building community capacity for children and families
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Building Community Capacity for Children and
Families:
The Queensland Platforms Project (QPP)
QLD EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE CONFERENCE
Saturday, 25th June, 2016
Starting out…
Interactive introductions
Turn to person next to you…
- spend 3 mins each (total 6) introducing yourself and then listening to the other person.
- Try not to talk at all about your work role!
Starting out…
Reflect on intro
What types of things did you learn?
Why did we start this way?
Summary reflection…
QPP communities What we learnt from starting in this way…• Laidley/Hatton Vale: Nicci Martin, Laidley District State School
• Gympie: Barb Yule, a community volunteer
• Gold Coast – Sheryle Croft, SE Region Department of Education and Training
Workshop overview
QPP Learnings
Achievements
RecommendationsChallenges
Enablers
Workshop overview
A topic/question is raised
We act on/reflect together
A QPP summary point is offered
What is the QPP?
Start
Get started
Build
Build a
comprehensive
early childhood
community
partnershipLearn
Learn about the
community
Plan
Plan for change
using an outcomes-
based approach
Implement
Support
implementation of
the plan
Review
Review and reflect
on the work of the
partnership
Step 1: Raise awareness
Step 7: Collect information
Step 8: Make sense of the information
Step 13: Identify your continuous improvement plan
Step 14: Implement, monitor and adapt
Step 15: Evaluate the change for children, families and the community
Step 16: Reflect on the change in service delivery, culture and practice
Step 17: Consider next steps
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Part
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Step 2: Harness support
Step 3: Establish or strengthen a partnership
Step 4: Create a shared understanding of how you will work together
Step 5: Create a vision
Step 6: Take an ecological approach
Step 9: Plan the difference you want to make
Step 10: Consider the evidence
Step 11: Plan how you will make the difference
Step 12: Develop a work plan
What is the QPP?
3 communities… 3 responses
Gympie – Barb
Laidley/Hatton Vale – Nicci
Gold Coast – Sheryle,
Summary reflection…
What we understand is slightly different for everyone…
Building shared understandings is so important and a constant challenge
Learnings
Building shared understandings
How will we work together?
What do you expect from each other in this room?
What do you expect from the workshop facilitators/ presenters?
Working together…
Reflection
What did we learn?
Why bother?
What might it mean for our work together?
Summary reflection…
QPP communities
What we learnt from developing a Working Together Agreement
QPP: 3 local communities…3 journeys….
The journey: Gympie
The journey: Laidley/Hatton Vale
The journey: Gold Coast
What guides the process?
The Platforms roadmap
Start
Get started
Build
Build a
comprehensive
early childhood
community
partnershipLearn
Learn about the
community
Plan
Plan for change
using an outcomes-
based approach
Implement
Support
implementation of
the plan
Review
Review and reflect
on the work of the
partnership
Step 1: Raise awareness
Step 7: Collect information
Step 8: Make sense of the information
Step 13: Identify your continuous improvement plan
Step 14: Implement, monitor and adapt
Step 15: Evaluate the change for children, families and the community
Step 16: Reflect on the change in service delivery, culture and practice
Step 17: Consider next steps
Part
1:
Star
t, e
stab
lish
an
d le
arn
Part
2:
Pla
n, i
mp
lem
ent
and
rev
iew
Step 2: Harness support
Step 3: Establish or strengthen a partnership
Step 4: Create a shared understanding of how you will work together
Step 5: Create a vision
Step 6: Take an ecological approach
Step 9: Plan the difference you want to make
Step 10: Consider the evidence
Step 11: Plan how you will make the difference
Step 12: Develop a work plan
Summary reflection…
QPP communities
Our thoughts about the Platforms roadmap as a ‘guide’ or ‘practice framework’
What guides the process?
Local leadership
QPP communities
Our thoughts about local leadership
QPP processes
QPP communities
Lack of community members
QPP processes
QPP communities
Lack of a community liaison role
QPP processes
QPP communities
Time and the timeframe of the QPP and its implications
QPP processes
QPP communities
Site specific challenges
Where we are now…
QPP communities
• Laidley and Hatton Vale
• Gympie
• Gold Coast
Community liaison and coordination
Practice supports for collaboration
Clarity of purpose, process and outcomes
Timeframes that support practice and sustained change
Community participation…
Authorising environments..
Building Community Capacity for Children and Families:
The Queensland Platforms Project (QPP)
• Questions?
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and
The Royal Children’s Hospital Centre for Community Child Health
www.rch.org.au/ccch
www.rch.org.au/ccch/consultancy/Platforms
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