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SPONSOR A CHILD

About our sponsorship program

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.

The Good Life Farm aims to give every troubled young person a fresh chance by instilling life skills, confidence, hope and resilience.

Many of our young people are people whom no other organisation or schools will take in. We work with them to make positive changes to their lives through guided experiences with animals and nature on our small farm.

How much does it cost?

$3180 per child per term.

Who do we help?

Young people who aren’t able to access our program due to:

socio-economic disadvantage

existing vulnerabilities

further isolation from the community, education providers and services throughout COVID-19.

All young people are between the age of 7 and 17.

What does a sponsored child receive?

Each sponsored child receives one free term of our Life and Social Skills Program here at the Good Life Farm.

The ten week Life and Social Skills program was developed in 2005 to support, nurture and assist our most at-risk, disengaged children and youth within schools and the community.

It has been successful in reducing a number of challenges such as anxiety, extreme oppositional behaviour, school refusal, over sexualisation, bullying and aggressive behaviour.

This program contributes to the health and wellbeing of young people by providing practical life skills, positive educational experiences and mentoring on a small, mixed working farm.

Our program is unique in its offering, as our model of care is founded on animal-assisted learning and education, with various animals.

For more information about the Life and Social Skills program, see our Programs page.

$3180 will change a young person’s life

Price: $ 3,180.00
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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.