We all know that early childhood experiences have a significant influence on a young person's life trajectory, which is why the early years are a key opportunity for preventative and early intervention support.
Putting Queensland Kid First: Giving our Kids the opportunity of a lifetime Plan is to help set our youngest Queenslanders on positive and healthy pathways and empower families to build the best foundations for their children at every stage of life. It strengthens preventative and early supports for Queensland children and families, at critical milestones and periods of development.
Key components of the package include:
- Partnering for connected, community-led delivery - Collaborative partnerships with non-government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-controlled organisations to support, local, placed-based responses to diverse community needs.
- Wellbeing in the earliest years of life - Supporting children to be born and raised healthy in their families, connected to culture, and supported in their development so they start life with the best foundations for lifelong wellbeing.
- Supporting families and strengthening communities - strengthening holistic and wraparound supports for families and communities and responding to the needs of parents, caregivers and kin to create the best conditions for children to thrive.
- Responsive support for healthy development and positive life courses - supporting individual development through the earliest possible access to support to identify and respond to the diverse needs of Queensland children.
- Supporting confident steps through life and learning - encouraging confident transitions steps as children grow and develop, from early learning and across key phases of learning to set them on positive pathways for the future.
