The Learning System grants, funded by DHHS, and administered by OPEN, CFECFW, are seed grants provided to sector organisations to deliver projects which build their capacity and develop, apply and share evidence and transferable learning.
The Learning Systems Grants are a key support to progress the recommendations of the Roadmap to Reform through strengthening the sector’s use and development of evidence and fostering a sector wide learning system where outcomes are measured and children and family services are continually evaluated, refined and improved, translated and shared to build the knowledge base across the sector.
The Learning System Grants commenced in 2017, and are now in their third year, with 28 projects funded to date. Projects funded in the first and second years are almost complete. An Outcomes report will be prepared in 2021 about their achievements.
Projects funded this year, have been recently announced and are about to commence. Our third year of projects are diverse and include projects which focus on participatory approaches to capture client voice, particularly children and young people and those which focus on client-centred approaches to design innovative interventions and develop/implement outcomes and practice frameworks.
All the projects will be supported over the next 12 months by the Outcomes, Practice and Evidence Network (OPEN).
In the following section, we introduce four of our new LSG projects which aim to improve practice at the program level by designing or testing a new idea or adding a new element to an existing intervention. Congratulations to:
Congratulations once again to our recipients and we look forward to hearing of their progress and lessons as they deliver their projects. We will report these through the OPEN News as work progresses.
Stay tuned!