What is hum working to create?

In 2016-17, Hands Up Mallee held conversations with over 1,600 people from across our community to learn about our region's passions, aspirations, concerns and ideas to determine our ‘common agenda’ for change.

To enable to conversations with our community, we developed the Community Conversations Kit and the Community Conversation Guide.

From these conversations we reached a community aspiration of ‘a connected community, where families matter, and children thrive.’

The conversations continues

Hands Up Mallee recognised it needed to hear specifically from the children in our community. In 2019, Hands Up Mallee alongside the Mildura Rural City Council, early years’ educators and partners in the space gathered the voices of children in our community– they told us what they did and didn’t like, and what they wanted for their future. It helped inform the Municipal Early Years Plan and to further Hands Up Mallee’s work. After the development of Hands Up Mallee’s Measurement, Evaluation and Learning Framework, further community conversations were undertaken with families and children to form the 0-8 Nested MEL Framework, and then with local youth to create the 9-18 Nested MEL.

Now it’s about making the change

The conversations and depth of work with our community continues today in the work we do and in the governance of Hands Up Mallee. You can read more about our work, our community-led governance and leadership, and our ways of working differently here.

HUM’s OVERARCHING Theory OF CHANGE