Sir David Martin Foundation - Helping young people in crisis

Our vision is to create an environment where young people can grow up in safety, with hope and opportunity.

Our mission is to provide the resources to ensure disadvantaged youth achieve their full potential.

Each night across Australia thousands of teenagers and young adults bed down in youth refuges, inner city squats and various public places in our big cities.

For many of these kids, homelessness begins the descent into alcohol and drug abuse, violence, involvement in serious crime and other behaviours damaging to their physical and mental health.

Our goal at the Sir David Martin Foundation is to get more young people off the streets, away from unhealthy situations and into care and rehabilitation. We aim to encourage in them a new sense of self belief so that they can face the community at large without the need for drugs, crime and homelessness.