Thriving Kids in Disasters (TKiD) contributes a Queensland based analysis of strengths and opportunities for improvement of current and future capabilities of DM systems as they relate to Queensland kids. By bringing together current research with stakeholder insights, TKiD offers a number of principles and systems-level recommendations to better support kids’ resilience and wellbeing through disaster PPRR in Queensland.
TKiD draws on findings from growing science and burgeoning evidence about the general incidence and impacts of adverse childhood experiences, entrenched disadvantage and impacts of trauma on health, development, learning, behaviour and relationships across the life-course and as a result of disaster experiences. Additional insights are gleaned from current evidence and best practice concerning child development, resilience and wellbeing, with consideration given to how this relates to disaster resilience and what this means for the resourcing and governance of systems supporting kids.
In particular, TKiD draws on:
- A systems lens of levers and threads
- Australia’s child and youth wellbeing framework, ARACY’s The Nest
- Recent evidence in relation to operationalising resilience and wellbeing frames and tools from the University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research
- TQKP’s collaborations with the Harvard Center on the Developing Child and Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
- Kids in disasters related work occurring at a national level under the stewardship of Emerging Minds
TKiD aims to provide:
(i) clarity around the strengths and opportunities
for improvement within current Queensland disaster management arrangements to better support the resilience and wellbeing of infants, children and young people; and
(ii) direction to organisers, funders and policy makers via a series of evidence-informed recommendations that will better gear our disaster management systems to create positive impact for kids and families now and into the future.
