Imagined Futures has had a busy few months delivering a number of projects across our working groups, such as the launch of the  Fremantle Zero project prospectus developed through our Homelessness and Housing Group, the 7th Cultural Connections event for Aboriginal Children in Care to connect to family, culture and community supported through our Children and Young People working group and Burnout and Self-Care training, initiated by the Open Door Community of Practice, to provide strategies and tools for frontline workers to better support themselves and continue to be there for the people they support in our community.

These initiatives are examples of how Imagined Futures partners work together to implement community-led solutions and demonstrate the power of place-based collective impact. More Imagined Futures updates are below.

Leadership Group – chair Michael Piu, St Patrick’s Community Support Centre
Housing and Homelessness – chair Michael Piu, St Patrick’s Community Support Centre
Open Door Community of Practice – chair Sue Nickisson, Communicare
Youth Initiative – chair Annette Boyle, Community Representative
Mental Health – chair Clory Carrello, Cockburn Integrated Health
Davis Park – chair Julie Mitchell SMYL

Fremantle Zero Project Prospectus. One Community. Zero Homelessness.

Imagined Futures and the Western Australian Alliance to End Homelessness (WAAEH) have joined forces with the goal of implementing an evidence and place-based approach to ending rough sleeping in the Fremantle local government area by 2028. Together, we launched a prospectus to raise the funds to bring this important project to life at the Australian Zero Homelessness Summit.

To learn more about this exciting project click here.

Imagined Futures supports frontline workers to tackle burnout!

Imagined Futures Community of Practice hosted two workshops, Exploring Burnout and Activating Self-Care, for frontline workers in our region. This interactive training session focused on understanding stress, compassion fatigue and burnout, including recognising signs and symptoms and exploring prevention strategies such as boundaries and self-care.

To read more click here

Snapshot of supports for at risk young people in our region

To download the Regional Snapshot 2024, click here.

Kambarang Cultural Connections 2024

The Connecting Aboriginal Children in Care project creates invaluable opportunities for children in care to build and maintain relationships with their families, culture, and community. While attending a single event offers benefits, it’s the repeated participation over time that truly deepens these connections and amplifies the positive outcomes. The latest event – Kambarang Connections Day – saw the highest attendance of children and family members/carers yet.

To read more click here.

Where is the door? Community Toolkit

Imagined Futures Where is the door? project has developed a campaign to share key messages which address barriers for people who may be reaching out for support. The Community Toolkit is a step-by-step guide to download tiles and share the key messages of the campaign. You can choose from a range of tiles that can be shared through social media, e-newsletters and other online platforms to encourage people to reach out for support.

To download the toolkit click here

Where is the door? Flyers and posters available to order

We have restocked our flyers and posters aimed at connecting community members to local supports for mental health, family and domestic violence, financial support and more.

Please click here to order

Thank you to our local government partners for funding these valuable resources.

Little Things for Tiny Tots benefitting Davis Park families

Little Things for Tiny Tots supplies essential baby items to WA families in need, using new and pre-loved donations from the community. Imagined Futures has recently signed up to the program.  So far Davis Park families have benefitted from:

• 4 months supply of essentials for young children (nappies, wipes, shoes, clothing, baby bottles, accessories)
• Total value of good donated is $7263.90
• 187kg saved from landfill
• 5 families financial stress alleviated

For more information see website

Communities Inclusion Connection Team

The Department of Communities has recently launched a new service across the Perth Metro area which includes phone and email support to link community members with local services. A face-to-face service available for people with a disability requiring additional support A representative from the Communities Inclusion Connection Team has also joined the Imagined Futures Community of Practice.

For more information about this service click here

Financial Wellbeing Collective Dynamic Data Dashboards and Snapshot 2024

Financial Wellbeing Collective produced a series of dashboards specifically for the Imagined Future that show data on presentations to financial counselling services, Emergency Relief Food & Support services and the Household Utility Grant Scheme for the postcodes across the Imagined Futures region. This is helpful for helping us to target our efforts.  More broadly the Collective have released a 2024 Financial Wellbeing Snapshot that shows the impact of cost of living increases across WA. Services are seeing an increasing number of employed people and people in higher income brackets reaching out for help for the first time.

To view the Financial Wellbeing Snapshot 2024, click here

Workplace Aware Training for our region

Imagined Futures has been brokering workplace aware training sessions for workplaces in our region to develop a strategy for responding to sudden death including suicide. This training responds to psychosocial wellbeing in the workplace as it includes supporting staff who have been exposed to stress and trauma after a sudden death.

For more information please see website.