Adam DeMamiel taught students with behavioural issues for more than 10 years before he saw an opportunity in 2017: to start Boys to the Bush.
For boys experiencing trauma and facing bleak prospects, Boys to the Bush provides wholistic early intervention support. For these boys, 88 per cent don’t live with an adult male, 85 per cent are living away from home and 57 per cent are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
The support Adam provides to many of these young men can make the difference between life and death. Boys to the Bush leans in to offer mentoring and practical support to boys who have nobody else in their corner. The program has impacted over 8,000 lives through 1:1 MENtoring programs, camps, school programs and community engagement.
Adam has now created a scalable model that is changing the lives of our most vulnerable; the ripple effect enables communities to become far more connected.