What we do
Integrating hubs and spokes
Portfolio overview
Our 2030 outcomes
Service and system experiences are high-quality, integrated and equitable so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
What success looks like
An increase in high-quality, equitable and integrated service delivery in Queensland, especially in communities where children, young people and their families disproportionately experience significant adversity and inequity.
We will convene and enable
Convening the Thriving Kids Hubs and Spokes Collaborative to:
create and enact an agreed agenda for the adoption, scaling and embedding of integrated and equitable service arrangements
support innovation and additional investment in the capacity and capability for hubs and spokes initiatives
steward research and development to facilitate integrated and equitable service delivery across Queensland
broker knowledge and support learning and peer-to-peer exchange for existing and new initiatives.
We will amplify the work of others
Better resourcing the connectivity, capability and capacity of high-quality integrated and equitable service delivery. For example, through the National Child and Family Hubs Network.
We will facilitate investment and engagement
Trialing, scaling, embedding and supporting continuous improvement of integrated and equitable service arrangements, including the use of digital tools and platforms.
Supporting capacity and capability building initiatives for existing and new integrated services, including the use of contemporary evidence-based frames, tools and skills.
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.
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.
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.
