Strong Mothers Project

About Strong Mothers

Strong Mothers is a five-year initiative that supports deeply traumatised refugee women during pregnancy and through the first years of their infants’ lives. The program focuses on helping young mothers who have experienced generational, childhood, and present trauma, offering long-term healing and empowerment.

WTTF is proudly partnered with this much needed project, based in Western Sydney that combines intensive therapeutic care with holistic social support.

At the centre of the program is three to five years of weekly individual psychotherapy, designed to heal, strengthen, and support each woman—both as an individual and as a mother. This core therapy is complemented by mothers’ groups focused on parenting, infant care, cooking, shopping, and building everyday life skills.

The program also provides financial assistance, educational opportunities, and access to social resources. Where a partner is present, they are welcomed as an active participant and offered dedicated support to strengthen family relationships.

The Strong Mothers Project is the legacy of Norma Tracey OAM, whose 60-year career has shaped the field of parent-infant mental health. Norma has authored six books, ten booklets, and over twenty-four internationally published papers on mothers, fathers, and children.

The project will be intensively researched by Western Sydney University (WSU), with the aim of developing an evidence-based model of care that creates a lasting circle of security and support—helping mothers build a stable foundation for themselves, their infants, and their futures.