Fremantle Foundation is a community-owned philanthropic organisation working in the for-purpose sector. We operate as a registered charity and public ancillary fund bringing together the financial resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective not-for-profit organisations dedicated to improving the lives of people in our community. Stu brings with him a wealth of experience in the not-for-profit sector. He joins the Fremantle Foundation as former Chief Operating Officer at The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health, General Manager of community radio station RTRFM and General Manager of FolkWorld.Stu is an experienced leader with a varied and diverse skillset within the not-for-profit, business and creative realm. Stu has a strong, proven track record of exemplary strategic planning, governance, financial management and leadership. He places particular emphasis on the values of integrity, authenticity, transparency, resilience, equality, accountability, optimism and collaboration. Fremantle has always been Stu’s home and he is incredibly excited to have the opportunity to contribute to its community, history and story.

The Westerman Jilya Institute for Indigenous Mental Health ("The Jilya Institute") exists to provide a world in which our most vulnerable Indigenous children, people, and communities, can have at the very least, an equal opportunity to thrive.The Jilya Institute was created in response to the 13 deaths of Aboriginal children in the Kimberley, the subject of the 2019 Fogliani Coronial Inquiry. These deaths, and the continuing deaths of Aboriginal people by suicide, compelled Dr Westerman to act and do something to support improved access to mental health services that were both clinically and culturally appropriate, and which could provide measurable outcomes for high risk communities. The Jilya Institute is a charitable organisation that is focused on four streams:1. Program Evaluation: This stream aims to ensure that programs are assisted to evaluate their outcomes and ensure that this data is used in a way that clearly informs the content of programs; outcomes of interventions and best practice treatment focus.2. Treatments of best practice: This stream will test treatments of best practice for mental health issues; suicide behaviours, criminogenics, attached related disorders, etc.3. Evidence based intervention programs: This stream will determine evidence-based intervention and prevention programs at a whole of community level and enable improved targeted interventions, funding related to outcomes and trained service providers in high risk communities who can then deliver these programs in an ongoing manner. 4. Psychology Scholarships and student support: The Dr Tracy Westerman Indigenous Psychology Scholarship Program, administered by Jilya, will ensure that the Australian workforce builds its capacity to address the extensive mental health needs in Aboriginal communities.