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Coming home to culture.
We walk alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in out-of-home care, from childhood into adulthood, grounded in identity, connection, and opportunity.
On Country, with Elders and cultural mentors, young people find where they come from and where they're going.
A system outcome, not a story about children.
Care, as it works now, too often cuts young people off from culture, kinship, and Country. And when one generation is removed, the next is more likely to be removed too. That is how the cycle repeats.
It isn't inevitable. The cycle is the consequence of a system, and systems can be changed. We change it by walking alongside young people, and by bringing the practitioner voice to care-system reform, from inside the work.
Whole-of-life programs, built on culture.
For young Aboriginal people in care, ages 5 to 25. Healing here is cultural and relational, never clinical.
On-Country programs
Multi-day cultural and life-skills experiences with cultural mentors, Elders, and full on-Country safety. Run as brave spaces.
Mentoring
One-to-one and group mentoring with people who carry both cultural authority and lived experience.
Life skills & leadership
Financial literacy, employment readiness, and decision-making, building on the strengths young people already bring.
Pathways to work
The structural connection from care into long-term employment, in partnership with Buneen Employment.
System advocacy
The practitioner voice on care-system reform, spoken from inside the work, alongside community.
A pathway that carries through care, into work, into futures that don't return their children to care.
Culture heals. Connection builds futures.
A child who is culturally safe is safer. Four anchors shape every program.
Safe
Cultural safety is a condition we build, not a promise. Reading our work should feel like sitting somewhere warm.
Proud
Proud of culture, of the young people, of the pathway.
Community-rooted
We speak from inside community, one of the parties at the table, never for it from outside.
Future-focused
We name hard truths only to point to what we're building next.
Walk alongside. Not in front, not behind.
Registered and real, and building for launch.
Honesty builds trust. Here's exactly where the charity is, and what your support builds next.
A registered charity since 2021
ACNC-registered, Public Benevolent Institution, DGR endorsed. Donations are tax-deductible.
A proven foundation
Built on the founder's on-Country track record, across 50+ schools and 20,000+ students.
Building now In progress
Raising funds, recruiting the board, and standing up the cultural advisory group.
Ready to launch
The programs are ready. The board, funding, and governance around them are what we're building this year.
Your support doesn't fund a promise. It builds the foundations a generation of young people will stand on.
We report what we have and what we're still building. Always.
Help build itYour support, made specific.
No vague promises. Every gift underwrites real work on Country.
Dreaming Futures is DGR endorsed. Donations of $2 or more are tax-deductible. Children's stories are never used to fundraise.
Part of something that doesn't let go at 18.
Dreaming Futures is where the Buneen Group's longitudinal work begins: identity and readiness first, then a real pathway into lasting work.
Dreaming Futures
Builds cultural identity, healing, and readiness for young people in care.
Buneen Employment
Places young people into work and stays alongside them.
Buneen Consulting
Makes the organisations they join culturally safe.
The pathway
Care → culture → work → futures that don't return their children to care.