Our current funders
At present, we have no current funders for the ongoing project. This impacts our ability to be able to produce free, resource-based resources for children from military, veteran and first responder families.
While we partner with organisations, the funding they provide directly supports the graphic design of our free, research-based bibliotherapy books.
What we need:
a) $1000AUD/year to update our free, personalised programs
b) $5000AUD/year to update and support our website
c) $21,000AUD/year to provide a research assistant/project officer one day per week to free up the researchers
d) $65,000AUD/year to provide teaching relief for our researchers so they can work on research, evaluation and co-creation
e) $10,000AUD/year to evaluate the resources
f) $5000AUD/year to update our modules for parents, educators and support workers
g) $3000AUD/year to disseminate our resources, including printing flyers and books for displays
h) $5000AUD/year to pay those with lived and living experience for their contributions to the project (e.g. co-creation support)
Funds for particular resources
For particular resources, the following organisations are going to provide cash funding and in-kind support for:
2027 Neurodiversity within service families storybook and modules (currently searching for funders).
2026 Parental relationship breakdown storybook and modules for service children whose parents separate. (Funding from Trenton Military Family Resource Centre).
2026 Benefits of being in a service family storybook and modules (cash funding from the Canadian Institute of Military Veteran Health Research).
2025 Complex-PTSD bibliotherapy storybook for those children whose parents have C-PTSD. (Funding from Combat Stress, King’s Centre for Miltary Health Research, Bath University, the UK Psychological Trauma Society and the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies).
In partnership with:
Our previous funders
The Ian Potter Foundation is one of Australia’s major philanthropic foundations. The Foundation makes grants nationally to support charitable organisations working to benefit the community across a wide range of sectors, including the arts, environment, science, medical research, education and community wellbeing. The Ian Potter Foundation aims to support and promote a healthy, vibrant, fair and sustainable Australia.
The University of New England is a rural, regional university situated in the university city of Armidale, NSW, Australia. Originally part of the University of Sydney, it is now independent and was the first university in Australia to offer distance education. Today, it is a leader in online education and many types of research.
The Manna Institute is an interdisciplinary, multi-university regional, rural, and remote mental health research and training institute. They have provided in-kind support to many projects since 2021.
Associate of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies
Each year, the Foundation of Graduates in Early Childhood Studies fund projects that benefit communities through early childhood education through their Forest Hill Grant scheme. We have received two lots of funding. The first lot provided money to make interactives for two of our bibliotherapy children’s books for those whose parents have service related physical and mental health issues. Another round of funding provided some money towards a storybook to support children whose parents have a moral injury.
Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Each year, this organisation award prizes to various Australian projects. We were joint winners for the ‘Distinctive Work’ award for 2022 ‘‘The jury commended the work for its significant contribution to supporting children and their families and your innovative, creative methods used in doing so’. You can see our award listing here.
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