Frankston North
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Sustained implementation – Step Five
bookmarksSite priorities
- Parent and carer active participation in services to support their child’s health and development.
- Parent and carer engagement and confidence to support their child’s learning, development, and wellbeing.
- High attendance rates in all learning settings.
- Families are strongly connected through social, cultural, and recreational activities.
groups Site Partnership Group
Aldercourt Primary School, Mahogany Rise Primary School, Monterey Secondary College, Department of Education, Frankston City Council, Peninsula Health, Community Kinders Plus and Colman Education Foundation (Our Place).
attach_money Funding Partner
RM Ansett Trust, as managed by Equity Trustees.
>4,931
attendances in 2023
An attendance happens each time a person attends a service or activity.
keyboard_return Looking Back
Moving Forward keyboard_return
- Community Health Hub: Launched partnership with Peninsula Health, utilising resources from their Allied Health, Children’s Services and Access Teams, to provide timely and equitable access to healthcare for Frankston North families.
- Addressing food security: Introduced program with Foodbank and Monterey Secondary College with the support of community volunteers. A positive outcome is that students developed a Healthy Meals on a Budget cookbook.
- Collaboration with schools: Increased opportunities for the Our Place team to participate in school planning meetings and contribute to transition planning and events for students.
- Young Parents’ Playgroup: Co-facilitated additional playgroups to support families with Peninsula Health to witness a steady increase in participation over the last term.
- Career counselling: Embedded service at Monterey Secondary College in partnership with Chisholm Institute to assist with identifying pathways to skills, training and employment.
- Reading programs: Introduced Storytime in the Park as a new activity to support both primary school’s reading programs, with the aim to encourage every child tocomplete 200 reading nights per year.
- Community consultation: Undertake a consultation and review process with families and service providers to review our current site priorities and develop a new Strategic Plan. Promoting young people’s voices as agents for change will be a priority focus.
- Service coordination: Increase warm referrals pathways by coordinating communication efforts with our partners and services to maximise connection with families and community.
- Improving student attendance: Collaborate with students, families and community partners to make a collective impact by working on a site-wide approach and a focus on higher attendance rates.
- Adult support pathways: Expand adult engagement and participation opportunities available on-site support to enable adult skills, training, learning, and employment.
- Early literacy: Support Paint the Town REaD activities to share information with parents about early literacy, with the aim to encourage and increase parental i nvolvement in supporting their child’s learning.