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Enabling Workforces Toolkit
Want to be better equipped with the knowledge and skills that enable children and young people to thrive?
Children thrive in environments and relationships where the adults around them understand how the brains and bodies of babies, children and young people develop. Understanding our brains and resilience through the application of neuroscience in practice can support workers, families and children to thrive.
The good news is that, in Australia, we already have many engaging, high quality resources to support those of us who work with children, young people and families.
Our aim is to ensure that every worker, in every community, can easily access these resources.
That’s why we’ve compiled this simple Toolkit with 100+ learning opportunities.
To make the Toolkit as useful as possible, we’ve sorted the resources according to:
Length of video/module or training (starting with just a few minutes!)
Intended impact:
- Heart: includes short, emotive, core message dissemination, common language/knowledge
- Head: includes understanding the ‘why’, actionable insights, opportunity for reflection into practice
- Hand: includes deeper understanding of the ‘how’, and ongoing supports
Topics. Under each section you’ll find the following 5 columns (which we refer to as Capability Strands)
Brain Development & Brain Health
Protective & Adverse Childhood Experiences
Trauma & Healing
Resilience
The Whole Person
This Toolkit has been created in partnership through our Enabling Workforces and Organisations for Thriving Kids (EWOT) project. Thanks to our many partners and contributors.
Please note, this Toolkit is being built, tested and improved as we go! We welcome enquiries, feedback, tips and suggestions via our Contact Us page.
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HEART: includes short, emotive, core message dissemination, common language/knowledge
Less than 20 minutes
HEAD: Understanding the ‘why’, actionable insights, opportunity for reflection into practice
20 minutes - 1 hour
1 – 3 hours
3 - 7 hours
7+ hours
HAND: Deeper understanding of the ‘how’, support for application, ongoing supports
Resources and Communities of Practice
Related links & evidence
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Enabling Workforces Toolkit (PDF)
A PDF of the Enabling Workforces Toolkit is also available here for download.
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Implementation Guide - for Child and Youth Workforces: Embedding neuro-informed evidence into practice.
Helpful if you are looking to: Explore the different ways that the neuro-informed capability strands can be used in a range of contexts, including in education, youth justice, child safety and in tertiary institutions. There are case studies from each of the trial and test locations and an implementation science-based guide to developing in your own context.
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Shared Stories of Brain Building Across Workforces
Shared Stories of Brain Building Across Workforces in Queensland provides real-life examples of how Queensland professionals in a range of sectors are applying the latest neuroscience and brain health knowledge to create the optimal conditions for children’s mental, physical, social, emotional and cognitive development from the early years onwards.
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Brain Building Workforces: The Neuro-informed Policy and Practice Framework & Evidence Brief
This work from the Queensland Brain Institute and Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership emerged from a need to establish a clear conceptualisation and identify key knowledge bases that underpin a neuro-informed approach.
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Brain Builder Workforces Evidence Brief: Neuro-informed Policy and Practice Scoping Review
This scoping review aims to:
- Establish a working definition of neuro-informed policy and practice that can be applied to different systems, workforces, and contexts.
- Identify the key knowledge bases and applications of neuro-informed policy and practice, with a particular focus on those relevant to children and young people.
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Brain Builder Workforces: Neuro-informed Policy and Practice Framework
This Framework has been developed as a tool to support systems and services to establish a shared language, shared knowledge, and shared purpose. It was developed through an extensive scoping review of publications describing the application of neuro-informed policy and practice, internationally.
