Logan Together
We are Logan, Together
Logan Together is a community-led, place-based 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 and work together with the community.
Our work rests on three pillars - First Nations First, Children at the heart, Community led.
Website currently being refreshed. 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 to bring together community, government, funders, and the service sector to co-design and implement initiatives and ways of working to see every child in Logan have every opportunity to thrive.
Today, we continue to bring together a diverse group of people that includes residents, businesses, community organisations, and government agencies. We work towards common goals, tackle issues, and celebrate the successes that are central to our community.
If we intend to disrupt the system and shift the power, we need to ensure that the
children and families of Logan have both agency and a strong voice.
Who is Logan Together?
We are Logan, together.Our governance structure facilitates effective collaboration and collective decision-making through our Leadership Table, our First Nations leadership group Gnirigomindala Karulbo, and our Board. The everyday work and functions of Logan Together are enabled by our Backbone Team, Working Groups and Co-design Teams.
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 Logan’s 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, sustainable change for children and families in Logan.
Focus Communities
In 2019, despite significant investment in Logan from all tiers of government and philanthropy, children’s outcomes weren’t changing. Residents called for more impactful approaches that allow them to share decisions about their own lives.
The Focus Community Strategy was established in 2021. It supports five discrete Collective Impact initiatives. Each Focus Community has its own governance structure, Backbone Team, Collective Plan and Roadmap, to enable meaningful locally-driven change. These Focus Communities are networked to leverage strengths, learnings and resources and ensure alignment to Logan’s Collective Plan.
The Logan Together Backbone team supports each Focus Community with data and evaluation, communications, sustainability and governance to streamline resources and build Collective Impact expertise.
By going deep into focus communities, we are working to ensure that all of Logan‘s children are loved and safe, have the material basics, are healthy, learning, participating and have a strong sense of culture and identity.
Logan's First 2000 Days
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. 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. .
In answer, 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 and amplifying life-changing impact. Through our Collective Plan and Roadmap, we have a shared vision and measurable outcomes that guide our efforts.
"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
