On Monday the 2nd of November, four budding performing and creative arts students from Roebourne District High school left Roebourne to embark on a 6 day adventure exploring the arts in Sydney. The long distance travel (and the rain!) was exhausting but an incredible week of amazing experiences was had...
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Risk & Protective Factors in Youth Violence
Risk Factors for the Perpetration of Youth Violence Research on youth violence has increased our understanding of factors that make some populations more vulnerable to victimization and perpetration. Risk factors increase the likelihood that a young person will become violent. However, risk factors are not direct causes of youth violence;...
James Rigg: Ride for Unity Diary
The Ride by James Rigg We were planning on riding the some 578km in 6 days, or so I was lead to believe. I was thinking this was a manageable effort when invited to join, worked out at a little under 100km each day. Little did I know that this...
Ride For Unity 2015
Our inaugural Ride For Unity launched on the 24thof August this year with a team of 15 enthusiastic cyclists and a dedicated support crew heading out from the town of Port Hedland in W.A’s far north west with nearly 600kms in their sights. The IF Foundation’s Ride For Unity aimed...
Ride for Unity – Stop the Violence
Check out our latest video on Stopping the Violence and our approach to tackling this devastating community issue.
Inmate jailed over fatal punch
Amanda Banks, Legal Affairs Editor. THE WEST AUSTRALIAN A teenager committed a “cowardly” and fatal one-punch attack on a fellow prisoner in a WA jail after a minor spat over who could sit where in the dining room, a Perth could was told today. Robert Thomas Garlett was sentenced to...
Alcohol-related injuries in young women skyrocket
Nicky Phillips Science Editor, Sydney Morning Herald The number of women presenting at emergency departments with alcohol-related injuries is increasing at an alarming rate, a new national study has found. Between 2005 and 2012 the number of women who arrived at hospital with these kind of injuries increased by 44...
IF! A Public Health based approach to tackling violence
IF Foundation is tackling violence prevention using an evidence‐based public health approach that targets the root causes and risk factors underlying the likelihood of an individual becoming involved in violence, and that recognizes the need for improved services to mitigate the harmful effects of violence when it does occur. The...
Pilbara Performing Arts Academy – The BFG
On June 25th at 7:00pm, the IF Foundation Wickham after School Performing Arts Academy will make its stage debut with a performance of “The BFG” by Roald Dahl adapted for the stage by David Wood. This production will be presented by arrangement with OriginTM Theatrical, on behalf of Samuel French,...
Preventing Violence – Life Skills Development
Developing life skills can help young people to avoid violence, by improving their social & emotional competence, teaching them how to deal effectively & non violently with conflict & helping to find them employment. The WHO briefing for preventing violence by developing life skills in children & adolescents (2009), defines...