Entries by Leigh Sinclair

Imagined Futures Annual Story

2023 marked the 10th year anniversary of the Imagined Futures partnership. It is a remarkable milestone given that, despite delivering on strategic priorities, most of its work sits outside of established funding pathways. Remarkably, four members of our Leadership Group have been on our journey since the beginning – Michael Piu, Leanne Hartill, Julie Mitchell, […]

Imagined Futures Funding Announcement

We’re thrilled to share that Imagined Futures has been awarded funding from the Stan Perron Charitable Foundation. Their generous funding is a contribution toward the resourcing that we need for us to continue the momentum that we have built over the last 10 years delivering on a range of projects that promote the health and […]

Navigating Children’s Mental Health Services in the South West metro region

The Imagined Futures Community of Practice delivered another impactful workshop today – this time aimed at building the capacity of service providers to navigate the service system to improve support for children experiencing mental ill-health and their families. This collaborative effort brought together 40 people from 22 agencies spanning government, non-profit agencies, and private practice. […]

Djeran Day

Imagined Future’s Djeran Cultural Connections Day, was a special event connecting Aboriginal kids in care with family, community and culture. The event brought together 58 children in care and their families and carers and local service providers. It was an emotional day, with some children meeting their siblings for the first time, but above all […]

Understanding Family and Domestic Violence

The Imagined Futures Community of Practice hosted a second workshop, Understanding Family and Domestic Violence, for frontline workers in the South West Metro region. This interactive training session, led by Communicare, focused on understanding the signs of abuse and practical strategies to safely support someone experiencing family and domestic violence. The City of Fremantle provided […]

Imagined Futures sets its priorities for 2024

The Imagined Futures Leadership Group recently came together to plan its work for the coming year.  The group not only agreed key focus areas, but also identified how the partnership can foster catalysts that will increase our collective impact across all the priority areas. To read the Plan click here  

Uniting to tackle homelessness: Launch of the South Metropolitan Regional Homelessness and Housing Plan

Leaders from across the Southern Metropolitan corridor – spanning Fremantle down to Waroona – came together last Tuesday to launch a joint Homelessness and Housing Plan for the region.  Local partnership Imagined Futures[1] spearheaded the development of the plan. As in other parts of the State and indeed the rest of Australia, the South Metropolitan […]

South Metropolitan Regional Homeless and Housing Plan

Imagined Future is proud to present the South Metropolitan Regional Homelessness and Housing Plan, which guides a whole-of-community approach toward improving outcomes for people experiencing, or at-risk of experiencing homelessness in the south Metropolitan Region. As in other parts of the State and indeed Australia, the South Metropolitan Region of WA is experiencing record low […]

Building the capacity of front line workers to support people at risk of experiencing Family and Domestic Violence

The Imagined Futures Community of Practice held its third networking/ capacity building event for human service providers in the South West Metro region today.  This time the group chose to focus on offering a workshop on Understanding Family Domestic Violence in line with the 16 Days in WA campaign’s theme – stopping family and domestic […]

Kambarang Connections Day for Aboriginal Children in Care

Last Friday, Imagined Futures partners came together to host our fourth connecting Aboriginal children in care event. The purpose of these events is to deepen connections to sources of enduring natural support – family and culture. To do this, a feature of these events is that they are held regularly so that connections can be […]