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The bigger picture
Follow one young person the long way. Walked alongside through care. Grounded in who they are. Ready for what comes next. Then a real job, a steady adult life, and children of their own who never see the inside of the care system.
That arc is what Dreaming Futures is for.
Dreaming Futures is where the Buneen Group's long work begins. Identity and readiness first, through on-Country programs, mentoring, and life skills. Then a pathway into lasting work, with Buneen Employment, a partner organisation, not a parent.
From care, to readiness, to work, to a life that holds. The whole arc, joined up.
Heal one child while ten more are removed, and the numbers never move. So we work on the system as well as the child.
We bring the practitioner voice to care reform, from inside the work rather than from the sidelines. Policy submissions. Partnerships with Recognised Aboriginal Parties. Time at the table with government.
This is our share of Closing the Gap Target 13, which sets out to cut the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in care by 45 per cent by 2031, and of the Family Matters goal of ending over-representation within a generation, by 2040.
Dreaming Futures has been a registered charity since 2021. A public benevolent institution with DGR Item 1 status, so a gift of two dollars or more is tax-deductible.
This is the build year. Raising the funds, recruiting the board, standing up the cultural advisory group, readying the first programs. Registered and real, not in formation.
We tell you what the charity has, and what it is still building. Never more than that.