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Engaged Community

Nurturing and maintaining positive, effective relationships between school staff, students, their families and the broader community leads to improved learning experiences and educational outcomes for students. Local community capacity is strengthened when it is built on trust, respect for others, common goals and high expectations for students' achievement.

Strategies proposed to engage communities could include:

providing parent and family support programs from the school to better meet the needs of students and their families through the introduction of multidisciplinary teams
providing parenting programs that support those with children in the early and middle years of schooling and assist parents to access these programs when required
piloting community liaison officers to assist schools in establishing closer partnerships with their local community through local initiatives such as homework programs, sporting clubs and play groups
maximising government and community investment by strategic partnering with
- major social enterprise organisations with programs focused on reducing the impact of socioeconomic disadvantage on young people and school clusters
- other government departments on key cross-agency initiatives such as community renewal and the Logan Beenleigh Young Persons' Project
- universities which will provide access to academic support and expertise in designing, monitoring and evaluating key strategies.

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