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Implementation Guide – Enabling Workforces & Organisations for Thriving Kids

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Enabling Workforces and Organisations for Thriving Kids is an initiative of Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP) in collaboration with Emerging Minds, Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation, the Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland and Dovetail – as part of Insight, supported by the Queensland Mental Health Commission (QMHC). Purpose of the Enabling Workforces and Organisations […]

Resilience Scale Resource

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Resilience Scale Resource This Child Protection Week (7–13 September 2025), let’s keep building a shared language around what children need. Children thrive when communities come together to: – Add positive supports (‘green boxes’) – Reduce adversity (‘red boxes’) – Build skills and abilities That’s the core message behind the Resilience Scale resource – a partnership […]

Growing Deadly Brains project

Yiliyapinya Indigenous Corporation and Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership are leading a three-year project, bringing together Brain Health and cultural approaches, to support efforts to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and families to thrive. The Growing Deadly Brains project is a collaborative, First Nations-led, family and community- building and systems-shifting initiative. It aims to […]

Shared Stories of Brain Building in Queensland

Shared Stories of Brain Building in Queensland

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. These stories exemplify the growing application […]

‘We are brain builders’ flyer

_FINAL Metaphors brochure for TAE Conference

This 2-page A4 flyer, highlights the 6 core metaphors developed as part of The Brain Story, reproduced with permission from our partners at the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative. The flyer has been created to support our aims to equip as many people as possible with proven tools to embed neuroscience in our communities to support […]

The Experience of Trauma by Queensland children

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Prepared as a consultation paper to contribute the development of the Queensland Trauma Strategy. Prepared by: Sophie Morson, Michael Hogan, Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership What is this research about? This paper outlines key insights from well-established and emerging evidence and expertise about trauma in childhood (5-12 years). This includes its incidence and impact, and implications […]

‘What is Child Wellbeing?’ explainer video

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Wellbeing is a commonly used term, but it can mean different things to different people. This variability in interpretation can make it challenging to fully understand what wellbeing entails and, ultimately, to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people. To address this, ARACY has partnered with Emerging Minds to create a dynamic […]

Webinar – Operationalising Resilience: Taking Evidence Into Practice

Title slide for presentation: Operationalising Resilience: Taking evidence into practice Institute for Social Science Research, UQ Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership Wednesday 8 May 2024

The Operationalising Resilience: Taking Evidence Into Practice webinar was held on Wednesday 8 May 2024 as a partnership between Institute for Social Science Research, UQ and Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership. In response to the research question ‘How has resilience science been applied as part of a bio-psycho-socioecological framework in the context of improving child, youth, […]