What we do
Building brains and bodies
Portfolio overview
Our 2030 outcomes
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.
What success looks like
An increase in leaders, practitioners, caregivers and organisations that are engaging in building thriving childhoods.
An increase in strategies, policies, programs, investments and practices that are explicit about developing the capabilities and relationships children, young people, families and communities need to be connected, resilient and thriving.
We will convene and enable
Convening the Thriving Kids Brains and Bodies Collaborative to
translate insights from science, evidence and experience about the social, economic, environmental and systems conditions and relationships that build or harm healthy brains and bodies
advance initiatives that enable children, young people, families and communities to have enough resources for life’s necessities, and that address the factors and conditions that shape child and youth development, wellbeing and resilience.
We will amplify the work of others
Supporting the next stage of the Thriving Kids Brain Builders Initiative to build and deepen neuro-informed capabilities and connections across caregivers, communities, organisations and workforces.
Providing curated learning and development through Childhood Builders Capability Initiatives to strengthen core, common and contemporary knowledge, skills and tools across Queensland workforces and organisations.
Supporting collaborative initiatives that provide the building blocks for healthy brains and bodies by supporting play, early language and literacy development, good sleep and nutrition
Supporting First Nations Growing Deadly Brains and other wellbeing and healing initiatives, led by First Nations community organisations and enterprises, so they can:
engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, young people, families and communities
support capability and wellbeing in First Nations organisations, workforces and communities.
We will facilitate investment and engagement
Generating and translating knowledge and enabling systems change that is informed by science, evidence and experience.
Growing collaborative networks and capacities for research, development and translation.
WHAT WE DO
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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.
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.
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.
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.
