Walking Together
Action Groups
Walking alongside families from the very beginning
Supporting children and families from pregnancy through to school by creating connected services, a skilled workforce and coordinated support across the Macleay Valley.
What we're aiming to achieve
🔗 Connected Early Childhood Systems
Creating a coordinated early childhood system where families, services and community partners work together to give every child the best possible start.
🌱 A Strong Local Workforce
Building a skilled, culturally responsive early childhood workforce that reflects and supports our community.
🫂 Wraparound Family Support
Ensuring families can access the right support at the right time through coordinated services working together.
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Strong education, stronger futures
Creating inclusive, culturally responsive schools where every young person in the Macleay Valley feels connected, supported and able to thrive.
What we're aiming to achieve
🧩 Inclusive Schooling
Creating schools where Aboriginal students, multicultural students, students with disability and students experiencing behavioural challenges are supported to engage and succeed.
📚 Culturally Grounded Curriculum
Building a curriculum that promotes equity, wellbeing, engagement and local cultural knowledge.
🤝 School–Community Partnership
Strengthening connection, collaboration and shared decision-making between schools and the community.
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Facing the past with honesty, walking forward with strength
Fostering culturally safe spaces for truth-telling, healing and intergenerational connection across the Macleay Valley.
What we're aiming to achieve
🌿 Healing Spaces
Creating schools where Aboriginal students, multicultural students, students with disability and students experiencing behavioural challenges are supported to engage and succeed.
Honouring the Dunghutti Nation 🖤💛❤️
Recognising and respecting the Dunghutti Nation across all programs in the Macleay Valley, with cultural protocols observed and Elders’ voices central to decision-making.
🤲 Intergenerational Healing
Supporting younger generations to heal and become future knowledge holders.
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Building respect, strengthening relationships, keeping families safe
Building respect, strengthening relationships, keeping families safe.
What we're aiming to achieve
💪 Community Capacity
Increasing local capacity for problem-solving, mediation and collaborative responses to conflict.
💛 Family Safety
Strengthening family safety and reducing family and domestic violence over time.
🚦Early Intervention & Diversion
Reducing crisis, justice-system involvement and repeat offending among young people.
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