Support Program provides tailored workshops to support the mental health and social well-being of at-risk and disadvantaged youth in the Manjimup community. The program focuses on raising awareness of mental health challenges and equipping participants with effective coping strategies.
Blind Sports WA
Let’s Get Visible is a specialised physical literacy program designed for school-aged children with vision impairments. By focusing on balance, strength, and mobility, it helps boost confidence and movement skills. The holiday program features adapted activities such as cooking, crafts and sports, fostering social interaction, creativity, and essential life skills.
Bridge Builders
The Backpack Buddies addresses a critical gap in children’s nutritional needs by providing program healthy food packs to children in the Peel region outside of school hours. Distributed through schools, the program supports children’s physical health and cognitive development, as well as alleviating stress and anxiety.
Bully Zero
Through the delivery of interactive bully intervention and prevention programs in schools across Perth and Peel, Bully Zero’s Stronger Together program aims to reduce bullying incidents, educate children on cyber safety and improve resilience and mental health.
Clown Doctors
The Humour Foundation's Clown Doctors use evidence-informed humour therapy to improve quality of life for children at Perth Children’s Hospital. Purpose-trained to work in medical settings, Clown Doctors address physiological and psychological needs – distracting frightened children, encouraging resilience, providing respite for parents, and supporting hospital staff.
Cahoots
The Cahoots Hearts and Minds (CHAMPS) program is a holistic well-being program for neurodivergent children, children with disabilities, and/or children facing disadvantage. CHAMPS use mindfulness, positive mental health practices, art and sensory experiences to improve children’s mental health, social connections, self-regulation and wellbeing in an inclusive safe environment.
Camp Autism WA
Camp Autism WA provides unique camps for children with autism and their families, fostering connection, peer support, and shared adventures. These camps also promote awareness and inclusion, empowering autism families to thrive and shine.
Camp Quality
Camp Quality’s Child Life Therapy offers procedural support to children with cancer, helping them and their family cope better with often scary and painful invasive medical treatments. The KICC Program provides tangible support to children impacted by their carer's cancer diagnosis, improving their social and emotional wellbeing.
Cancer Council WA
The Children’s Cancer Counselling Program is a pilot program providing free counselling sessions to support 2–17-year-olds who have experienced or had loved ones affected by cancer.
Carers WA
The Young Carer Program supports young people in WA who care for family members with disabilities, mental illness, chronic conditions, or who are aged. The camps offer young carers aged 8 to 13 the opportunity to develop and build skills, companionship, resilience, and identity.
Child and Adolescent Health Service
Since 1968, Telethon has supported Princess Margaret Hospital for Children and Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) to purchase the latest medical equipment, specialist facilities, program support and research fellowships. In 2025, Telethon will support revolutionary Zero G gait therapy, more than 40 pieces of equipment, and groundbreaking research, bettering the lives of children across the state.
Childhood Dementia Initiative
The Childhood Dementia Initiative aims to improve awareness of childhood dementia and improve children’s access to treatment and services. The program will bring together families across WA to share their lived experience and voice as a collective, informing and building access to appropriate care for children facing childhood dementia.
Cockburn Integrated Health
Cockburn Integrated Health’s Aboriginal Ear Health Program is a collaboration between a range of service providers to improve access to ear health and support services, including audiology, surgical and related speech pathology, for Aboriginal children in Western Australia.
Communicare
Welcome Journeys offers psychosocial, education and peer supports to young refugees and migrants, who are at risk of isolation and mental health issues. My PlaySchool is an early intervention program for migrant and refugee children with developmental vulnerabilities, which aims to improve confidence in prepare children for transitioning to school.
Constable Care Child Safety Foundation
Constable Care will deliver an interactive film program aimed at Year 4-6 students, encouraging open dialog to focus on help-seeking behaviours around mental health. The interactive incursion aims to address alarming statistics around mental health issues affecting a growing percentage of primary school students.
Curtin University
Researchers at Curtin University will co-design an online intervention to prevent and treat mental health issues resulting from grief in children; test the safety of co-administered IV medications in neonatal care settings aims to reduce the risk of poor health outcomes for critical ill babies; develop an arts-based intervention to address mental health in children with autism and will provide solutions to addresses language and cultural barriers in clinical settings.
Cystic Fibrosis WA
CFWA’s Thriving Families program supports regional children with cystic fibrosis and their families through equitable access to care, therapy, support services, and respite for caregivers. LungSmart elevates respiratory health awareness in regional Aboriginal communities by educating families and communities to recognise and seek care for children experiencing wet cough.
Dandelions WA
Dandelions WA supports children in need by ensuring they start the school year with equality, hope, and confidence. The provision of new backpacks filled with stationery, digital technology and essential items including a lunchbox and water bottle helps children attend school ready and excited to learn.
WA Child Research Fund
The WA Child Research Fund supports research leading to better health outcomes for children and adolescents in WA. It promotes the translation of research findings into evidence-based health policy and practice and contributes to integrating research capability across universities, research institutes and state-wide health services.
Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service Aboriginal Corporation
Derbarl Yerrigan Health Service’s paediatric service is a unique model that allows Aboriginal children with complex health and developmental needs access to life-changing diagnostic and therapeutic support. Case coordination and support from a multidisciplinary team offers a one stop shop focused on addressing the needs of a child in a cultural safe environment.
Down Syndrome WA
Down Syndrome WA’s Family Support program offers wrap around support to children with down syndrome and their families, through pre/post-natal family visits, developmental playgroups, PCH and regional outreach, and information and advocacy. Connection to peers creates a strong foundation of knowledge, skills, social networks and lifelong friendships.
Ear Science Institute
Researchers aim to develop a novel bone-conducting hearing aid for Aboriginal children with conductive hearing loss, improving their development and educational outcomes. The CELLCYTE X live cell and spheroid imaging system will allow investigation of hearing preservation treatments for chronic suppurative otitis media and sensorineural hearing loss in children.
Earbus Foundation of WA
Earbus Foundation’s experienced Hearing Screening and Audiology teams will lead a partnership with paediatric specialists including Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Developmental Psychologists and Physiotherapists to bring a suite of coordinated and seamless wrap-around services to at-risk regional and remote communities.
Eat Up
Eat Up’s mission is to feed hungry kids so they can grow, learn and succeed. In 2025, Eat Up will provide lunches to 46 schools in six regional areas, addressing systemic poverty and food insecurity issues to improve health and educational outcomes for children.
EdConnect Australia
The EdConnect Great at Eight program will focus on providing 150 trained and skilled volunteers into primary schools to work with 3,000 disadvantaged and vulnerable children who are at risk of falling behind in literacy skill development before they reach a pivotal point in their learning.
Edmund Rice Centre WA
Edmund Rice Centre’s Moorditj Koolangka (Strong Children) and Koomba Koolangka (Strong Big Kids) programs support vulnerable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to improve mental and social wellbeing through engagement with arts and increased connection to culture.
EON Foundation
Using edible gardens as a tool, the Thriving Communities program empowers children with skills, knowledge, and infrastructure to grow, harvest and cook; and reduces food insecurity for children affected by poverty by providing a source of free, fresh food.
Epilepsy WA
The Children and Epilepsy Program provides loan seizure alert devices, outreach and nurse support to children with epilepsy and their families. The program helps to improve health outcomes by reducing the risk of epilepsy-related harm, fear, anxiety and stigma This Children’s Epilepsy Support and Risk Reduction program offers children with epilepsy access to the latest leading head protection wear, seizure alert devices and children’s epilepsy-related story books, to reduce stigma and reduce their risk of epilepsy-related injuries, and deaths, while empowering independence.
Eq Cetera
Horses Helping Humans offer equine-assisted therapy to sick, vulnerable and disadvantaged children, helping develop confidence, communication, and emotional regulation, in a supportive, non-invasive and nurturing environment. Two new therapy horses will support Eq Cetera’s equine-assisted therapy programs with children.
Expression Australia
Expression Australia's CODA (Children of Deaf Adults) program aims to raise awareness and understanding of the experiences of CODA individuals in Western Australia. The program will support and develop resources to improve the health and wellbeing of CODA children across the State.
Fair Game Australia
The Fit and Healthy Outback Kids program delivers engaging fitness sessions and fun interactive health promotion activities in remote communities, aiming to reduce risk of lifestyle related disease, build social cohesion and improve mental well-being. The Recycle and Donate project distributes pre-loved sports shoes and equipment, enabling children to experience the physical, mental and social benefits of sports participation.
Far North Community Services
The Kimberley Children and Family Outreach Program will provide support for vulnerable and disadvantaged children and their families to maintain a safe and stable living environment, where the children thrive. The program will build resilience and reconnect family with informal / kin networks, reducing carer burnout and risk of entering out of home care, while improving access to other needed services.
The Fathering Project
The Supporting Fathers of Children with Neurodivergence program aims to enhance parenting skills, reduce stress and provide peer support. The program is building capacity and delivering resources to positively impact the child’s emotional, cognitive, and physical development.
Fiona Stanley Hospital and South Metropolitan Health Service
Research aiming to reverse peanut allergy in infants through oral immunotherapy, will generate the evidence to translate this potentially life-changing treatment into a community-based model of care. The Draeger VN800 ventilator, specifically designed for premature and sick babies, harnesses the latest technology to provide the most gentle yet effective ventilation support.
Fiona Wood Foundation
Fiona Wood Foundation are extending their paediatric burns biobank to explore the link between physiological markers after childhood burn and the psychosocial effects of burn injury. This study will identify the relationships between clinical, demographic and physiological characteristics, scar impact, strengths and difficulties, posttraumatic stress and impact on parents.
Food Ladder
The Food Ladder School System is a multifaceted and innovative solution addressing food insecurity by providing vulnerable and disadvantaged communities with sustainable, locally grown produce. It utilises advanced hydroponic systems to cultivate nutritious, fresh produce year-round, even in the harshest of climates, while promoting self-sufficiency in underserved areas.
Foodbank WA
The School Breakfast Program supports students in more than 500 schools, improving food security and increasing education, health and social outcomes. Through the nom! Children program, public health nutritionists provide parents with young children the knowledge, skills and confidence to create nutritious meals.
Football Futures Foundation
By providing a suite of inclusive football opportunities, Football for All promotes physical fitness and mental resilience in children with disabilities. A strengthened focus on peer support will see young mentors with disabilities support program participants.
Fostering Hope
Fostering Hope supports foster carers throughout WA by providing essential clothing and toys for children and young people placed in care. Fostering Joy events, including a picnic, party and disco help foster laughter, play and a sense of community.
Furthering Autistic Children's Education and Schooling
Children with autism often face poor academic and social outcomes. This project provides services for children with autism using evidence-backed methods that support improved educational, social and mental health outcomes for children with autism and other neurodivergent conditions, their families, peers and teachers.
Hannah's House
The Playtime Program creates inclusive play experiences that help children with high level needs work towards important developmental milestones in a safe and supportive environment. In-home care programs for babies and children with complex conditions deliver safe support services by trained registered nurses and support workers who specialise in high-intensity paediatric care.
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Research undertaken at Harry Perkins will test a novel application of the ‘exon-skipping’ strategy that was pioneered for treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This project will develop exon-skipping drugs for treatment of two muscle diseases and test whether these treatments are effective in-patient cells supporting better outcomes for children with muscle disease.
Healthy Strides Foundation
Run Club for Kids empowers children with neurodisabilities by offering an afterschool Frame Running and inclusive sport program. This initiative enhances physical health, promotes well-being, and fosters social connections, providing meaningful opportunities for children to engage, socialise, and develop friendships.
HeartKids
HeartKids provides direct support services and programs designed to improve the quality, delivery, and access to critical services for chronically ill children impacted by childhood-onset heart disease. Lived Experience Support Coordinators across metro and regional WA offer emotional support, advice on navigating the health system and coordinate peer-support groups.
Helping Little Hands
The Connections program provides premature babies, and their families access to critical support services, removing stressors so families can focus on their child’s health. The Aboriginal Support Fund supports Aboriginal parents with premature or sick babies by reducing barriers to attending hospital and ensuring parents are part of their babies' care.
Helping Minds
The Artful Journeys program blends mental health education with creative expression, offering children and teenagers a safe, vibrant space to directly support their health: mind, body and spirit. Dance Connection supports vulnerable and disadvantaged young people experiencing mental health challenges through dance movement therapy and educational workshops.
Holyoake
The Very Young Persons Program (VYPP) supports young people aged 8-13 with Alcohol or Drug Use (AOD) issues. VYPP provides individualised, family-inclusive interventions focusing on motivation to change, emotional regulation, and relationship building, to reduce AOD use and enhance resilience for long-term positive outcomes.
HorsePower Hills
HorsePower Hills aims to empower children with diverse abilities to break through physical, cognitive, emotional and social barriers utilising the power of the horse to develop new skills, discover new abilities and define the life they want to live.
Inclusion Solutions
The Building Inclusive Schools project focuses on the inclusion of children with disabilities in schools, upskilling and building the capacity of students, staff, teachers and families through interactive disability inclusion workshops.
JK Foundation
A Youth Worker will assist disadvantaged and disengaged students at Mullewa District High School to prepare for and get to school, engage in healthy eating and sport and be supported going to classes.
Julyardi Aboriginal Corporation
The Kumaparniku program provides support to vulnerable families improving health and wellbeing outcomes with a focus on children under 5 years. The holistic approach supports families to set realistic and achievable goals for themselves to improve outcomes and create a positive and sustainable future for their young families.
Karratha Community House
Workshops specifically tailored to the unique challenges faced by educators and families in rural and remote Karratha will offer access to essential resources and knowledge, enabling children and families to thrive. School holiday play programs provide children access to quality educational experiences, while offering parents much-needed respite.
The Katina Woodruff Children's Foundation
The Inclusion Development and Readiness project supports recently arrived refugee and migrant children to overcome trauma and dislocation and move forward to new and healthy futures. Individualised cultural support programs improve mental health and wellbeing, allowing children to adjust better to their new setting.
Kidney Health Australia
Kidney Kids Es-Caper Camps provides life-changing weekends for children and young people living with kidney disease, offering them the chance to build strong peer connections through fun activities. Camps foster lasting support networks, with ongoing online connections to reinforce the relationships formed.
Kids are Kids Therapy & Education Centre
The Therapy in Schools program, based in the Armadale region, provides children at developmental risk with allied health assessment and intervention within an evidence-based trauma informed framework. This early intervention is vital in improving literacy and developmental outcomes within the region.
Kids Cancer Support Group
The Peer Support Program supports families impacted by childhood cancer through connection, support and advocacy to families in treatment, post treatment and throughout bereavement. The provision of toys, crafts, activities, and events helps brighten a child’s stay in hospital. Playgroups are tailored and offer therapeutic play opportunities guided by a qualified Play Therapist.
The Kids Research Institute Australia
The Kids Research Institute Australia is one of the largest and most successful child health research institutes in Australia. Their researchers are searching for answers to the biggest issues facing children and families everywhere. At The Kids, the vision is simple: happy, healthy kids.
KIIND
The Kiind in-hospital and out-of-hospital support programs support children with disability and their families to navigate the complexities of an unexpected diagnosis at Perth Children’s Hospital and across regional and remote WA. After discharge, Kiind offers ongoing practical, social and emotional support to children and their families.
Kwinana Early Years Services
Kwinana Early Years Services (KEYS) aims to test and identify the most impactful components of transition-to-kindy programs for disadvantaged children in Kwinana. By comparing an intensive one-term program against a co-designed two-term program, KEYS will determine which aspects deliver impactful outcomes with minimal resources, enabling scalable and sustainable solutions for vulnerable children.
LBW Trust
The Bridging the Divide initiative delivers crucial educational, health and wellbeing programs to children in rural and remote WA. By empowering local libraries to address community-identified needs, the LBW Trust bridges the divide, ensuring every child has access to the resources they profoundly lack.
Legacy WA
Legacy WA supports children of veterans who have sacrificed their lives or health while serving in the Australian Defence Force. The Education Assistance Program ensures children do not experience educational disadvantage because of their parent’s ill-health, while Legacy Connect offers opportunities for connection and peer support through sport, art and nature.
Life Education
Life Education WA partners with primary schools in the Goldfields and surrounding country towns to deliver health and safety education. The project, aimed at low socioeconomic schools, tackles the biggest health issues upper primary students are facing, including cybersafety, mental health, and vaping.
Lifeline WA
Digital Crisis Support connects young people in crisis to life-saving care and support via text or online chat. This service offers a safe and non-judgemental space to provide support and referrals to young people facing mental health issues.
Lionheart Camp for Kids
Lionheart’s Family Camps support grieving children following the death of a parent or significant person. The camp provides a safe space for vulnerable children to learn critical skills to navigate grief. The Grief Pathway Program provides a wrap-around grief support for children following the death of an immediate family member.
Lions Eye Institute
Lions Eye Institute combines world-class treatment with ground-breaking scientific research in eye and vision health. Its community outreach service, Lions Outback Vision, strives towards its mission to prevent and cure blindness and eye disease from infancy to childhood and beyond in metropolitan, regional and remote WA.
Little Big Steps
Physical activity plays a pivotal role in maintaining and improving the overall health of children undergoing cancer treatment. Little Big Steps provides physiotherapy support to help kids keep moving while undergoing cancer treatments at Perth Children’s Hospital.
Luma
The Mindful Nest program is a counselling and therapeutic program for children and young people who have been impacted by family and domestic violence. Nurturing Families assists families impacted by maternal alcohol or drug use during pregnancy and early years parenting to make long-lasting behavioural changes and build safe, healthy relationships.
The Lung Warrior
The Respicare Packs program, based within the respiratory ward at Perth Children’s Hospital, aims to offer entertainment and a source of distraction for young patients battling lung-related illnesses in Western Australia.
The Magic Coat Foundation
The Magic Coat Hospital Adventure App is designed to prepare children for surgery, reducing anxiety and improving children's experience at Perth Children's Hospital.
Make-A-Wish Australia
Make-A-Wish grant inspirational wish journeys for critically ill children. For everyone involved, the impact of a wish has an immediate uplifting and positive effect, empowering children with hope and joy when they need it most.
Meningitis Centre Australia
The KnowActVax program educates communities and raises awareness of meningitis in WA. Sharing the message ‘know the signs, act immediately and vaccinate’, the program strives to save lives and reduce the risk of disability in children throughout metropolitan, regional and remote WA.
Miracle Babies Foundation
Miracle Babies Nurture Program supports Perth families, with sick or premature babies, through comprehensive parent-to-parent support from pregnancy, throughout their stay in the hospital to the transition home and beyond.
Murdoch University
In 2025, Murdoch University will undertake research exploring new brain models for rare disease and drug testing for children with cochlear implants. Programs will support physical activity in autistic children and the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal youth in the Kimberley. A new imaging system will support drug development for children with rare genetic conditions.
Nature Play WA
‘Nature Play in the Park’ promotes connectedness to nature, healthy eating, physical activity, emotional wellbeing, and child development in pre-school children. In 2025, it will also be delivered to neurodiverse children.
Neurological Council of WA
The NeuroKids program supports the health and wellbeing of children and adolescents living with neurological symptoms or conditions, and their families, through free, home and community based neurological nursing, health care and disability management and navigation.
Neuromuscular WA
The Adolescent Resilience and Capacity Building Program for school-aged children living with a neuromuscular condition provides a range of capacity building, community engagement and peer mentoring opportunities to increase the participants’ self-confidence and independence while reducing their social isolation and improving mental and physical health.
Ngala Family Services
The Parenting on the Inside program supports highly vulnerable children and mothers through weekly parenting and playtime sessions, providing a brighter future for all.
North Metropolitan Health Service
North Metropolitan Health Service is committed to providing excellent health care for patients and the community. The Genome Sequencing Service will expedite genetic testing for paediatric patients in WA and allow faster diagnosis and interventions for the most vulnerable WA children.
Ocean Heroes
Ocean Heroes host free surfing events for neurodiverse children in regional WA. Combining the autism and surfing communities enables Ocean Heroes’ goal of making the ocean safe and inclusive for everyone.
Operation Sunshine WA
Sunshine packs provide comfort and support to children in crisis, including children who are entering out-of-home care and crisis accommodation. These packs provide highly vulnerable children with new, essential and comfort items, including a backpack, clothing in their size, personal hygiene items, soft toys and colouring books.
Origins
ORIGINS is the largest study of its kind in Australia, following 10,000 children, from their time in the womb, over a decade to improve child and adult health. Origins researchers are not only investigating the prevention of disease but also looking to discover how every child and family can reach their full potential.
Outcare
The Arclight Initiative aims to address and reverse anti-social and criminal behaviours among young people in Kwinana. Its unique approach of understanding attachment, relationship, and competency encourages young people who have been severely impacted by trauma to make a significant and profound positive adjustment to their lives now and well into adulthood.
OzHarvest
OzHarvest’s Nourishing Our Schools program supports vulnerable children and their families throughout the school year by providing ‘Food for Learning’ to students, and ‘Food for Thriving’ healthy hampers to help tackle food insecurity experienced by children and their families in the WA community.
Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service
For pregnant Aboriginal women living in WA’s East Pilbara, significant issues systematically impede their pregnancy journey and a safe and healthy start to life for their babies. Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service provide culturally responsive and appropriate fully comprehensive primary health care services, for children and their families, in communities of Jigalong, Parnngurr, Punmu, Kunawarritji and Newman.
Para and Ability Dance Western Australia
Para and Ability Dance will provide inclusive dance classes to schools, fostering joy, building social connections and helping develop communication skills. By offering classes in schools, this program removes access barriers, ensuring children who otherwise are unable to engage in recreation activities can participate.
Parkerville Children and Youth Care
The Education Employment and Training Program provides young people, who are at risk of failing school, with tools to create a successful future. The Multi-agency Investigation Support Team model is WA’s first integrated response to child sexual abuse, co-locating all supports needed to reduce the impact of trauma.
Pelvic Pain Foundation
PPEP Talk and Yarns addresses critical gaps in education for teens. Focusing on First Nations and economically disadvantaged youth, the program aims to reduce stigma, improve health literacy, and enhance access to care for menstrual health and endometriosis.
Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science
Chromosome 15 (Chr15) imprinting disorders including Angelman Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome and Chr15 q duplication syndrome are incurable neurological diseases. Research aims to develop novel treatments for these disorders using antisense oligonucleotides to normalise gene expression.
Perth Children's Hospital Foundation
Move to Improve works with children with ongoing health conditions to provide accessible, evidence-based opportunities to increase physical activity and improve health and wellbeing. The Rare Care Centre delivers comprehensive care to children living with rare and undiagnosed diseases.
Perth Symphony Orchestra
The Pilbara Soundscapes initiative empowers children through music. Engaging an Indigenous elder, the project cultivates cultural identity and promotes healing through musical workshops, performances, and mentorship. Additionally, the project facilitates access to essential healthcare services, addressing the holistic needs of regional children.
Pregnancy to Parenthood Clinic
The Vulnerable Infants Program is a no cost clinical intervention and training program delivered in Perth and Geraldton. It supports foundational relationships between parents and their babies, reduces the risk of mental health issues in infancy, and works to break down intergenerational trauma.
Radio Lollipop
Through Radio Lollipop's Ward Visiting Program, volunteers in eight hospitals bring smiles and laughter to children, improving wellbeing, creativity and companionship. The radio station at Perth Children’s Hospital allows children to request songs and even help host the on-air broadcast.
Raise Foundation
The Raise Youth Mentoring Program is a 20-week early-intervention mentoring program for young people who have been identified as at risk of disengagement and poor wellbeing. Mentors support young people to achieve optimal outcomes in relation to mental health, social and emotional wellbeing and school engagement.
Rebound WA
The Giving Kids A Go program aims to remove physical and mental barriers that exist for children and teenagers with a physical disability, providing them with the same sports and recreation opportunities as their peers and offering a support network to families.
Reclink
Reclink provides opportunities for children with disabilities and poor mental health from disadvantaged communities to access a range of inclusive sport, recreation and art activities with the aim of improving physical, mental and social well-being.
Redkite
Redkite provides financial assistance to families facing childhood cancer, aiming to relieve stress and enable families to provide the best possible care and support to their children. Specialist child counselling and music therapy help support the mental health and Childhood cancer brings significant financial challenges for families. Parents and carers may need to leave or reduce work to care for their child, while also incurring additional expenses. Assistance through Redkite relieves financial pressure and enables families to provide the best possible care and support to their children.
Respiratory Care WA
The Children’s Respiratory Hub offers free, personalised care and support for children and families managing respiratory conditions. As the only service providing access to paediatric lung function testing, specialist consultations, and education, the hub helps children stay active, avoid hospital visits, and live their healthiest, happiest lives.
Riding for the Disabled Brigadoon
Equine therapy supports children with disabilities with mobility, coordination, balance and strength. The Equicizer is a mechanical horse that offers safe, soothing, low impact core exercise, and fun, alternative ways to deliver equine therapies for people with disabilities.
Riding for the Disabled BrookValley Farm
RDA BrookValley Farm provides children with disabilities access to therapeutic riding programs that support their overall health and well-being. Equine therapy enhances physical strength, posture, and flexibility while also fostering emotional growth by boosting self-esteem and confidence.
Riding for the Disabled Capricorn
RDA Capricorn empowers riders with disabilities or additional support needs to enjoy the challenges and rewards of equestrian activities. Through these experiences, riders build confidence, achieve personal goals, develop essential life skills, and enhance their overall quality of life.
Riding for the Disabled Carine
RDA Carine offers therapeutic equine-assisted programs for children in WA with diverse abilities and additional needs. Through engaging, interactive activities, the program promotes physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being while fostering a supportive environment that encourages growth, confidence, and independence.
Rocky Bay
The Early Start Intervention Program (ESIP) provides vital early intervention therapies for children with or at risk of rare diseases, offering hope to families struggling to access support services. The Home Away from Home program at Lady Lawley Cottage will provide 10 specialist respite beds, addressing the critical need for children’s respite in WA.
Royal Flying Doctor Service
The Heli Help for Babies program enables the RFDS helicopter service to provide faster, smoother and often time-critical journeys for seriously ill newborn babies from regional WA. Operating within a 250km radius of Perth, the helicopters will transfer WA's youngest, most vulnerable, patients directly to PCH.
The Salvation Army
Dedicated child counsellors at Salvation Army women’s refuges in Perth and Karratha support the mental health and wellbeing of children impacted by family and domestic violence. These roles provide specialised assessments, one-to-one psychological care and identifies pathways to relevant support and long-term recovery.
Schools Plus
Schools Plus partners with schools in communities facing disadvantage, to tackle their number one priority of poor student wellbeing. Through place-based, strategic initiatives, schools will be supported to improve the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable and disadvantaged children, to ensure they thrive and fulfil their potential.
Scitech
To create a more inclusive and barrier-free space, three LEXI Viewer live captioning devices, will be installed in the Planetarium, Science Theatre, and Laboratory, ensuring deaf or hard of hearing children have equal access to an enjoyable educational experience.
SensesWA
The New Buds program provides expert early childhood intervention services for children with identified vision and hearing issues and/or risk profiles. New Buds therapists support the child’s developmental milestones, communication development, integration into school settings and engagement with appropriate supports.
Sensorium Theatre
Sensorium Theatre’s Imaginate program brings high-quality, multi-sensory performing arts to children with disabilities in Perth schools, libraries, and early years centres, enhancing well-being and inclusion for those facing disadvantage.
Shooting Stars
This Mother Country and Me program will empower school-aged Aboriginal girls from Halls Creek, Derby, Laverton and Leonora through cultural and language workshops with local Elders and women family members.
The Smith Family
Learning Clubs offer secure and supportive out-of-school-hours learning environments for vulnerable primary students facing disadvantages. In these settings, students can access resources, specialised learning and activities to enhance their academic skills. Guided by skilled tutors and nurtured in socially connected environments, students also experience improved wellbeing.
Sony Foundation Australia
Open Parachute is an in-school mental health and well-being program tailored for K-12. Using an early-intervention approach, it teaches the coping skills and resilience needed to thrive through adolescence and beyond. Students learn from real peer stories on topics such as social media, bullying, body image, depression, anxiety and addiction.
Special Olympics Australia
The Unified Playing for All program engages children aged 6-17 with and without intellectual disabilities in inclusive, non-competitive sports activities. Focused on fun and skill-building, the program promotes physical fitness, teamwork, and life skills through diverse games, fostering lifelong active habits and social connections.
Spectrum Space
The Holiday Makers Program nurtures the social and emotional development of autistic children by providing a safe inclusive space where they can meet others and experience new activities based on their interests. The program aims to improve children’s social skills, self-esteem and confidence.
Sports Challenge Australia
The world-first E-pals platform supports the mental and physical health of children identified as at-risk. Dedicated mentors offer a strong, supportive and consistent role model and provide a sense of belonging and connection.
St John WA
First Aid skills are critical for children in remote communities. The First Aid Focus program will support schoolchildren in eight of WA’s North West remote and vulnerable communities.
St John of God Foundation
Cutting-edge medical equipment will ensure neonatal babies and children at St John of God hospitals receive the best possible care. The Moort Boodjari Mia service will support a mobile midwifery program, providing outreach antenatal and postnatal care to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and their children within the Wheatbelt.
Starick
Thriving Through Connection aims to improve the safety and wellbeing of young people who have experienced family and domestic violence. Based in Perth’s south-east, the program offers individual and group-based support, psychosocial education, practical assistance, advocacy and referral, and builds social and peer connections.
Starlight Children’s Foundation
The Captain Starlight program at Perth Children’s Hospital uses play and social connection to help sick children cope in times of stress and positively impact their healthcare experience. Livewire supports teens with the stress and isolation of their illness by providing opportunities for creativity, connection and entertainment.
Superfins WA
The Superfins Learn to Swim program offers children with disabilities access to swimming lessons tailored to their individual needs. It aims to promote water safety and improve physical health and fitness while learning the basic skills of swimming.
Supertee
Supertee aims to empower children in five hospitals across WA by replacing standard hospital gowns with Supertee care packs. This project helps bring imagination, and strength to children facing serious, long-term illnesses, while providing parents and hospital staff an easier way to change their child while accessing or bypassing medical lines.
Swan Districts Foundation
Through accessible sports and targeted mentoring, the Disability and Inclusion program allows children with disabilities to build self-esteem, independence, and communication to support their education and employment pathways and improve mental and physical health.
TSH
TSH (Teach, Speak, Hear) offers quality educational, diagnostic, therapeutic and support services for children with hearing loss and speech and language delays. These essential early interventions and school support services ensure children achieve success in education and future employment.
Therapy Focus
Therapy Focus offer individual and group therapy sessions and a play-based therapy space to help children with disabilities and developmental delays prepare for schooling. Unique equipment tailored for a child’s individual needs increases quality of life and supports their goals and aspirations.
Thriive WA; formerly Edmund Rice Camp for Kids
Mentorship programs provide a fun, recreational, safe space which offers capacity building opportunities to children considered at-risk or disadvantaged, as well as boosting their physical and mental health. The Remote Community Program extends these vital services to children in regional and remote areas.
Thriving Exercise Rehabilitation
The Thriving in Motion program is a unique exercise service targeting children and young people whose ability to participate in community or school-based physical activity is impacted by physical, mental or behavioural conditions, ensuring equal opportunity and improving health and wellbeing.
Tiny Sparks
Neonatal Unit Care Packages provide essential support to families during unexpected and stressful hospital stays. Packs include items such as a cooler bag for safely transporting expressed breast milk and clothing designed specifically for premature babies. Each item is carefully selected by graduate families to balance practicality and sentiment.
Transplant Australia
Stress, uncertainty and interruption to school and social life all impact a child’s development. The Transplant Ready program is designed to help children, and their families navigate transplantation while Transplant Active helps them normalise and re-enter community life.
Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre
T1D Camp Connect offers transformative camps for teens and families affected by type 1 diabetes, offering life-changing experiences that protect children against disadvantage and exclusion and create lasting connections. T1D Empower is a peer mentoring program for teens with type 1 diabetes, providing personalised guidance and support.
Uni Camp for Kids
Summer Camps offer life-changing experiences for WA’s most disadvantaged children, promoting healthy living, mental and physical well-being, and helping build strong foundations. The Picnic Program supports the mental health and well-being of vulnerable children by fostering community and providing positive role modelling, aiming to enhance their sense of identity, and belonging.
The University of Western Australia
UWA is home to highly acclaimed researchers, numerous research centres and institutes that produce significant impact through cross-disciplinary research. In 2025, UWA will undertake research into childhood leukaemia, pre-term birth, anaesthesia safety and the intergenerational factors associated with disease, development, and wellbeing of children.
Variety – the Children’s Charity of WA
Variety’s Motor Mouth Camp helps give a voice to children with complex communication needs. The family-inclusive camp combines fun with intensive therapy and support from volunteer speech pathologists and occupational therapists for children who use augmentative and alternative communication devices - opening a new world of communication.
WA All Abilities Football Association
Starkick offers children with disability the support and resources they require to enable them to participate and have fun playing football in a community club environment. The Kickability program brings inclusive football to schools, fostering connection and enhancing physical and mental well-being. The Convergence Container provides a calming space for children with sensory sensitivities attending community events.
WA Country Health Service
Clinicians working within the WA Country Health Service across regional and remote WA will have the unique opportunity for specialised training in Infant Mental Health, enhancing their ability to identify and address the mental health needs of families with infants.
WA Cricket Foundation
Pilbara Aboriginal Youth Sports Connect Initiative engages Aboriginal youth in a collaborative, localised multi-sport approach fostering participation, education, and leadership. Cricket for People with a Disability breaks down barriers and improves access to healthy active community engagement for children with additional needs.
WA Disabled Sports Association
WA Disabled Sports Association programs offer children with severe and complex disabilities the opportunity to access adaptive equipment to improve physical engagement and social wellbeing, as well as build confidence, self-advocacy, problem-solving and communication through sports and recreation.
WA Mums Cottage
The Kids and Mums Thrive Program focuses on the well-being of disadvantaged and vulnerable children and their mothers. Through mentoring, practical support, and structured activities, the program aims to cultivate resilience, and stronger family connections, aiming to create positive change for families in Mandurah.
Wanslea
BESTIES is an after-school program that supports the mental health and wellbeing of vulnerable, disengaged children, aiming to foster self-worth, emotional regulation and resilience. KidsNest Playgroup supports inclusivity and empowerment of young children recently diagnosed with, or are at risk of, a disability or health condition.
Western Australia Assistance and Therapy Dogs
WAAT dogs are placed in homes with children who experience a range of disabilities. This support will provide individual care navigation for children with disabilities and their families including the journey of acquiring a therapy dog.
Wheels for Hope
Wheels for Hope delivers the gift of mobility by providing loan wheelchair accessible transport to assist WA families with disability to access medical and remedial care, education, family, and community activities.
White Zebra Foundation
The Family Sponsorship Program provides children with disabilities access to therapy services where other funding options are not available. The Equipment Loan Library allows children to trial speech output devices, improving communication and mobility. An Athletics Family Day provides children with disabilities the chance to participate in inclusive athletics events.
Women & Infants Research Foundation
The Women and Infants Research Foundation is one of Australia’s leading independent research institutions dedicated to improving the health of women, babies, and families across Australia. In 2025, WIRF will undertake research in antenatal steroid therapy, gestational diabetes, and the spectrum of placenta accreta, with the aim of supporting pre-term babies and their mums.
Youth Disability Advocacy Network
YDAN's For Us, By Us program provides young people with disability opportunities to build self-advocacy, increase social connection, and learn about frameworks of disability. The program, delivered after school by youth facilitators with lived experience, aims to reduce isolation and improve resilience.
Youth Focus
As the only youth-specialist, non-government mental health service in WA, Youth Focus ensures young people can thrive by providing access to mental health support at no-cost, when and where they need it most. Free access to counselling services will improve the lives of thousands of vulnerable young people, across metropolitan and regional WA.
YouthCARE
Pastoral Care Engagement Officers promote social, emotional and educational outcomes for students and families across WA, building resilience and increasing school engagement. DBT Skills in School is a YouthCARE and Lifeline WA collaboration supporting school students at risk of poor mental health.
zero2hero
zero2hero support WA adolescents through the provision of educational programs, camps and workshops equipping them with skills and knowledge to navigate mental health challenges. Programs will provide opportunities for vulnerable children in the Kimberley and South West regions to access activities.