What We Do
Why We Need a Partnership for Change
Imagine a Queensland where every child and young person is thriving...
Too many young Queenslanders are experiencing adversities and missing out on the supports and opportunities they need to grow up healthy and well. Gaps in prevention and intervention leave families without the right help at the right time.
As part of ARACY’s national health promotion work, TQKP is driving collaboration and evidence-based change to ensure children grow up healthier and better supported.
Other parts of Australia are doing better—with the right partnerships and commitment, Queensland can too.
A partnership approach
Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership connects people and organisations to build systems that deliver the right supports, at the right time, in the right way – improving lifelong health and wellbeing for children and young people.
As part of ARACY’s national health promotion work, TQKP brings people, ideas, and initiatives together to create lasting change to prevent disease.
- We connect – linking governments, services, researchers, and communities to strengthen child wellbeing.
- We catalyse – driving prevention-focused and developmental policies, initiatives and practices.
- We learn – listening to children, young people, families and practitioners to turn evidence into action.
A systems approach to prevention
Together, we:
- Strengthen cross-sector collaboration to improve child health and wellbeing.
- Turn evidence into action by embedding science into policy and practice.
- Invest early and wisely to prevent poor health and developmental outcomes.
- Equip families and workforces with the tools they need to support children.
- Streamline systems to ensure every child gets the best start in life.
We know that...
When we…
- Improve the health, development, safety, and wellbeing of Queensland children and families through prevention and early intervention.
- Disrupt disadvantage, adversity, and insecurity that contribute to poor health outcomes.
- Build capabilities, connections, and resilience to support lifelong health and wellbeing.
We all benefit…
- Children thrive when they receive early health and other support, reducing the risk of preventable diseases and developmental delays.
- Families and communities are better equipped to provide the environments and experiences children need to grow up healthy and well.
- Workers in health, education, and social services are supported to deliver impactful, prevention-focused care.
- Organisations and governments benefit from stronger systems, reduced health burdens, and better long-term outcomes.
- Thriving communities create a healthier, fairer Queensland for everyone.
The need...
Too many Queensland children aren’t yet getting a fair go…
- 1 in 4 children start school developmentally behind.
- Queensland still lags behind the national average on key measures.
- Health and development outcomes vary substantially by postcode, reflecting significant inequities.
The good news? Queensland is improving.
- The latest AEDC (2021) shows Queensland led the nation in improvement.
- More children are starting school on track across all developmental domains.
Together, we can build on this progress and ensure every young Queenslander has the opportunity to thrive.
How We Bring People Together
As part of ARACY’s national health promotion work, TQKP connects, supports, and mobilises partners to drive systemic change that improves child health and wellbeing.
We use a range of tools to strengthen collaboration and impact:
- Co-production – Partnering with people and organisations to design and deliver initiatives.
- Hosted positions – Securing funding for roles embedded in partner organisations.
- Memorandums of Understanding – Establishing clear, shared commitments.
- Communities of Practice – Bringing people together to share, learn, and collaborate.
- Funding agreements – Engaging funders in long-term partnerships.
- Partnership Charter – Aligning organisations under a shared vision.
- Supporting existing initiatives – Building on great work by connecting resources, expertise, and funding.
- Events & communications – Sharing knowledge through webinars, forums, and public engagement.
By fostering partnerships, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing, we help create stronger, prevention-focused systems that support every young Queenslander to thrive.
“A child’s ecosystem is influenced by social, economic, cultural, and environmental factors that impact healthy development and wellbeing. These influences start before birth and have an impact through an individual’s life and across generations … When outcomes are driven by forces that cut across multiple systems, even doing everything perfectly within one system is not enough. Multisector causality requires a multisector response”.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Vibrant and healthy kids: Aligning science, practice, and policy to advance health equity.
We acknowledge that First Nations ways of ‘knowing, being and doing’ have much to teach all of us
WHAT WE DO
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What else we do
Our Approach
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Our Initiatives
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Systems Focus
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Year In Review
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More about our work ...
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.
