Resources & Publications

STRATEGIC PLAN

In March 2025, Families ACT released its Strategic Plan 2025-2030. This Strategic Plan outlines Families ACT’s primary goals over this period, which include:

• Increase shared understanding of the drivers of and solutions to childhood vulnerability in the ACT.

• Increase responses to childhood vulnerability in the ACT.

• Support the development and growth of the community services working with children and families in the ACT. And,

• Provide leadership for a shared vision for the wellbeing of current and future generations.

You can access Families ACT’s Strategic Plan 2025-2030 here.

POLICY POSITIONS

• Housing and Homelessness

• Minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR)

SUBMISSIONS AND COMMENTARIES

• Families ACT Submission to ACT 2024-25 budget consultation

• Submission to Children and Young People Amendment Bill 1 Discussion paper

• Families ACT’s commentary on ACT 2023-24 budget announcements

• Families ACT’s submission to ACT 2023-24 budget consultation

• Families ACT’s commentary on ACT 2022-23 budget announcements

• ACT Budget 2021-22: What’s in it for children and families? Families ACT’s commentary

• Response to ACT Commissioning Roadmap for NGO services in the Community 2021-2023

• Joint response to ACT Government discussion paper: Raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR)

• Joint response to ACT Approach to Commissioning consultation

POLICY REPORTS

• FACT & YCACT Communique: Early impact of COVID-19 on the ACT Youth and Family Sector (2020)

• Parent Engagement in ACT Schools (2017)

• Domestic and Family Violence Briefing Paper (2016)

• Parenting Programs in the ACT (2015)

• Youth Engagement in the ACT (2013)

• Case Management Paper (2013)

• Procurement Paper (2013)

• Engaging Families and Building Home-School Connectedness (2006)

• Review of Family Support Services in the ACT (2004)