Welcome to our website. For those who are new to visiting the Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership (TQKP), please note that TQKP is not part of the proposed Thriving Kids program that was recently announced. If your enquiry is about the proposed Thriving Kids program, you can find out more here or contact the Commonwealth Department of Health, Disability and Ageing.
Imagine a Queensland where every child and young person is thriving...
Together, we’re changing systems for kids in Queensland
Six portfolios of work weave together to support every child, in every community, according to their needs.
Engaging hearts and mindsets
Positive shifts in how Queensland’s public, decision-makers, practitioners, parents and other caregivers – think, feel, speak and act about what is needed for children, young people, their families and communities to thrive.
Enabling stewards and voices
Leaders and change makers work together to steward systems change; heed the lived experience of children, young people, their families and communities; and become more accountable to them.
Growing investments and impacts
The scale, flow, equity and impact of public, philanthropic and corporate resources is expanded so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive, with a focus on fairness according to need.
Building brains and bodies
Families, caregivers, workforces and communities are applying science-based knowledge, skills and tools for building healthy brains and bodies so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Strengthening places and spaces
Queensland places are more child friendly, with the right supports and services, and the social, economic, physical and digital environments so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Integrating hubs and spokes
Service and system experiences are high-quality, integrated and equitable so that children, young people, their families and communities thrive.
Together, we’re changing systems for kids in Queensland
Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership is a movement of people and organisations working to improve the systems that shape the lives of children and young people, so that every child and young person has what they need to thrive, no matter their background or where they live.
Note: When we talk about ‘children’ we’re referring to the age range from conception, through infancy, childhood and adolescence to young adulthood.
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children
Let’s walk alongside and learn from First Nations leaders and communities
Brain Builders
Let’s use neuroscience to inform our policies and practices to help build healthy brains & bodies
Childhood Builders
Let’s make sure everyone who works with children has access to proven tools, evidence & frameworks
Country Kids
Let’s bring together rural, regional and remote systems & knowledge to make sure country kids aren’t missing out
Kids in Disasters
Let’s work together to support child wellbeing and resilience in disasters
Thriving Kids - Data
Let’s collate, share and use the information we have to make better decisions for children
Better Early Years Systems
Let’s align our early years systems to give every child across Queensland a great start
Enabling Workforces
Let’s support our workforces with the information and resources they need to build young brains and bodies
Framing for Thriving Kids
Let’s use & promote proven communication models to get our messaging right for our kids, parents and workforces
Integrated services (Child & Family Hubs)
Let’s grow our network of services hubs to give families access to the supports they need, when they need them
Investment Reform
Let’s work to put children at the centre of all our funding policies and decisions
Thriving Places
Let’s unite and support the thriving place-based work happening across Queensland to create great communities for families
Who we are
Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership is a growing partnership of people and organisations working together for Queensland’s children and young people.
We bring governments, community, industry, philanthropy, and universities together to drive real change across Queensland. With many 100s of organisations and people already involved, we’re building connections and action at local, regional, and state levels so every young Queenslander can thrive.
How you can get involved
We rely on partners and collaborators at all levels—people and organisations with the knowledge and ability to make a difference where it matters most.
Get involved and help create a healthier, fairer Queensland for every young Queenslander.
Resource library
Better knowledge, and support to put it into practice, leads to better health and wellbeing for children and young people.
Explore research, case studies, and tools about child and adolescent development, health and wellbeing to build your confidence and create real change.
Upcoming events
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What surrounds us, shapes us
What happens to us in childhood shapes lifelong health and wellbeing.
We’re working to make sure every young Queenslander grows up healthy, supported, resilient and ready to thrive.
Explainer video: "What surrounds us shapes us"
This short explainer video introduces the Resilience Scale and ARACY’s The Nest framework as models to help understand how experiences and environments shape children’s health and development.
Partnerships charter
Our Charter clearly sets out the partnership’s shared goals, values and ways of working to improve systems for Queensland’s children. We invite you to review the Charter and join us if you support our shared vision for Queensland kids.
Report: Queensland Place-Based Rivermap
The Queensland Place-Based Rivermap proposes systemic actions to support our many place-based initiatives. Let’s work together to create local conditions that are good for families and kids.
We all contribute differently to Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership and are all equally benefiting from it.
Funding partners
This partnership will bridge the gap between research and practical application, ensuring all children have access to the support they need to develop and flourish.
Professor Karen Thorpe
Laureate Fellow - Queensland Brain Institute
TQKP brings together everyone with an important role to play in improving things for kids in Queensland. It’s a whole of society endeavour and it’s important. The Bryan Foundation is delighted to be working with other leading philanthropic organisations to help make it happen.
Matthew Cox
Executive Director - The Bryan Foundation
Too many young Queenslanders are behind before they even start their adult life, and they are facing more challenges than ever before. That’s why we need to build the systems and structures that will best help young people in need to thrive in adult life. Through TQKP the leaders of our communities, as well as policy makers and funders, can come together to understand what works and what matters for young Queenslanders. TQKP will steer this conversation here in Queensland so that we can give young people the best chance for success in their adult lives. Hand Heart Pocket is proud be part of this collaborative approach.
Sara Parrott
CEO - Hand Heart Pocket
It’s not everyday that you get the opportunity to work in such a beautifully considered and developed structure, where leadership is provided in the most important ways. The TKiD Leadership Alliance has been invaluable. TKiD coordinates our efforts so that we can all contribute collectively to something that has the ability to take us to the next level. TKiD means our ideas can find a bigger system, a place to sit, a place to stay and a place to grow.
Helen Travers
TKiD Leadership Alliance member, Helen Travers, Youth Empowered Towards Independence (YETI), FNQ
…it has really shaped the way I start doing things now, in terms of my research but then also my teaching (…). It is also just for my own personal brain awareness and self-awareness – who am I as a person, as a wife, and a mother.
Partner on learning about the brain story
The students have really enjoyed it, are taking it on board, and it has generated some really great discussion.
Partner feedback about students’ engagement with the neuroscience material
This is not new science… The challenge is to implement it. So it affects parents, it affects children, it affects teachers, people looking after children. It affects all of us and we’ve got to integrate and bring all that together so that children have the best start in life.
Norman Swan, Physician, ABC Radio Presenter, & ARACY Board Member - about neuroscience
This is not new science… The challenge is to implement it. So it affects parents, it affects children, it affects teachers, people looking after children. It affects all of us and we’ve got to integrate and bring all that together so that children have the best start in life.
