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Featured Programs

Kororoit Creek Neighbourhood House Homework Club

Delivered in partnership with Albion Primary School, this club supports primary school aged children and their families to develop a love of learning, navigate the education system, provide additional educational support, and enhance their social development. It incorporates a range of interactive learning tools and resources, including storytelling activities, word games and hands-on learning materials.

Kororoit

Study Squad - Learning and Life Centre (Huddle) Ltd – Tarneit

This program provides a safe, welcoming, and youth-led environment where participants can study quietly, access Wi-Fi and refreshments, and connect with trusted adults on their own terms. The program adapts its culturally responsive practices and engagement strategies, particularly around family involvement and staff representation, to better support the needs of local multicultural communities.

Tarneit

The Flemington Homework Club – Jesuit Social Services

This club supports students aged 6-18 from refugee/migrant backgrounds, who predominately live on the Flemington Public Housing Estate. They work with at risk students to overcome barriers to successful learning and educational achievement and to engage positively with social and educational opportunities. With the support of the coordinator, along with regular volunteer tutors, students can access one to one or small group supports and educational resources to enhance their learning. High school students are supported to explore higher education options. Support is also provided from other Jesuit Social Services Programs, such as mental health, family violence and settlement support.

Flemington

Study Buddies - Edmund Rice Services

The study buddies program has supported the development of leadership skills, with older students now often supporting younger students. They have incorporated a weekly yarning circle to promote connection to culture and develop social skills.

Mt Atkinson

Stan Willis Trust Supported Programs

The Trust has supported a wide range of community initiatives over many years. Its current focus is on supporting participation in education, especially among children and young people, including through engagement with their families. This has been through supporting homework clubs, story building workshops and scholarships. In 2015 the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) led the establishment of the Homework Club Partnership Fund (HCPF) through the Australian Communities Foundation (ACF), together with the Stan Willis Trust (SWT) and the Reid Malley Foundation (from 2016). 

Learning Support Programs (Homework Clubs)

Learning Support Programs provide high-quality tuition and learning support to children and young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds. They also assist families to better support their children’s learning at home and in other ways. The programs are focused on both learning and wellbeing outcomes in safe, welcoming and supportive environments. The Centre for Multicultural Youth and their Learning Beyond the Bell Team support Homework Clubs, their coordinators and volunteers.

As well as learning tasks, clubs often also run other activities to engage students. They report that those attending not only gain in their learning skills but also in confidence, problem solving skills and relationships with other participants. The students often display a sense of achievement and an enhanced love of learning.

100 Story Building Footscray – Story Hubs in the Western suburbs

Based in Footscray, 100 Story Building is the home of story making and creative discovery for Victorian children and young people. Innovative approaches to creative writing are used to ignite young imaginations and support children and young people as the heroes of their stories. Opportunities are provided for children and young people 5 – 18 years of age who experience of socio-educational disadvantage or other barriers to education to build literacy skills, confidence and a sense of belonging. Guided by expert facilitators, young writers have been inspired to create comics, poems, rap songs, choose-your-own-adventure stories, podcasts, audio dramas and much more, with a consequent, demonstrated improvement in literacy skills, academic engagement, student agency, and school and community connectedness.

Recent Programs Supported

2026


2025


2024

  • Tarneit Learning Support Program – Edmund Rice Community and Refugee Services
  • Melton/Maidstone Education Program – St Vincent de Paul

2023

  • Melton Reading Club – St Vincent de Paul
  • Study Buddies – Edmund Rice Services Mt Atkinson
  • Tarneit Homework Club – Edmund Rice Services


2022


2021