How you can get involved

Child and family

• Starting a conversation. The Talking Families website and Facebook page offer a range of handy tips and information for both families and friends wanting to help.
• Offer a family practical support.
• Looking for opportunities to get involved in your local community. Volunteering Queensland lists opportunities to help out children and young people in your community.
• Help children and young people by becoming a foster carer.
• Reporting your concerns about child abuse don’t ignore them.
• Becoming a Child Safety Officer and changing a child’s life.
• Breakthrough for Families helps families and significant others of individuals affected by ice and other drugs to obtain information, develop support strategies, and connect to treatment and other services.
• Visiting our Play your part website to find out more about how to keep children safe.
• Signing up to receive eNews about the Supporting Families Changing Futures reform program, which is focused on delivering the right services at the right time to support families and keep children safely at home.

Youth justice

Do you want to help young people to change their story? You can get involved by:

• providing cultural support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in the youth justice system, or at risk of entering the system
• becoming a Transition 2 Success partner and using your expertise, industry contacts or equipment to help young people completing the program
• supporting and mentoring young people who participate in Transition 2 Success while they are in the program and after they finish the program
• representing your community in a restorative justice conference or supporting follow up activities
• helping to support young people at your local youth justice service centre
• suggesting that your community organisation partners with a local youth justice service centre to provide community service opportunities for young people.

For further information or to get involved in other Youth Justice initiatives that help young people across the state, contact ODDGYJ@youthjustice.qld.gov.au  

Multicultural affairs

Do you want to see better outcomes for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and help to build safe, caring and connected communities? You can get involved by:

• encouraging understanding, acceptance and respect in your community
• celebrating multicultural diversity and support connected and welcoming communities
• taking your family or friends to a multicultural event [insert link to event calendar]
• visiting the Racism. It stops with me website
• considering an application for funding under the Celebrating Multicultural Queensland program to promote Queensland’s multicultural identity and encourage community participation and intercultural connections.

More information

Visit the Queensland Government Get Involved website to have your say on government consultations.