Menu

Year in Review 2024-2025

Four smiling children lying on grass, with "Year in Review 2024-2025" text and a colorful logo above them.

Read more about the period 1 July 2024 – 30 June 2025: the final stage of Phase 2 and a period of significant, measured progress for Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP). The work to date across our focus initiatives has laid foundations upon which we successfully delivered every activity critical to activate the partnership, leading […]

Brain Building in Queensland, Years 2 & 3 in Review, 2024 – 2025

Cover of Brain Building in Queensland Years in Review 2024 / 2025 with a picture of three girls smiling

When our caregivers and communities – and our schools, health and other services – are informed by neuroscience we can build healthier brains and bodies and improve learning, wellbeing and resilience.  The Thriving Kids Brain Builders Initiative (TKBBI) is directly supporting child development in Queensland by applying neuroscience to improve practice and connection across the systems that support children, young people and their families. […]

Thriving Country Kids: Social Network Analysis (SNA) & systemic advocacy in rural, regional & remote Queensland

Cover of SNAP Toolkit with picture of child climbing on a rural fence

The Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership Country Collaborative undertook the Social Network Analysis Project (SNAP) to better understand the collaborations that underpin grassroots and strategic systems change efforts contributing to child wellbeing and development in rural, regional and remote Queensland. The group identified that a disconnect is often experienced between metropolitan and country communities and that […]

2025-2030 Impact Strategy

On 18 June Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership launched an ambitious vision to transform outcomes for all children and young people in Queensland within one generation. Our five year strategy shares how we will work over the five years from 2025–2030 to ensure we are on track to achieve this. TQKP’s new five-year strategy focuses on […]

TKiD Community Engagements Report

Let’s listen to children in disasters When we listen to local people – especially families and children themselves – we can develop better policies and solutions to ensure that every child in every community has what they need in disasters. Our new Thriving Kids in Disasters Community Engagements Report shares insights drawn from engagements with […]

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 […]

Young & Wise Report

Yellow cover of Young and Wise report featuring image of teen girl

Young and Wise brings together insights from consultations with children and young people across Australia over the past five years. It includes conversations, videos, artworks, and more. While not exhaustive, it’s the largest summary of its kind, capturing key themes from broad wellbeing consultations alongside reports focused on specific groups and issues. Covering birth to […]

Place-Based Data Framework

Place based leaders and data experts have created a framework that is not only focused on data access, but guides practitioners in the ‘how to’ of accessing, collecting and using data for the purpose of shared measurement and shared decision-making. This document represents the development of the Framework as at end of 2024.

Queensland Place-Based Network

Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership has been co-developing a Queensland place-based network, aimed at ensuring that kids and places in Queensland have what they need to thrive. In 2025, we will be working with partners across places, government and philanthropy to implement the model in Queensland. The aim is to develop a network model that: This […]