Shooting Stars was named among the successful recipients of the 100 Women 2020 grant round last Friday night for its new subsidiary program, Seven Sisters.
Seven Sisters provides Aboriginal girls and women with opportunities to develop positive social and emotional wellbeing skills and preventative mental health strategies.
The ten-week program, recently piloted at our Narrogin site, uses netball as a space to teach participants emotional regulation strategies and was developed in line with Aboriginal concepts of health, applying a holistic model of connection to seven different spheres of life: culture, land, physical self, mental self, community, family/kinship and ancestors/spirituality.
100 Women invests in charities that empower women and girls. Established by a passionate group of talented women their mission is to advance the safety, health, education and economic freedom of women and girls.
Since its inception in 2014, 100 Women has given away roughly $100,000, each year, to three or four community organisations supporting women and girls both locally in Western Australia, right across Australia as well as internationally.
Shooting Stars Executive Officer Fran Haintz said the 100 Women grant will allow Shooting Stars to further develop its Seven Sisters program and implement it across all its sites in 2021.
“We are so thankful to have been named among the successful recipients of the 100 Women grants,” said Haintz.
“With the help of this grant, Shooting Stars will be able to extend its Seven Sisters program into more of its sites across WA which will have a real impact on our participants.”
“The program was developed to equip our participants with the skills to respond and adapt to emerging challenges as they progress through the life course, after bullying was recognised as a recurring theme as a barrier for school attendance.”
Shooting Stars plans to implement the Seven Sisters program to all primary school Shooting Stars sites in 2021, with the hope to launch an adapted version for Shooting Stars high school participants the following year and then open the program up to regional Netball WA clubs.
