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Strategy

Our community’s vision is 

opportunity, equity, and quality of life for everyone in our community.

Foundation Assumption

Children born into happy, safe homes with happy, healthy parents, are statistically more likely to have a happy and healthy life with access to employment and education opportunities.

To achieve our collective vision, our community identified objectives are:

 

  • Our families have access to life’s basics, feel independent, and have purpose.

  • Our children feel safe, happy and loved, growing up at home with their families.

  • Our children are starting school ready to learn and on track to thrive.

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Our long-term goal is to disrupt the cycle of disadvantage which is a social change endeavour and requires a whole-of-community response. 


We use statistical data and community stories to understand and meet our communities needs and measure our progress towards improved wellbeing in our region.

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By focusing on our families and enabling and supporting parents to provide a happy, healthy, and nurturing home environment, we can all help provide a great start for our children.


Ensuring our families have access to the right supports at the right time, requires a healthy, proactive supports system and a responsive, supportive community.

The work of GRT is community-led, place-based and takes a collective impact approach to creating change. Collective Impact is a framework for addressing complex social problems that involve multiple stakeholders from different sectors.  The approach aims to achieve sustainable social change by leveraging the knowledge, strengths and resources of all stakeholders involved.


This involves the whole of community, working to a shared agenda, shared actions and shared measurement. It requires diverse stakeholders to work together with trust and courage, sharing accountability for decision-making and risk, and using data to transparently track progress and collectively respond to changing circumstances and outcomes along the way. 

Collective Impact Model

Collective Impact Model

Gladstone Region engaging in action Together (GRT) is a Stronger Places,

Stronger People initiative based on a Collective Impact Model.

 

Collective Impact is a collaborative approach to addressing complex social issues, and includes these 5 Key Elements:

Open Communication

Open communication

fostering genuine collaboration through building trust and relationships

A shared
agenda

to collectively define the problem and creating a clear direction to solve it

Shared Plan of Action

A shared plan of action

for mutually reinforcing activities to maximise the end result

Shared measurement

A shared measurement framework

to track progress in the same way, which allows for continuous improvement

Backbone Team

A backbone team

with the skills and resources to keep everyone on track

Collective Impact brings people together, in a structured way, to achieve social change.

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Collective Impact is a model created by John Kania and Mark Kramer of FSG Consulting in 2011.

The work of Gladstone Region engaging in action Together is directed by a community-designed and led strategy including the: 

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