Community hubs serve as gateways to services for families and are a way for services to reach families.
Hubs establish partnerships so other organisations can deliver programs within the hub and connect to families. When building partnerships, you should:
- Map the interests and needs of your hub families to particular organisations.
- Ensure that the partnerships can be built between the hub and the organisation rather than an individual. That way, if there is staff turnover it won’t impact your partnership.
- Share our reports and philosophy statement with organisations you are partnering with.
- Establish a formal documented partnership with each organisation, such as a memorandum of understanding.
- Speak to your support coordinator and local hub leaders to establish group partnerships.
Hub leader tip
I don’t run the hub programs myself. It’s more practical to link to other services that already have funding, as we have connections to the families they want to support. They provide the services and this gives me the flexibility and time required to focus on building in-depth relationships and understanding the families.
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