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APPLICATIONS FOR NEW DIRECTORS NOW OPEN

The Good Life Farm provides essential animal-assisted learning opportunities for at risk or troubled children and young people. Based at Chum Creek near Healesville Victoria we provide unique, intensive and tailored farm-based programs to assist with social skills and development.

Forming a skilled and committed board, Directors support the CEO and small team of staff by ensuring support is available as required, that our service offerings grow and expand and that we remain sustainable into the long-term future.

You will be joining the Board at a crucial stage of our development as we respond to a key evaluation exercise and seek strategic corporate and service delivery partnerships.

We wish to supplement the existing Board by seeking people with skills and experiences in one or more of the following areas:

  • Legal
  • Finance and Investment
  • Governance and Risk
  • Strategic Planning & Business Development
  • Digital Transformation
  • Public Relations and Advocacy

Preparedness to commit time and energy is essential. All board positions are voluntary.

If you would like to discuss any aspect, please contact our Chairperson, Mr Frank Dixon on 0400 054 688.

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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.

I wish to thank all the Good Life Farm staff for their hard efforts.

Participant Parent

The impact of the program has meant that S has been able to build an identity of self and to connect with people from a strengths based perspective – solid ground.

S found the environment at the Farm a very safe place which I am sad to say he has not had at school or in some family environments.

This term 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. He shared with me your reflections on him and his journey at The Good Life Farm and it brought me to tears to think how much pain he was in before he found you.

I am so grateful for the loving kindness, support and space you and the animals have shown him. I am so proud of my young man and know that moments he shared with you are going to help him for the rest of his life.

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.

Thank you for all that you do.

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.”

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.