Early Years Education

Providing access and opportunity to young people.

Education is crucial to enabling young children to develop skills, knowledge, language, and social connections that underpin their life journey. The Foundation supports children needing additional supports in primary and high school years to maximise their ability to thrive and to continue on to achieve their potential over their lifetime.

The award-winning Education Pathways Program (EPP) run by Launch Housing aims to reduce the number of primary school children who miss school as a result of experiencing homelessness. EPP identifies and assists children with educational learning gaps, linking them to schools and providing supports like speech pathology services for young children as is needed.

The Smith Family works to empower people to change their lives and break cycles of disadvantage through education. The Foundation is a supporter of Learning for Life, a program that provides emotional, practical and financial support to disadvantaged children with their education, building skills, knowledge, motivation, connection and confidence to remain engaged, and supports them through primary and high school and tertiary and TAFE study.