Advancing Equity Summit (17 – 18 Oct)
The inaugural Advancing Equity Summit, hosted by The Equity CoLab and Country to Coast QLD, is a call to action to address the social norms, systems, and structures that underpin inequity in our communities. Join Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership’s Roger Meany and Rowena Cann for their presentation “Leveraging Partnerships for Systemic Change: Lessons from Thriving Queensland […]
Connecting Capricorn
Connecting Capricorn is an annual event for organisations and services that support children. This year the event promoted framing research. Speakers included: FREE Entry For enquiries contact CFCCapricorn@thesmithfamily.com.au
Bringing the elements together: launching the Child and Family Hubs Framework
Webinar: Tuesday 3rd December 2024 Hubs are an important way of building connections and capabilities and providing integrated services for children, young people and families. They operate in a wide range of settings, and aim to build individual and collective wellbeing through seamless access to holistic, high-quality support. They can also help fill the gaps […]
Juiced TV ‘Healthy Minds’ video
Check out this Healthy Minds episode from our incredible friends at Juiced TV and their amazing crew of young Queenslanders and colleagues at the Queensland Children’s Hospital – created for Queensland Mental Health Week. We love that the video uses some of our favourite metaphors and frames like ‘building brains’, ‘what surrounds us shapes us’ […]
New TQKP Management Board Chair: Jane Yacopetti
We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Jane Yacopetti as independent Chair of the Management Board of the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP), and her commencement in the role this month. After a recruitment process facilitated by Directors Australia, Jane has been appointed to a three-year term. Jane is a highly experienced senior executive […]
Thriving Kids in Disasters: Words into Practice (Webinar 1)
This is the first of three webinars in the series Thriving Kids in Disasters: Words into Practice webinars, held from September – November 2024. This session focused on supporting children’s and young people’s concerns, capabilities and actions relating to climate change and disasters. The webinar was hosted by Anita Egginton from the Thriving Queensland Kids […]
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. Co-created by the Thriving PLACES, Thriving KIDS Collaborative (an initiative of Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership) Download the report here.
Thriving Kids in Disaster Report
This is the first comprehensive review of how children are included in disaster management in Queensland. It shows that children’s wellbeing has often been overlooked by adults in how to prevent, prepare, respond and recover from disasters. The report offers important (often relatively simple) recommendations for how we can do better. Download the FULL report. Download the SUMMARY report.