Helping Families Living With Adversity in Rocklea-Acacia Ridge (QLD)

Collective approaches to building trust and providing support.

Summary

The Rocklea-Acacia Ridge community is made up of the southern suburbs of Rocklea, Archerfield and Acacia Ridge in Brisbane.

AEDC data showed 59.3% of children were developmentally vulnerable on one or more domain, however this decreased to 30.6% over a decade.

A partnership model was employed for a Community Hub to bring various services together into a comprehensive service delivery system for families and children. This provides a soft entry approach to support services for parents and carers for accessing health, wellbeing, parenting and early childhood development services. 


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