Mission

Our mission is to develop tailored preventative education programs for any audience with the combined aims of educating recipients about depression, increasing the level of awareness and acceptance of mental illness over time as well as encouraging better help seeking strategies while actively promoting the appropriate pathways available to recipients to seek help. 

Vision

"Lets Stamp Out the Stigma"- Depression is not a weakness 

Objectives

1. Education- The Sunrise Foundation will develop and deliver the best available preventative education programs for athletes from all sports across all levels including the elite as well as schools both primary and secondary and rural Australia
2. Awareness- The Sunrise Foundation is committed to continually raising awareness about depression within sport and the community through our education programs. We will also explore ways in which we can actively engage the community to promote better awareness and understanding about depression.
3. Pathways- The Sunrise Foundation will actively promote the appropriate pathways available to seek help.
4. De-Stigmatise- Our education programs aim to improve mental health literacy, raise awareness, increase understanding and the level of acceptance towards depression over time which can assist with de-stigmatising mental illness within the community.