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Katina Woodruff Children`s Foundation

The Katina Woodruff Children's Foundation is a non-profit organisation providing support to refugee and migrant children for their holistic wellbeing. It serves children who have recently arrived within Australia in the following aspects of their transition. The Foundation assists them in:

Overcoming past trauma and current suffering;
Adjusting to cultural and linguistic relocation; and
Equipping for full participation in Australian life and society.

The Katina Woodruff Children's Foundation is driven by a PASSION, directed toward a PURPOSE, and guided by the EMPOWERMENT of personal experience and expertise.

Passion

Katina Woodruff-Roberts, the founder of The Katina Woodruff Children’s Foundation, brings a personal passion to accomplish the goals of serving children in traumatic transition. The driving force of her lifetime energies is her fervent love for children and her insistence on excellence, both personally and in serving others.

Purpose

The Katina Woodruff Children’s Foundation exists to facilitate the unique challenges of child immigration, a traumatic transition affecting many children in Australia. The cultural and linguistic dislocation of refugee and migrant children calls for compassionate, highly trained transitional assistance. Through personal experience and extensive in-depth research in cultural anthoropology at the University of Queensland, Katina has researched "Pretend Play," a concept within the new field of the "Anthropology Play," and has tranformed this methodology to facilitate children facing unique transitions. Katina’s original research and ethnographies within the new field of the “Anthropology of Play,” form the basis for her methodology targeting:

Migrant and refugee children recently arrived in Australia by assisting children and their families in the child’s cultural, linguistic, and ethos adjustments;
Relating to children living in dual cultures, the original culture maintained in the home and the culture of Australia, the new host country;
Monitoring and facilitating their transition into their community and classroom, first in the ESL (English as a Second Language) school system and subsequently in standard schooling; and
Introduction and bridging to the wider community, which empowers them to continue their successful transition following the completion of this program.

Western Australian Donation Fund

A donation fund to support the Katina Woodruff Children’s Foundations activities within Western Australia has been established under the trusteeship of Western Australian Community Foundation. To support the Foundation's work locally, please click here to make a contribution.

Contact

For further information, please contact Katina Woodruff, Director and Child Anthropologist or Western Australian Community Foundation on (08) 9224 6000.

Serving Young Children in Transition During Immigration