Wunan Foundation

New Childcare Centre to Open in Kununurra Following Successful Partnership Between Wunan and One Tree

Wunan — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 05:29:42 +0000

The Wunan Foundation and One Tree Community Services won a bid to establish an Early Learning Centre in Kununurra. Dubbed the Pindan Early Education and Care Centre, it will aim to eventually accommodate up to 38 children meeting the community’s demand for quality childcare. Wunan, as the lead organisation, secured the funding under the Community Childcare Fund Restricted (CCCFR) Expansion…

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Lights, camera, action!

Wunan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:09:14 +0000

The Wunan Media team are excited to unveil eight brand new multimedia projects aimed at inspiring students and people on welfare to pursue their dream careers. The video project has been funded by the East Kimberley Job Pathways following the success of an initial career pathway video which was created last year for the Kimberley’s Aboriginal Pastoral Academy. Special thanks to Department of…

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Introducing ‘The Walk’, a New Youth Diversionary Program led by Wunan

Wunan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:05:55 +0000

The Wunan Foundation, a well-established Aboriginal Controlled Community organisation, has successfully proposed a new youth diversionary program called “The Bedford Downs Stock Route Walk”, having received the official seal of approval from the Western Australian state government. The initiative promises to introduce a new way of providing intervention and prevention support for young people…

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Headspace Kununurra is here to stay!

Wunan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:57:56 +0000

The Wunan Foundation has successfully been awarded a three-year extension to continue delivering Headspace to the Kununurra community until June 2026. The program has proved an invaluable initiative for the Kimberley community, supporting young people aged 12-25 through four key focus areas, these being mental health, physical and sexual health, alcohol and other drugs…

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Target 120 Touches Down in Halls Creek

Wunan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:54:49 +0000

The Wunan Foundation has successfully received grant funding to provide early intervention for 10 at-risk young people aged between 10 and 14 years, and their families, to reduce rates of juvenile reoffending. The Halls Creek based program is part of a broader statewide program, dubbed Target 120 that is designed to bring agency resources together to support young people at risk of becoming…

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Wunan Joins Forces with the LifeChanger Foundation

Wunan — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 03:49:45 +0000

For the first time ever, the LifeChanger Foundation will be coming to the Kimberley, thanks to a promising new partnership formed with the Wunan Foundation in an effort to foster resilience and self-confidence in at-risk-youth. The project seeks to recruit and build the capacity of local mentors who can work effectively with Kununurra-based youth services to provide local level leadership…

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Lily Lagoon Resort Set to Welcome 17 New Indigenous Staff Members Following Successful $1.26M Grant Bid

Wunan — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 05:17:53 +0000

Thursday, 18 January 2024 Lily Lagoon Resort, a leading accommodation provider and one of the few Aboriginal owned and operated resorts in the Kimberley, is set to welcome 17 new Indigenous staff members following a successful bid for a $1,265,460 grant aimed at creating Indigenous employment and training opportunities in Community Development Program (CDP) communities. The grant…

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Kimberley Education Excellence Program

Wunan — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:24:00 +0000

Applications NOW OPEN! KEEP gives young Aboriginal people from the Kimberley access to a high-quality education, a supportive environment and an extensive range of extracurricular opportunities! Applications close on the Friday 29th of September, 2023! Please share amongst your family, with friends and your networks. To download our application form and email us with the…

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Wunan Foundation cyber-incident update

Kinski & Bourke — Wed, 17 May 2023 02:12:46 +0000

As previously announced in late March 2023, Wunan Foundation experienced a cyber-security incident where an unidentified third-party may have gained unauthorised access to an area of the Wunan Foundation IT environment. Upon discovery of the incident, we engaged leading external cyber-security and forensic IT experts to support us in securing our IT environment and to investigate what may…

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Wunan Foundation cyber-incident

Nikki — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:56:02 +0000

Wunan Foundation today advised that it had recently experienced a cyber-security incident where an unidentified third party may have gained unauthorised access to an area of the Wunan Foundation IT environment. For clarity, Wunan Health and Wellbeing Centre is a separate entity to Wunan Foundation and is not involved in this cyber-security incident. Wunan Foundation is also aware that it…

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