Who is Shooting Stars?
Shooting Stars is a school-based engagement program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and young women. It's an initiative of Glass Jar Australia, driving the vision: Empowered Aboriginal girls and women. The program offers advocacy, support, opportunities and the tools and resources that open the door to self-determination, empowering each young woman to reach her full potential. Program staff, most of whom are Aboriginal women, walk alongside Shooting Stars participants throughout their schooling journeys, encouraging the development of confidence, cultural identity, positive relationships and positive wellbeing. No two communities are the same, so the Shooting Stars program is place-based, and community-led. Working in collaboration with our host schools, localised steering committees, community members and the participants themselves, we are able to tailor program delivery at each Shooting Stars site to ensure it is relevant, responsive and truly empowering.About Us
22
Sites Operating
1,200+
Empowered Participants
60+
Empowered Employees
100+
Yarns Conducted
Our Projects
Art with the Stars
Through the Art with the Stars Project, Shooting Stars uses arts-based research methods to evaluate the program. This form of research was chosen as art making is a fundamental part of Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and doing.
Kaya Kwopetok Koorlang Yok
Kaya Kwopetok Koorlang Yok: Dear Beautiful Young Woman is a celebration of 28 incredible women who have shared what 'success' means to them.
Pathways
The Shooting Stars Leadership Program helps close the gap for young Aboriginal women leaders by strengthening participants’ positive profiles and developing their leadership capability and capacity.
Research
Through our research – which is grounded in Aboriginal ways of knowing, being, and doing, and provides a platform for our participant's and communities voices – Shooting Stars challenges the status quo.
Deadly Minds Matter
The Deadly Minds Matter program, formerly known as 'Seven Sisters', will provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander girls and women with opportunities to develop positive social and emotional wellbeing skills and preventative mental health strategies.
Sparks
The Sparks program aims to support participants on their education journey, helping them to identify and develop their spark and passions in years 8-10.