Your Stories. Stronger Together
Looking back at CREATE’s Voices in Action conference “Sharing a space and voice can bring about immense power and change. To amplify your voice is also to empower the one beside you. Speak up, our stories are stronger together.” – 2024 Young Delegate More photos below. Over three days, CREATE’s Voices in Action conference brought […]
2024 Victorian Protecting Children Awards are now open!
Do you know an awesome carer, worker or program that has made a positive difference in your life? Have they helped you to have a voice and make you feel listened to? At CREATE we want to help you to tell them how much they rock! Since 2013, the CREATE Award has been part of […]
Residential Care Victoria
Content warning: This post contains information about violence and murder. CREATE is deeply concerned by claims (originally reported by the Herald Sun) that a residential care provider in Victoria gave its staff fake training certificates from an education provider that did not exist. It is also distressing to hear about further claims that children did […]
CREATE TAS election priorities 2024
Get ready TAS, election day is Saturday, 23 March! In the weeks leading up to the election, CREATE Foundation is calling on all sides of Government to prioritise the needs of children, young people with a care experience, and vulnerable families. Tasmania has 1,028 children and young people in out-of-home care, which is the third […]
Meet CREATE Mate, Tess.
Our CREATE Mates are part of an active network of individuals within organisations who promote CREATE activities and events and encourage everyone in your office to join up their children and young people to clubCREATE.
Governments must transition away from Residential Care
Content warning: This post contains information about child sexual and physical abuse CREATE is deeply concerned by the story on ABC’s 7.30 last night about the sexual exploitation of children in residential care in Victoria. 7.30 revealed that in the last nine months, there have been 125 reports made to the commission of children and […]
Invasion Day
This post contains information about January 26 and maybe upsetting for some people to read. We acknowledge that this land always was and always will be Aboriginal land, we pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and elders past, present and emerging. We pay respects and acknowledge the continuation of connection […]
It’s time to Raise the Age to 14 in South Australia
CREATE Foundation welcomes the announcement that the South Australian Government will consider raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility. However, raising the age from 10 to 12 does not go far enough. CREATE Foundation calls on the South Australian Government to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14 years in line with medical expert […]
CREATE Farewells Dr Joseph McDowall
CREATE farewells Dr Joseph McDowall as Board Member and Executive Director of Research after many years of service and dedication. The Board acknowledges the stellar work of Dr McDowall and his significant contribution to CREATE’s research agenda.
