Lives full of choice & opportunity

Our vision

MITS exists to create pathways to greater opportunity for Indigenous students from remote and regional communities, so that they may lead lives full of choice and opportunity.

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MITS Opens

MITS opens to its first 22 students from remote Top End and regional Victoria, with students attending school in MITS's classrooms at the Richmond Football Club and boarding on Richmond Hill. MITS forms partnerships with a founding group of eight Melbourne Partner Schools.

Pathways Program Commences

MITS's first cohort - our Class of 2016 - transition to Year 8 across eight Melbourne Partner Schools. Our Pathways Program is established to provide support, advocacy and advice to these alumni students, their families, their schools and their host families.

Wellington Street House Opens

MITS opens a small home in Wellington Street Kew to accommodate six alumni girls attending Year 8 at two MITS Partner Schools. This small home demonstrates the strength of alumni boarding. In response, MITS secures Australian Government funding to open a new Alumni Boarding House for Girls on Richmond Hill.

Senior Boarding House at 139 Richmond Terrace opens, MITS temporarily relocates to Darwin

MITS's new Senior Boarding House for Girls opens just 80 metres from MITS's Year 7 Boarding House, providing a continuing place of belonging and cultural connection for MITS students on Richmond Hill. MITS also relocates the majority of our school and boarding operations to Darwin in response to COVID-19.

MITS opens Senior Boarding House at 364 Church Street

In 2022 MITS opened its second Senior Boarding House on Richmond Hill, at 364 Church Street. This Boarding House provides another 20 beds to enable MITS alum to be part of a connected community on Richmond Hill while pursuing education in Melbourne. By mid-2022, 63 young people are living together on Richmond Hill with MITS.

MITS expands to Year 8 school program, opens Senior Boarding House at 371 Church Street

In 2023, MITS expanded our school to Year 8, meaning we now provide a two-year (Years 7 and 8) transition school and boarding program. We also opened another Senior Boarding House at 371 Church Street, completing a connected community of up to 100 young people pursuing education in Melbourne while living together across our four boarding houses on Richmond Hill.