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What we do
A fire, a few days, an Elder who has all the time in the world. Cultural mentors who have walked the same road. A young person in care, for once at the centre of the room, not the edge of a process.
That is where Dreaming Futures begins.
We walk with young Aboriginal people in care, from five years old to twenty-five. Early childhood to adulthood, the whole arc.
They are in kinship care, foster care, and residential care. We walk alongside them. We don't take over from the care system, and we don't carry the statutory responsibilities that sit with it.
The heart of the model, and most of what we do. Multi-day camps run as brave spaces, with cultural mentors, Elders, and full on-Country safety. Identity is affirmed here. Connection is built here.
One-to-one and in groups, with mentors who carry both cultural authority and lived experience. The same faces, over years, not weeks.
Money, work-readiness, leadership, decisions. Practical skills, always grown from the cultural foundation, never split off from it.
The bridge from care into lasting work, built with Buneen Employment, a partner in the work. Identity and readiness first, then a real job at the end of it.
The practitioner voice on care reform, spoken from inside the work. Policy submissions, partnerships with Recognised Aboriginal Parties, time at the table with government.
Young people carrying their voice to other First Nations peoples, across Australia, the Pacific, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States, including the Children as Actors Transforming Society conference.
Every young person deserves to know where they come from, and where they're going.
The programs are built and ready. This year we are raising the funds, recruiting the board, and standing up the cultural advisory group, so the first young people can take their seat by the fire.