Children’s Ground

Children’s Ground is designed, led and delivered by First Nations communities in the Northern Territory. Every child born today should experience a lifetime of opportunity, entering adulthood strong in their identity and culture, connected to their local and global world, and economically independent. If all children can experience this basic right, then whole communities will enjoy wellbeing.

We have ten operational principles and we integrate services across five key areas:
– Learning and Wellbeing
– Health and Wellbeing
– Creative and Cultural Development and Wellbeing
– Community Development and Wellbeing
– Economic Development and Wellbeing

The Children’s Ground Approach is a fully integrated system of services needed for whole of community change over a generation. We focus on prevention, early intervention and empowerment rather than crisis and deficit. We are implementing a system that recognises First Nations governance, solutions and systems of knowledge, complemented by Western leading practice.