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Create a world where

young people thrive

One in four young people experience poor social and emotional wellbeing.

We build life skills, confidence, hope and resilience.

Trauma-informed with qualified staff. Experience the power of the farm.

Breaking the cycle to help young people reengage with community.

All in the calming presence of nature and animals.

Trauma-informed and operating since 2005.

Qualified, experienced staff from all walks of life.

Independently proven to increase social skills, confidence and feelings of self-worth.

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By sponsoring a young person, you’re giving them the chance to feel safe, confident and connected again. Your support helps them build real skills, return to school and re-engage with friends and family.

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Leave a gift in your will

When you leave a gift in your will – large or small – you are empowering us to continue our work in transforming and sustaining change for vulnerable young people, well into the future.

The Good Life Farm has partnered with Gathered Here, Australia’s largest and most trusted end-of-life services, to help you create and maintain a valid will for free.

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By donating your valuable container refunds at your nearest refund point, you can help us to deliver the Life and Social Skills program to more vulnerable young people.

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Principal, Chum Creek Primary School

Lesley and the staff at Good Life Farm build a wonderful rapport with participating students and this facilitates open discussion about appropriate behaviours and the effects of inappropriate behaviours on others.

Participant Parent

W's involvement in the Farm this term has certainly been beneficial.

He is finding ways to deal with his anger and anxiety that has impacted his ability to go to school the past few years.

He is in a much happier space and the consistent approach farm has provided him has improved his self-esteem and wellbeing.

Participant Parent

I have seen S grow into a young person who is taking some first steps into the world such as his first job. Prior to his attendance at the Farm, his experience was too overwhelming for him to make sense of it. S has a direction forward and concrete experiences of kindness, respect, excellence and commitment that he gained through his time at the Farm. It takes a village to raise a child - and the Farm has been part of that village for S.

Participant Parent

I want to thank you for all that you have done to help J become the amazing person that he is. In a super stressful time where we often didn't know what to do next, he found a place at Good Life Farm where he could recover his sense of self and heal from the traumas and misunderstanding and school. I am excited for him to face the world with all that you have helped him know about himself.

Assistance Principle, Healesville Primary School

“In our experience, students attending the program have become more engaged with school, developed greater resilience and strategies to assist with conflict resolution and recognition of the impact their behaviour has on other people.”

Thank you to our generous sponsors and to everyone we work with

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We acknowledge and respect the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the traditional custodians of this land since time immemorial. We are learning that the land is not ours to own, but to look after and that if we listen, we may hear in it the calling of the eternal Spirit. Responding to this call, we commit ourselves to work for justice, reconciliation and care of the earth.