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About Us
Our history
Our story starts way back, where 2 decades ago our devotion to education was channeled into impacting the lives of others
When a lack of academic expectations are compounded by neglect, apathy and a lack of appropriate investment, the status quo of mediocre academic performance and its outcomes cannot be challenged, let alone changed. Of the many factors that affect an individual’s life trajectory, education is the most fundamental and profound.
This philosophy forms the scaffold for which Social Alchemy Australia has built upon since its inception over 20 years ago. Since then, founder Chin-Liang Beh and his team have constructed a specialist academic program focused on supporting individuals who have faced considerable adversity in personal, social and educational domains.
Our comprehensive support has specifically included individuals residing in youth crisis accommodation refuges. With encouragement, support and resources provided though a unique and holistic program, students are enabled to achieve their academic and personal potentials. Social Alchemy Australia works with our students to achieve just this – an academic and personal development program which teaches responsibility and fosters commitment, complementing above-average expectations and aspirations of both tutors and students to create a system providing any student with the opportunity to achieve personally and academically.
Social Alchemy is a not-for-profit organisation. We promote academic excellence and establish crucial support networks for individuals who would otherwise not have access to such resources.
Meet our founder
Complementary to his professional careers as an ecologist, conservation research scientist, and Bioscience academic in the field of Nursing and Midwifery; Chin-Liang possesses a long standing interest in supporting children and young people that suffer the challenges of disadvantaged backgrounds.
Over the last 20 years, CL has consistently demonstrated high-end academic achievements and outcomes with schoolchildren within the private sector (www.powdermonkey.com.au) and of disadvantaged backgrounds. He strongly supports the principle that individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds possess equal academic potential and any individual’s personal development, academic progress and excellence can be facilitated with specialist support within the right environment.
CL believes that personal development, education and performance through fulfilling academic potential are fundamental to breaking though entrenched social cycles. Education is absolutely crucial to directly change the personal outcomes of any individual and therefore the communities that we live in.