Welcome to our website. For those who are new to visiting the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP), please note that TQKP is not part of the proposed Thriving Kids program that was recently announced. If your enquiry is about the proposed Thriving Kids program, you can find out more here or contact the Commonwealth Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
A fairer, healthier Queensland for every child in every community
Together, we’re working to support every child, in every community, according to their needs
To implement our strategy we have six portfolios of work that weave together to change systems for kids in Queensland.
Engaging hearts and mindsets
Positive shifts in how Queensland’s public, decision-makers, practitioners, parents and other caregivers – think, feel, speak and act about what is needed for children, young people, their families and communities to thrive.
Enabling stewards and voices
Leaders and change makers work together to steward systems change; heed the lived experience of children, young people, their families and communities; and become more accountable to them.
Growing investments and impacts
The scale, flow, equity and impact of public, philanthropic and corporate resources is expanded so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive, with a focus on fairness according to need.
Building brains and bodies
Families, caregivers, workforces and communities are applying science-based knowledge, skills and tools for building healthy brains and bodies so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Strengthening places and spaces
Queensland places are more child friendly, with the right supports and services, and the social, economic, physical and digital environments so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Integrating hubs and spokes
Service and system experiences are high-quality, integrated and equitable so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Resource library
Better knowledge, and support to put it into practice, leads to better health and wellbeing for children and young people.
Explore research, case studies, and tools about child and adolescent development, health and wellbeing to build your confidence and create real change.
Upcoming events
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What surrounds us, shapes us
What happens to us in childhood shapes lifelong health and wellbeing.
We’re working to make sure every young Queenslander grows up healthy, supported, resilient and ready to thrive.
Explainer video: "What surrounds us shapes us"
This short explainer video introduces the Resilience Scale and ARACY’s The Nest framework as models to help understand how experiences and environments shape children’s health and development.
Partnerships charter
Our Charter clearly sets out the partnership’s shared goals, values and ways of working to improve systems for Queensland’s children. We invite you to review the Charter and join us if you support our shared vision for Queensland kids.
Report: Queensland Place-Based Rivermap
The Queensland Place-Based Rivermap proposes systemic actions to support our many place-based initiatives. Let’s work together to create local conditions that are good for families and kids.
We all contribute differently to Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership and are all equally benefiting from it.
Funding partners
This partnership will bridge the gap between research and practical application, ensuring all children have access to the support they need to develop and flourish.
Professor Karen Thorpe
Laureate Fellow - Queensland Brain Institute
TQKP brings together everyone with an important role to play in improving things for kids in Queensland. It’s a whole of society endeavour and it’s important. The Bryan Foundation is delighted to be working with other leading philanthropic organisations to help make it happen.
Matthew Cox
Executive Director - The Bryan Foundation
Too many young Queenslanders are behind before they even start their adult life, and they are facing more challenges than ever before. That’s why we need to build the systems and structures that will best help young people in need to thrive in adult life. Through TQKP the leaders of our communities, as well as policy makers and funders, can come together to understand what works and what matters for young Queenslanders. TQKP will steer this conversation here in Queensland so that we can give young people the best chance for success in their adult lives. Hand Heart Pocket is proud be part of this collaborative approach.
Sara Parrott
CEO - Hand Heart Pocket
It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to work in such a beautifully considered and developed structure, where leadership is provided in the most important ways. The TKiD Leadership Alliance has been invaluable. TKiD coordinates our efforts so that we can all contribute collectively to something that has the ability to take us to the next level. TKiD means our ideas can find a bigger system, a place to sit, a place to stay and a place to grow.
Helen Travers
TKiD Leadership Alliance member, Helen Travers, Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI), FNQ
…it has really shaped the way I start doing things now, in terms of my research but then also my teaching (…). It is also just for my own personal brain awareness and self-awareness – who am I as a person, as a wife, and a mother.
Partner on learning about the brain story
The students have really enjoyed it, are taking it on board, and it has generated some really great discussion.
Partner feedback about students’ engagement with the neuroscience material
This is not new science… The challenge is to implement it. So it affects parents, it affects children, it affects teachers, people looking after children. It affects all of us and we’ve got to integrate and bring all that together so that children have the best start in life.
Norman Swan, Physician, ABC Radio Presenter, & ARACY Board Member - about neuroscience
This is not new science… The challenge is to implement it. So it affects parents, it affects children, it affects teachers, people looking after children. It affects all of us and we’ve got to integrate and bring all that together so that children have the best start in life.
