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KIDS Foundation Every day Foundation the team at has the been KIDS operating Foundationsince devotes time anda resources empowering and The KIDS 1993, with number oftohighly successful educating their families on ways to prevent trauma associated with programschildren making and a significant positive impact on theinjuries lives ofand many children and their events that put children in dangerous situations. That is how KIDS gets its acronym ‘Kids In families. Dangerous Situations’. The KIDS Foundation has been operating since 1993, with a number of highly successful Mission programs making a significant positive impact on the lives of many children and their families. Our mission is to keep children safe and create a better life for those living with serious trauma, injury and burns.
What we do
The KIDS Foundation supports children who have experienced horrific injuries, harm and trauma caused by burns, Mission accidents, dog attacks, crime, neglect, abuse and environmental events, and educates and empowers children to prevent them, reaching children eachthe year. Our mission is to ensure400,000 that every child has right to be safe - free from injury and harm. We help children to be safe and to create a better life for those living with serious trauma, injury, and burns.
Injury Prevention
Our prevention programs educate and empower children to build a strong sense of identity and wellbeing so that What we themselves do they can keep and others safe while still allowing them to be kids. Educating children through the SeeMore Safety Program iseducate our focus. Our prevention programs and empower children to build a strong sense of identity and wellbeing so that they can keep themselves and others safe while still allowing them to be kids. Educating children through the SeeMore Program is our focus. InjurySafety Recovery
Our attacks, Our recovery recovery programs programs support support children children with with horrific horrific injuries injuries and and trauma trauma caused caused by by burns, burns, accidents, accidents, dog dog attacks, crime, crime, neglect, neglect, abuse abuse and and environmental environmental events. events. We We deliver deliver injury injury recovery recovery camps, camps, leadership leadership workshops workshops and and the the National Burn Survivors Network’. National Burn Survivors’ Network. Our self-worth, Our advocacy advocacy work work gives gives children children aa voice voice and and agency agency in in their their own own learning. learning. We We empower empower them them to to build build self-worth, wellbeing, wellbeing, respectful respectful relationships, relationships, values values and and behaviours behaviours that that allow allow them them to to become become responsible responsible risk risk takers takers and and contributors to society. contributors to society.
Address: Building 29, Ballarat Airport Airport Road Mitchell Park, Victoria 3355 Postal: PO Box 12, Wendouree, Victoria 3355 Phone: 1300 734 733 Email: administration@kidsfoundation.org.au www.kidsfoundation.org.au
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