Shooting Stars is proud to announce its recent partnership with the Phillips Foundation who will support the Seven Sisters program over the next three years.
The Phillips Foundation partners with charitable organisations and projects around the world that deliver education opportunities to remote or disadvantaged communities.
In particular, the Foundation focuses on programs that help young people build skills, confidence and resilience through participation in a combination of education, sport and social activities.
Thanks to the support of the Phillips Foundation, Shooting Stars is able to expand its Seven Sisters program to years 7-12 in all its sites across Western Australia.
Seven Sisters is a recurring 10-week program that draws upon Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives of social and emotional wellbeing. It provides Shooting Stars participants with opportunities to develop positive social and emotional wellbeing skills and preventative mental health strategies, enabling them to respond and adapt to emerging challenges as they progress through their life course.
At the conclusion of the program, local health service providers are engaged to help participants break down barriers so they feel comfortable accessing health services in their community as they require them.
Shooting Stars Executive Officer Fran Haintz thanked the Phillips Foundation for their support.
“The Phillips Foundation and Shooting Stars share a similar goal, to empower people in remote or disadvantaged communities, and I am honoured for the opportunity to work alongside each other to achieve this,” said Haintz.
“Our Seven Sisters project has seen some great results in just one year, and we look forward to expanding its impact to our high school participants across all of our sites.”
The Seven Sisters program was developed in response to feedback offered during yarning research conducted at all sites from 2016-2018, where participants identified emotional regulation and bullying were recurring barriers to school attendance.
