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Gambling Community Benefit Fund
BUSHkids was successful in gaining GCBF funding
for the development and implementation of school
readiness programs and community training
initiatives in Bundaberg, Emerald, Inglewood and
Mount Isa.
Tertiary sector
BUSHkids continues to work with universities across
Queensland – most notably with the University of
Queensland through the telehealth project.
Speech Pathology students fromThe University of
Queensland also contributed significant voluntary
time to develop resource packs to support the
implementation of Read and Grow.
Meetings have been held with Central Queensland
University’s Schools of Occupational Therapy and
Speech and Language Pathology to explore options
for collaboration between the two organisations,
in particular around student placements and staff
recruitment.
BUSHkids is piloting the Parents Play program in
conjunction with researchers at Deakin University.
Partnerships and collaborations
Clinical
Read and Grow
Read and Grow is an emergent literacy program
which has been successfully introduced at BUSHkids
during the 2015-16 year. Our clinical leadership
team has been working closely with Communities
for Children at the Gold Coast to further develop the
program to meet the needs of our rural families and
children.
Act for Kids
An Australian charity providing support for children
and families who have experienced or are at risk of
child abuse and neglect, Act for Kids staff provided
training at our Conference to equip our therapy
teams to provide assessment and intervention from a
trauma-informed perspective. We are also exploring
collaborative work with Act for Kids in the
Bundaberg region.
Triple P
BUSHkids has a long association with the Triple P
parenting program and all staff received training in
Primary Care Triple P at the 2015 Conference. This
(and Seminar Training, provided to Psychologists and
Family Health Support Workers) has been put into
practice across the state.
Save the Children
BUSHkids partnered with Save the Children to
co-facilitate a playgroup in Emerald North. Save
the Children also presented at the BUSHkids 2016
Conference around working with vulnerable children
and families.
Pathways to ResilienceTrust
BUSHkids continues to collaborate with Pathways to
Resilience Trust to support the needs of children and
families in regional, rural and remote locations in
Queensland.
I would like to acknowledge and thank Clinical
Services Manager Susan Harrison and the Clinical
Leadership Team for their great efforts across the
year; I truly appreciate your tireless dedication to the
organisation.
Many thanks to Gail Huggins from BUSHkids
Council for her advice and guidance on our clinical
direction.
Media
Quest and APN
We continue to work with media agencies, Quest,
APN Group and local radio stations, who support
our work in helping to promote BUSHkids; we really
appreciate all their support.
Marketing
After the year-long flurry of high-profile activities in
2015, efforts this year have been reorientated towards
internal systems and preparing external resources,
notably the suite of materials for the Steady Start to
School program, with another set of bright signature
graphics (see CSM’s report, page 19) created by Matt
Tesch from
Masthead Design & Creative
.
Matt has been supporting BUSHkids since creating
our bold rebranding in 2011 and continues to play
a pivotal role behind the scenes in ensuring all our
print and electronic collateral reflects both the
underlying spirit and evolving public face of our
organisation. As the project manager for and designer
of our imminent history book, he has been even more
immersed in BUSHkids in recent years and we are
fortunate to retain his skills and vast experience as
our brand guardian and marketing consultant.
Thank you also to Darren Gardiner at iDStyle for
your ingenious creative work on behalf of BUSHkids’
marketing and promotions over the year, especially
for the eye-catching portable marquees which are
helping raise our profile at many outdoor events.
Social Media
We currently have 636 likes on Facebook, a great
increase for 2016, with 151 followers on our Twitter
account – please continue to share our pages as much
as possible to increase awareness of BUSHkids.
The University of Queensland
Community Engagement Program
The CEP provides students studying courses within
the Faculty of Business, Economic and Law (BEL) at
UQ with the opportunity to work on actual projects
with organisations in the community and not-for-
profit sectors, engaging students in an active learning
environment as a member of a project team and
working with the organisation to create tailored
solutions in response to a project brief.
A CEP team is developing an integrated social media
strategy for BUSHkids that will increase awareness
of the organisation and act as a channel to generate
donations, the focus of the project determining how
awareness and donations can be increased through
social media. Thank you to Adrian Harrison and to
Administration Manager Tiffany Bannier-King for
your time on this project, and to the UQ CEP team –
Jessica Robinson, Annabel Liu, Jing Wen and Tiana
Musu – for your boundless enthusiasm and insights.
Donor appeals
2015-16
2014-15
Pre-Christmas letters mailed out
946
1,073
Number of donations received
306
290
Pre-Tax letters mailed out
989
1,159
Number of donations received
327
353