Taking a place-based approach to support

Understand the context of the place using local data and identify the place’s strengths, needs, challenges, historical investment, and to know and engage with key stakeholders across community, services, business, and government

Engage and collaborate with the community, local organisations, and delivery partners to establish a shared vision and objectives and inform the design of the place, data sovereignty, service planning, and decision-making.

Focus on leveraging the existing asset-based strengths of a place, including culture and heritage, as a foundation to enhance the effectiveness of services and avoid restricting the community’s capacity to participate

Embed the participation, leadership, and data sovereignty of First Nations People and Communities into all stages and activities of the place

Places should not only deliver services, but empower partners and the community through learning and upskilling, benefiting the efficacy and quality of service delivery and improving collaboration between a place’s parts

Places require long-term planning and investment to fully realise desired outcomes. This includes committing to relationships, addressing systemic local inequalities and advocating for change.

Establish a staged monitoring and evaluation plan with integrated cycles of learning and improvement to assess the effectiveness of processes and the impact of the place on community outcomes