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Sponsor a child

Our child sponsorship program gives you a chance to help a young person participate in our 10-week intensive life and skills program for the first time.

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Partner with us

The Good Life Farm is on a growth journey. We’re looking for partners to help us achieve our goals. Reach out for more information on how we can work with you.

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Register for a student placement

The Good Life Farm accepts students doing social work, youth work, counselling and psychology degrees for term placements. Contact us for more information.

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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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Why don’t you use a special day or event to raise money for us. We’re a registered charity on Facebook, so head over to our Facebook page and start the process now.

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Good Life Farm operates on philanthropic contributions from organisations and people like you. Your donations go towards the upkeep of the farm, development of new services and our plans to extend the program to other areas.

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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.