Doveton
flag Implementation phase
Initial implementation – Steps Three and Four
bookmarksSite priorities
- Children in the Doveton community grow up
healthy and happy. - Families can access key health and early learning
services. - Improve adult learning and employment opportunities.
- Families in Doveton are connected and engaged.
- Improved attendance of children and families.
groups Site Partnership Group
City of Casey, Department of Education, Doveton College, Doveton Neighbourhood Learning Centre, 54 Reasons, Department of Families, Fairness and Housing, and Colman Education Foundation (Our Place).
attach_money Funding Partner
Brian M. Davis Charitable Foundation (2024).
>14,643
attendances in 2023
An attendance happens each time a person attends a service or activity.
keyboard_return Looking Back
Moving Forward keyboard_return
- Early Years Network: Professional leaders exchanged best practices and raised awareness of challenges faced by Doveton families and services.
- Adult learning and employment support: Career counsellors available on-site every Monday and Thursday, providing valuable support to community members for career development, job search, and skills enhancement.
- Parental confidence: Established a productive partnership with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, focusing on enhancing parent capacity through targeted weekly small groups.
- ParentsNext program: Offered support and funding to parents pursuing work and study goals and connected parents to local training opportunities, job support, and assistance for re-entering the workforce.
- Reading initiatives: Collaborated with 123Read2Me and Kiwanis Australia to provide books, ensuring children and families have access to free publications.
- Service collaboration: Launched a pilot project with the City of Casey and 54 Reasons that integrates Maternal and Child Health Key Ages and Stages appointments within on-site playgroups.
- Early years: Focus will shift towards Continuity of Learning within the context of Australian Early Development Census developmental domains, promoting a coordinated approach to early intervention and service access. Targeted messaging to stakeholders will support home learning, including the exploration of Baby College.
- Supporting newly arrived families: Emphasis on settlement support as efforts increase to understand and assist newly arrived families. Enhanced engagement with settlement agencies to ensure newcomers are aware of on-site opportunities for community integration.
- Addressing long-term unemployment: Increase efforts to understand barriers to long-term unemployment, particularly for CALD families. Support for access to employment, training, and career development will be provided, with an emphasis on organising volunteer support.
- Improving student attendance: A proactive approach to address non-attendance will be pursued, with the development of innovative strategies under a whole-site attendance campaign to engage parents effectively.