Logan Together
We are Logan, Together
Logan Together is a community movement committed to the wellbeing of every child in Logan, from 0 to 8 years of age. Our big goal is to see Logan’s children happy and healthy now and for generations to come. We believe that the only way this can be achieved is to listen to the community and work together with the community.
We are coming together as a collective of Logan locals, co-designing and implementing ways to see every child in Logan have every opportunity to be the very best they can be.
Our work rests on three pillars - First Nations First, Children at the heart, Community led.
Website currently being refreshed. Launching early 2026.
we’re excited to launch a new site showcasing our work and impact in early 2026.
What does Logan Together do?
Logan Together started in 2015 with a focus on community, government, funders and the service sector working together to see Logan’s children happy, healthy and thriving now and for generations to come.
Logan Together brings together a diverse group of people, including residents, businesses, community organisations, and government agencies. We work on common goals, tackle issues and celebrate the successes that are central to our community.
If we intend to disrupt the system, to shift the power, we need to ensure that
children and families who live in Logan have both agency and a strong voice
Who is Logan Together?
We are Logan, together.
Our governance structure is designed to facilitate effective collaboration and collective decision-making. At its core is our Leadership Table, Gnirigomindala Karulbo, and our Board. We then have our Action Groups and Backbone team.
The governance structure of Logan Together embodies principles of shared responsibility, collaboration, and co-design, ensuring that decisions are made collectively and implementation efforts are coordinated for maximum impact.
How does Logan Together work?
Logan Together works by listening to community and turning what matters most into shared action. Through initiatives like 1000 Voices and Splash!, community members shared what they want for children and families in Logan. These priorities were brought together into the Logan Together Roadmap — a community-owned plan that sets out what success looks like for children from pregnancy through the early years.
The Roadmap guides how partners work together and how progress is measured over time. It aligns community, services, government and other partners around shared priorities, using data and agreed indicators to track progress, learn what’s working, and adapt where needed. This collective approach ensures action stays focused on community priorities and long-term change for children and families in Logan.
Focus Communities
By going deep into Focus Communities, Logan Together is strengthening community agency and leadership at the local level. We know that lasting change for children 0–8 cannot be achieved through broad coordination alone. It requires cumulative, integrated responses grounded in place.
Established in 2021, the Focus Community Strategy represents our deliberate shift to scaling deep. Rather than expanding programs across the region, we enable five networked, place-based Collective Impact initiatives. Each Focus Community is developing its own governance structures, local Backbone Team, Collective Plan and Roadmap, designed to activate local leadership and drive meaningful systems change.
These Focus Communities are connected through shared cultural foundations, aligned to Logan’s Collective Plan and First 2000 Days model, and networked to leverage strengths, learning and resources. The Logan Together Backbone team provides enabling infrastructure across data and evaluation, communications, sustainability and governance, building Collective Impact capability while ensuring communities remain in the lead.
This is not program delivery. It is place-based systems change, where community voice shapes priorities, decisions and action.
Logan's First 2000 Days
Logan’s First 2000 Days model identifies five evidence-based initiatives and five enablers of system change that support the critical early years of a child’s life. By intentionally stacking and connecting these initiatives and enablers, we can create an early childhood development system that is accessible to all children - generating amplifying, life-changing impact.
The Logan community understands that the first 2000 days of a child’s life lay the critical foundations for lifelong learning, health and wellbeing. We also know what success looks like across these early years. Through our Collective Plan and Roadmap, we have a shared vision and measurable outcomes that guide our efforts.
At the same time, our collective insights and lived experience tell us that the current early childhood journey in Logan can be complex, confusing and at times invisible to the very families and children it is designed to support.
The system is impacted by multiple pressures that affect both service quality and long-term outcomes. Policy gaps, workforce recruitment challenges, skill shortages and fragmented resourcing flows have contributed to a disjointed landscape — one where services can feel unknown, inaccessible or misaligned with community need.
"We're trying to make a splash in the community because we want to hear what the people are saying about the needs for their community and the growth of their children."
Levon Kardashian, Logan Together Leadership Table
