Michael Norman

Support my challenge to care for young Western Australians

Every school day across Western Australia, 250,000 students walk into a school where someone knows their name. In 2025, YouthCARE chaplains and volunteers showed up in 600 school communities and 38 sporting clubs across the state, from the Kimberley to the Great Southern.

They sat with students navigating hard things, served nearly 700,000 meals through Breakfast Club, delivered 30,760 wellbeing sessions, and supported more than 10,000 athletes and their families on the sidelines.

260,000 people. One consistent presence. Ridiculously good care.

Your support helps provide ridiculously good care to young Western Australians.

260km in May - here's why I'm doing it

This May, I'm running 260km to represent the 250,000 students and 10,000 athletes in sporting clubs that YouthCARE and SportsCARE support across WA and aiming to raise $2600.

That's a lot of kilometres. But honestly, it feels like the least I can do.

Working at YouthCARE, I see up close what our chaplains and volunteers do every day. They show up, quietly and consistently, for people who are carrying a lot. Anxiety, loneliness, pressure, uncertainty. Most of the time you'd never know, because kids and athletes are pretty good at just keeping going.

But having someone there who notices, who listens, who doesn't disappear when things get hard? That changes things. It gives people a sense that they're not on their own. That they matter.

That's what YouthCARE calls ridiculously good care. And it's why I want to help more young people access it.

So I'll be logging the kms and seeing this through, even on the days I really don't feel like it.

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