5 minute read
About the KIDS Foundation
KIDS Foundation
The KIDS Foundation has been operating since 1993, with a number of highly successful Every day the team at the KIDS Foundation devotes time and resources to empowering and programs making a significant positive impact on the lives of many children and their educating children and their families on ways to prevent injuries and trauma associated with families. events that put children in dangerous situations. That is how KIDS gets its acronym - ‘Kids In Dangerous Situations’. The KIDS Foundation has been operating since 1993, with a number of highly successful programs making a significant positive impact on the lives of many children and their families.
Mission 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, accidents, dog attacks, crime, neglect, abuse and environmental events, and educates and empowers children to Mission prevent them, reaching 400,000 children each year. Our mission is to ensure that every child has the 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 they can keep themselves and others safe while still allowing them to be kids. Educating children through the What we do SeeMore Safety Program is our focus. Our prevention programs educate 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 Injury Recovery SeeMore Safety Program is our focus. Our recovery programs support children with horrific injuries and trauma caused by burns, accidents, dog attacks, crime, neglect, abuse and environmental events. We deliver injury recovery camps, leadership workshops and the National Burn Survivors’ Network. Our advocacy work gives children a voice and agency in their own learning. We empower them to build self-worth, wellbeing, respectful relationships, values and behaviours that allow them to become responsible risk takers and contributors to society.
Our recovery programs support children with horrific injuries and trauma caused by burns, accidents, dog attacks, crime, neglect, abuse and environmental events. We deliver injury recovery camps, leadership workshops and the National Burn Survivors Network’. Our advocacy work gives children a voice and agency in their own learning. We empower them to build self-worth, wellbeing, respectful relationships, values and behaviours that allow them to become responsible risk takers and contributors to society. twitter.com/kidsfoundation facebook.com/thekidsfoundation instagram.com/thekidsfoundation
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
Chairman & CEO’s Report
The start of the 2019-2020 financial year was shaping up to be an excellent year of consolidation and growth. Thanks to you, KIDS Foundation programs reached 10,000 early learning centres across Australia, 450,000 books were printed for kindergarten children, four of our seven planned injury and trauma recovery camps took place in WA, QLD, SA and VIC with the remaining were replaced with virtual catch ups.
Early in 2020 we were hit by the devastating impact of the bushfires. The affected communities and their people were close to our heart. For some families this was not the first-time fire had caused them to face unimaginable trauma. Every day the team at KIDS devotes time and resources to help survivors rebuild their lives, as well as empowering and educating children and their families on ways to prevent the emotional and physical injuries and trauma associated to events that put children in dangerous situations.
Roy Bennett
When the first wave of the pandemic hit, with bushfires still remaining at the top of mind, we did everything we could to reduce the COVID-19 impact on KIDS. We jumped into action to ensure that we were in the best position possible to come out of this stronger and more connected with our audiences than ever before. We implemented a strong twelve-month delivery structure and strategies to continue in a similar vein beyond this. All our injury prevention and recovery programs continued to be delivered in different ways. Sadly, our events and campaigns were put on pause until an appropriate time to bring them back.
However, we were given something some of us regularly experience freely - ‘TIME’. For many of us, we didn’t have to be anywhere at any certain time, at any certain moment. Looking around, we could see inspiration everywhere, people finding their best self and learning from others. We did the same at KIDS. We took time to create, be inspired and become the best support service for our educators, families and children.
The KIDS Foundation has been around for 27 years and has weathered many challenges. We will come through this situation stronger and more resilient. We will continue to evolve and adapt to each new challenge and opportunity we face. Our team will be innovative on how we respond to enable us to empower more children than ever before to prevent and recovery from injuries.
We are proud to be working collaboratively with a number of education and health facilities, organisations and partners across Australia to continue education innovation, research and advocacy programs to ensure children receive the best chance of a healthy and safe life.
As a supporter of our work, we send a warm thank you. It is because of your help we are able to enrich the lives of the courageous and inspirational young people we work with.
Our gratitude goes to our devoted KIDS Team - the Board, the staff, patron, ambassadors, volunteers, sponsors and donors of the Foundation who carry the passion for KIDS Foundation with them wherever they go.
Dr Susie O’Neill Founder and CEO Jo Stuckey Chairman
