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Learning Ground alumni Maddison-Lilly Mae Jackson and Kayla Lee McLean were recently interviewed by Declan Bowring from ABC radio Sydney. 

Learning Ground participant Krista Crawley and her mother Melisa were recently featured in a 9 Honey article by Victoria Owens.

The story titled “Why mum ‘walked out of the school crying’ over a teachers comment” dived into Melissas experience with trying to navigate getting support for her daughter who was struggling day to day in the school setting. 

 Executive Director - Rumbi Mabambe was joined by Charmaine Milsom, Manager School and Family Liaison and Cassandra Jackson LGiS Coordinator for the 2024 Sydney Morning Herald Schools Summit.  

For the past two decades, the Chain Reaction Foundation has been at the forefront of community empowerment, inspiring and equipping people to become agents of change in their communities.

Mt Druitt Learning Ground, a community-led initiative, has been recognised as an exceptional project in a not-for-profit organisation at the 2022 ZEST award.

Each Nation has a story, each Nation has a dreaming, each Nation has its own customs, and each Nation has a protocol.

Nature vs nurture. There has been much conjecture over the relationship between these two concepts, especially in relation to criminality or misdeeds. When a shocking crime story hits the headlines, the first place the tabloid media goes to in order to craft a story is often the family of the alleged perpetrator, to discover how the villainous character was shaped by his or her upbringing.

If this doesn't turn up anything interesting, then the individual is simply written off as a bad apple.

But is character not more complex than this?

So much of our personal philosophy and thought – so much of the way we consider ourselves, and the world around us – is based on character. This is the way we judge ourselves and the way we judge others. And you can be sure that this is how other people judge us, too.

Mental health is another area in which Movember has been pursuing real change for men across the world. Here in Australia, mental illness is a serious issue, with one in five adult Australians experiencing a mental illness in any given year.