About Us
How we work
PARTNER WITH SCHOOLS:
Create football Academies to attract and keep participants at school.
STAFF ACADEMIES APPROPRIATELY:
Staff with full time, suitably trained ex AFL/ NRL footballers and educators. Capture the participants’ attention and gain their respect and trust.
DEVELOP POSITIVE ATTITUDES:
Develop self esteem and positive attitudes towards health, education and employment. Expose participants to a wide range of life experiences which challenge and develop. Reward achievements with trips and exposure to new challenges.
ASSIST WITH EMPLOYMENT AND PROVIDE ON-GOING SUPPORT:
Find employment for graduates and support them in making the transition from school to the work place. Act like family and stay in their lives.
CLONTARF IS A SOPHISTICATED BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE PROGRAM NOT A SPORTING PROGRAM.
About us
The Clontarf Foundation is a charitable not-for-profit organisation registered as an Unlisted Public Company Limited by Guarantee which complies with the relevant Federal Government Acts in Australia.
The Foundation believes that failure to experience achievement when young, coupled with a position of under-privilege can lead to alienation, anger and then to more serious consequences.
As a prelude to tackling these and other issues, participants are first provided with an opportunity to succeed and hence to raise their self esteem. The vehicle for achieving this outcome is football.
Our programs are delivered through a network of Academies, each of which operates in partnership with, but independent of, a school or college. Football is used to attract teenaged Aboriginal men to school and then keep them there. In order to remain in the program, participants must continue to work at school and embrace the objectives of the Foundation.
Funding for our programs is received in equal parts from the Federal government, State or Territory governments and the private sector.
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