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Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership

2025-2030 Impact Strategy - Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership
Enabling Workforces and Organisation for Thriving Kids:
Enabling Workforces Implementation Guide highlighting examples of translation to practice, including curricula embedding by TAFE Qld and University Sunshine Coast
Enabling Workforce Toolkit which brings together evidence-based, no/low-cost existing offerings organised according to five core capability strands:

Emerging Minds Learning

Understanding Brain Development

Early Childhood Australia

Early childhood and neuroscience : Theory research and implications for practice
The book is a practical guide to understanding the complex and challenging subject of neuroscience and it use in early childhood policy and practice.
Little brains matter : A practical guide to brain development and neuroscience in early childhood
This accessible guide introduces neuroscience, demystifying terminology and language and increasing the knowledge, skills and, importantly, confidence of anyone interested in brain development in early childhood.
Neuroscience for Dummies
Explore how the brain impacts memory, learning, and emotions Discover how the brain is connected with other physical systems
The Neuroscience of the Developing Child
The Neuroscience of the Developing Child informs Early Years (EY) students, practitioners and parents about the fundamental importance of self-regulation (SR) as a critical skill for young children to develop if they are to go on to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
The Neuroscience of Adolescence
The Neuroscience of Adolescence is a comprehensive educational tool for developmental cognitive neuroscience students at all levels as it details the varying elements that shape the adolescent brain.

Person

Training
Understanding individual differences

Emerging Minds Learning

Autism and Learning Differences
Teaching essential skills for life, school, work, and independent living, this comprehensive and practical toolkit supports educators and clinicians in their work with adolescents and young adults with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or Learning Difference (LD) diagnosis.
Tools for Understanding neuroplasticity and neurodiversity in the classroom
Neurodiversity involves an understanding that neurological differences should be honoured and respected. It is a strengths-based model based on the idea that people experience and interact with the world around them in many different ways, advocating that there is no single right way of thinking, learning, and behaving. I
What Is Stress?
This book delves into the essential SEL skill of stress management, an integral component of the SEL core concept of self-management. Readers will learn what stress is and how to handle it.
Understanding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
ISBN: 9781849053945

Accessible and informative, this is the essential guide to FASD for social workers, family placement teams, child protection workers, foster carers, adoptive parents, midwives and teachers.

Society

Emerging Minds Learning

The Body-Brain Connection
In The Body-Brain Connection, author Gravity Goldberg explores the powerful relationship between physical activity and cognitive function.
Building Resilience in Children and Teens
Help prepare the children and teens in your life to face life's challenges with grace and grit.
Healing Trauma in Children: a Practical Guide for Foster and Kinship Carers
This book aims to help carers understand trauma and its impact on the vulnerable child they are caring for.
The Neurobiology of Attachment-Focused Therapy
Uniting attachment-focused therapy and neurobiology to help distrustful and traumatized children revive a sense of trust and connection.
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource
Nurturing Attachments Training Resource is a complete group-work programme containing everything you need to run training and support sessions for adoptive parents and foster or kinship carers.
Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators
This second edition of Trauma-Informed Practices for Early Childhood Educators continues to guide childcare providers and early educators working with infants, toddlers, pre-schoolers, and early elementary-aged children to understand trauma as well as its impact on young children's brains, behavior, learning, and development.
Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches
An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children.

This animation gives an overview of the Resilience Scale and The Nest Wellbeing Framework: What Surrounds Us Shapes Us_Resilience Scale and The Nest animation. It can be used alongside the Tipping the Scale is Everybody’s Business resource – embedding into curricula and induction.

There is also a poignant video with an example of real-life application of the Resilience Scale with an Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent. University of Sunshine Coast have had some inspiring data from their integration of the Resilience Scale into their Early Educator preservice Curricula.