Donate to give 
kids' health
the green light

SCHF Virtual Giving Event

Thank you for pledging your support to give the green light to three research-led innovation projects that will give kids across Australia the best chance to live their healthiest lives. You can use the form on the right-hand side to make your tax-deductible donation

Project #1: Bringing the joy back to mealtimes for kids who are tube fed with the SUCCEED model of home-based health care.

When it's four o'clock in the morning, feeding clinics are closed, your GP isn’t available and you have a tube-fed child who is in distress, your only option is to go to Emergency. That’s where SUCCEED is changing things! Led by Dr Chris Elliot, this dedicated team of parents, medical specialists and researchers wants to create a world where children with feeding difficulties can thrive.

Project #2: Give Voice! How speech pathologists are giving vulnerable children better life chances.  

It’s difficult to focus on your child’s health if you’re struggling just to survive, so Lauren Hamill has designed a new screening tool to help families at Aboriginal Health Clinics in South east Sydney access vital early intervention care. Twenty per cent of Australian four-year-olds have communication impairments, but in disadvantaged communities this can increase to 50%.Lauren is determined to make sure they don’t miss out on vital care.  

Project #3: Taking the Westmead Feelings Program online to reach out to autistic kids in rural and regional Australia and beyond.

Led by Dr Michelle Wong, the award-winning Westmead Feelings Program is the world’s first evidence-based mental health program designed for autistic children with cognitive disability. At present it can only be delivered by trained facilitators in a clinical setting. The solution? Digitisation of the existing program to offer new training modules for parents to use at home with their children, translated into multiple languages.

Frequently asked questions

How does my donation help?

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Providing care, treatment and world-class innovations for sick kids is challenging, complex and expensive.

Your donation to the SCHF Virtual Giving Event will go to the frontline to ensure every moment is the best it can be for sick kids; by funding cutting-edge research, world-class clinical care and patient experience programs.

Your generous donation today could make a difference to a sick child that could last a lifetime.

Is my donation tax-deductible?

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Yes! All donations over $2 are tax-deductible.

A big thank you to our Supporters

The real heroes who are kindly helping us achieve our goal

Melissa Parkin

Please give $500 to Project 1 (SuCCEED) and $500 to Project 2 (Give Voice!) as pledged on the night. Such fantastic initiatives and I feel honoured to have had a small hand in both of them.

$1,000

Stella Li

Donation is for Project 3

$100

Rob Irving

$313

Wayne Mo

Please allocate across all three projects

$600

Mee-mee Lee

Donation for Taking the Westmead Feelings Program

$600

Anonymous

$515

Julie Mcdonald

My registered email was julie.mcdonald@thefundingnetwork.com.au in case you can't find me

$500

Daniela Ierardo

Autism & Mental Health

$104

Daniela Ierardo

SUCEED

$157

Nicola Stokes

$1.52k

Angela Hinchley

$565

Laura Doig

Lauren’s project

$313

Timothy Monckton

$1.82k

Geoffrey Wong

For Dr. Michelle Wong - Autism and Mental Health

$250

Marina Power

SUCCEED

$50

Janelle Varlow

Please add this donation to the Give Voice project. Thanks you

$313

Heather And Bill Webster

$5000 Succeed $2500 Give Voice

$7.5k

Elizabeth Dichiara

I would like my donation to support SUCCEED

$104

Renee Jasser

SUCCEED

$100

Tim Whybourne

$1.02k

Tony Ierardo

$209

Irene Tadic

$515

Belinda De Lemos

Succeed !!!!! What a Wonderful cause

$100

Ian Haigh

$209

Emily Carr

Project #3

$313

Maree Whybourne

$765

Grace Ciaschetti

$1.52k

Vinita Bansal

$100

Kristen Lark

$104

Amanda Craze

Give voice!

$157

Christina Butler

$100

Anonymous

$60 - SUCCEED

$60

Dominic Monckton

$465

Karen Height

The Feelings Program Dr Michelle Wong

$100

Yvonne Stewart

Please allocate as follows: SUCCEED $300 on behalf of Stewart siblings Autism & Mental Health $200 on behalf of Stewart siblings GIVE VOICE $200 on behalf of David Tester GIVE VOICE $300 on behalf of Beryl Jackson

$1.02k

Meredith Paynter

Please allocate my donation to Project 3 - Autism and Feelings Program

$515

Rose Whelan

Tube feeding

$30

Thomas Ragg

Project #3 - Autism & Mental Health

$313

Linsey Houston

Give Voice

$261

Linsey Houston

Succeed

$261

David Dossetor

For project #3: Autism and Mental Health

$300

Gerry & Barbara Woolf

$200

Anthony Ierardo

$500

Lai Fun Lee

For Dr Michelle Wong and team - Feelings Program for Autism

$104

David Dossetor

For project #3: Autism and Mental Health

$1,000

Caroline Ongleo-calub

$200

Nadia Keogh

$1.5k

Les White

$313

Tanya Sarina

Please note this is for the pledge made by Tanya Sarina

$313

Katrina Topfer

Give Voice

$100

Colin Allen

$415

Kathy Civardi

Project 3 - Westmead Feelings Program

$209

Helen Menegakis

$52