Community hubs serve as gateways for families to access existing services, filling the gaps rather than duplicating existing services.
As a support coordinator, you can assist hub leaders and school leadership staff to create connections and foster partnerships with support services in their community to enhance your hub’s offering.
- Offer to connect hub leaders with local support services that could help their families.
- Recommend that hub leaders invite representatives from local services to their hub leader meetings.
- Identify service network meetings that might be valuable for your hubs and attend these so you can pass on information to your hubs. You can also have minutes supplied for the meetings you can't attend, then pass them on to your hub leaders.
Share local stories
Collaborate with other support agencies and CHA to share local stories
- Actively participate in national meetings chaired by CHA, at least quarterly.
- Openly participate in collaborative activities with other support agencies in the national network.
- Support, and in some cases deliver, the rollout of hub leader professional development training provided through the NCHP.
- Collect and share local stories through the NCHP network via established channels.
Handy resources for your hub leaders
Learn about your community
Some tips and ideas about how to explore what their hub community has and what it needs.
How family friendly is your school?
A checklist for hub leaders to work through with hub families.
How to sustain a partnership
A guide to evaluating and sustaining community partnerships.
What can I do for hub leaders?
Encourage them to build strong relationships with local agencies and services.
Particularly those organisations that may offer services to support families. They know their clients well and can personally introduce them to you and the hub. Your hub leaders may ask for guidance around this from you and the other hub leaders in your local area network.
Advise hub leaders to develop connections with the local council.
Particularly the children and family services, community development and social cohesion teams. Other sections of the council that may be useful for hub leaders to connect with include the community education, allied health, grants, and sport and recreation teams.
Help to promote hub activities