Communities for Children
Acknowledgement of Country
We would like to say Thank You to the Yuggera and Yugambeh speaking people for letting us share your land, the water and the stars. We promise to look after it, the animals and people too. We honour and remember our Ancestors of the past through them we stregthen our connection to Country.
Acknowledgement spoken by children at The Family Place
Artwork commissioned by Rosie's Early Learning Centre
Our Vision
Our vision for Logan is that all our people: children, families, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those from other diverse cultures are at the forefront of all the decisions that impact their lives.
Our Principles
Our overarching principles are prevention and early support; evidence-based practice; creating an inclusive, holistic service system; respectful cultural relatationships and connection; child centred and family focused; demonstrating and facilitating mentoring and modelling; inspiring leadership and innovation.
Our Priority Areas
First Nations First
A generational strategy led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to co-design and action real projects that challenge but still develop systemic change while improving and deepening outcomes for children and families.
Community Led
We believe power should be shared equally across our diverse community. Together we have to change the discourse and build the trust so that we achieve the shared aspirations for Logan's children and families. If we intend to disrupt the system, to shift the power, we need to ensure those children and families have both agency and a strong voice. Our community are those who get up in the morning and go to bed at night in Logan: whose children live in Logan and have a deep and abiding love for those children.
Children at the Heart
Evidence shows children who thrive have all the material basics. They also need to feel loved and safe, be healthy, are able to learn and actively participate in a community filled with aspiration and hope, where they are deeply valued and their voices are heard.
Strengthening and Evelvating Community Gateways
Evidence supports a universal platform as the most effective way for families and children, irrespective of their circumstances and experience of vulnerability, to access services and more targeted support when needed. Community Gateways are a key part to building a thriving local community and thriving children. They provide families with opportunities to develop social networks to learn from each other, to take part in activities that benefit them and their children, and to link with the wider service system where this is needed in a timely way. Community Gateways enable organisations to provide prevention and early support for families alongside crisis support, through robust models that have been evidenced both locally and nationally.
