Navigate Logan's First 2000 Days Model
What is Logan's First 2000 Days Model?
Logan’s First 2000 Days Model identifies 5 evidence-based initiatives, and 5 enablers of systems 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.
The community co-designed First 2000 Days Model helps bring the outcomes and impacts identified in our Collective Plan to life. Our Roadmap then describes the indicators that show whether we are making progress in line with our shared vision.
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Collective Impact in Logan
Collectively improving the wellbeing of every child in Logan, from 0 to 8 years of age.
What is Collective Impact in Logan?
Logan Together’s Collective Impact model operates at both a whole-of-Logan level and within each Focus Community. This allows the movement to hold a shared regional vision, while supporting locally led priorities, relationships and action in each place.
Collective Impact brings community, services, government, business and philanthropy together around a shared goal, shared learning and coordinated action.1
[1] Our collective impact model has been informed by and adapted from Collective Impact 3.0, CABAJ M, Weaver L. Collective Impact 3.0, 2016.
The universal elements of Collective Impact
Logan Together’s six principles of Collective Impact shape how we work:
Container for Change
Community Mobilisation
Two-way Learning
Strategic Learning
High Leverage Actions
Sustainability
What is Collective Impact achieving in Logan?
33,100
(and counting) community members engaging with Logan Together1
Over 100 partners, including three tiers of government, community organisations, private business and philanthropic entities, align efforts to achieve the shared objectives of Logan Together.
1 Through Mums n’ Bubs Logan, Community co-design workshops, community forums and voice collections.
Most significant changes
Across Logan, the most significant changes have been identified as Healing and Reconciliation, Social connectedness, Community pride and agency, Civic participation, Leadership, Governance.2
2 The Most Significant Change process was conducted by Logan Together in 2023 to ask the Logan community about the most significant change due to Logan Together’s collective impact efforts.
2,137 community voices
have contributed to Logan Together’s regional and Focus Community Collective Plans, helping shape local priorities, actions and decisions for children and families across Logan.
Community Researchers
As part of Logan Together’s Collective Impact approach, community members are building their skills as community researchers – learning how to gather meaningful local data, listen to community experiences and demonstrate the impact of community-led action.
Why Collective Impact in Logan Matters
Logan Together’s big goal is to see every child in Logan healthy, happy and thriving, now and for generations to come. This goal was co-created by community, after collecting community voices and creating Logan’s Collective Plan.
By fostering a shared understanding of the vision for the future, the issues and challenges that stand in the way and the coordinated approach required to solve them, Collective Impact in Logan is working to close developmental gaps and ensure that every child has the chance to thrive. This model addresses both immediate needs and long-term community development, creating sustainable change for generations to come.
As each Focus Community has emerged, those communities have undertaken or are undertaking the same process to develop a Community Collective Plan specific to them. In practice, this means that while everyone in the Logan Together movement is committed to improving the wellbeing of every child in Logan, now and into the future, each Focus Community may identify different priorities and different ways of responding to them.
Logan Together’s vision for the future of Collective Impact
- stronger community autonomy and leadership
- communities learning from and alongside each other, including through networks such as the Queensland Place Network
- increasing cross-sector collaboration across community, services, government, business and philanthropy
- systems that work better for people
- stronger documentation and evidence of the impact of place-based approaches
- collective impact being recognised and resourced as part of business as usual across communities nationally
The challenges for Collective Impact in Logan
Collective Impact requires long-term commitment, resourcing and shared accountability.
Like many place-based movements, Logan Together continues to navigate sustainability challenges.
Constraints, Limitations and Demands
Resourcing constraints, data-sharing limitations and the demands of on-the-ground work can make it difficult to consistently document and evidence impact.
Clearer, cut-through messaging
The field also needs clearer, cut-through messaging that helps demystify Collective Impact for communities, funders and government.
Across the field,
there is also a need to strengthen shared learning, scale what works and transfer knowledge more effectively.
Three pillars guide every aspect of Logan Together’s work:
First Nations First
Children at the Heart
Community Led
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Real Stories of Collective Impact in Logan in Action
How you can get involved
For Families & Carers:
Participate in local co-design initiatives and opportunities
For Services & Organisations:
Align your work with Logan Together’s goals, share best practices, and contribute to coordinated action across the community
