Partnerships
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Our partnership with Assistant Dogs Australia began in 2012. Assistant Dogs Australia trains and places unique dogs with Australians in unique situations. This funding is set up for the training of service dogs which provide practical assistance and companionship to wheelchair users.
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BackTrack keeps kids alive, out of jail and chasing their hopes and dreams. The organisation helps vulnerable young people to develop work and life skills, engage in learning and training, prepare for and transition into employment and participate in their community. It achieves this through a combination of educational, training and diversionary activities, residential accommodation, supported employment and wraparound youth work. Our partnership with BackTrack began in 2013.
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Hear Our Heart provides a free mobile hearing screening and education program for all children accessing early childcare centres, primary, and secondary schools across the Orana region of NSW. Children who are identified with hearing issues are referred for specialist clinical/educational intervention.
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The Walter and Eliza Hall Trust works with the Public Education Foundation to provide up to 5 scholarships annually for Year 12 public high school students with a physical disability who intend to undertake tertiary studies on completion of their secondary education.
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In August 2021, we agreed to provide funding to Street Side Medics for a period of three years. Street Side Medics is a unique organisation which provides a mobile general practitioner service to reach the homeless community across multiple locations. They provide no questions asked healthcare to people who are experiencing homelessness.
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We currently provide funding for medical research via the a fellowship. Established by the Walter and Eliza Hall Trust in 1915, WEHI is Australia’s oldest and longest serving medical research institute. For more than 100 years, WEHI researchers have been making transformative discoveries in cancers, infectious and immune diseases, developmental disorders and healthy ageing. WEHI brings together multidisciplinary teams comprised of world-leading experts from a range of diverse scientific disciplines, all committed to creating a brighter, healthier future for all.
