young people
Alcohol Education Workshop proves a hit with students!
The Burdekin Association recently conducted an Alcohol Education Workshop as part of the Canada Bay Youth Space Project, in collaboration with Concord High School. Thirty Year 9 students actively participated in these informative sessions. Throughout the workshops, Year 9 students...
Community Matters
We are always saying how much our community matters to us, especially at Christmas - because we mean it. The Burdekin Association can honestly do so much, because of you. We'd like to shout out a big thank you to...
We’ve been awarded a FutureSteps Grant!
The Burdekin Association is excited to reveal that we are the recipient of a FutureSteps Grant of $89,000 to be spent on renovating one of the houses we manage for young people transitioning from out of home care to semi-independent living...
Foster Care and Kinship Week 2023
"More than 100 vulnerable children and young people are living in alternative emergency housing, such as hotels and motels, as the child protection system faces a dire shortage of Foster Carers," reported Amber Schultz in The Sun Herald on September...
Professor Brian Burdekin on ABC Radio National
Click here to listen to the radio interview. The Burdekin Association's Patron and Australia’s first Federal Human Rights Commissioner, Professor Brian Burdekin AO spent over 30 years advocating for the needs of children - those with disabilities and mental illness....