Our Vision

Provide one place where families who live on the Sunshine Coast can go to find out about Services for families.

Our Approach

  • To be inclusive
  • To be non-judgemental
  • To work collaboratively to assist families to access the right service at the right time
  • To improve the accessibility of services for families

Our Priorities

All children, young people and families living on the Sunshine Coast

Our Partners

  • Family and Child Connect – Act for Kids
  • Department of Child Safety Youth and Women- Principal Child Protection Practitioner
  • Refocus – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Family Support
  • Youturn Youth Support
  • Integrated Family and Youth Service
  • Anglicare
  • Nambour Community Centre
  • Caloundra Community Centre
  • Maroochydore Neighbourhood Centre
  • Lives Lived Well
  • Sunny Kids
  • Salvation Army - Doorways
  • Community Solutions – Family Wellbeing
  • Centacare – Sunshine Coast Domestic and Family Violence Service
  • Uniting Care
  • Queensland Police – Vulnerable Person’s Unit
  • Laurel Place

Governance

The partner agencies meet fortnightly to work collaboratively to improve service responses to families as members of the Sunshine Coast Family Support Collective.

The Family Support collective is an activity of the Sunshine Coast Local Level Alliance which has been funded by the Department Child Safety, Youth and Women as an outcome of the Supporting Families Changing Futures Reform Program.