Footprints Community engaged Beacon Strategies to provide external support with their latest strategic planning process. Our approach captured internal and external stakeholder perspectives, together with market research and sector trends, preparing organisational leaders to think strategically and plan for the future.

Act for Kids engaged Beacon Strategies to support a review and refresh of the organisation’s purpose and mission to ensure it aligned with the perspectives of various stakeholders, reflected the services and impact of the organisation, and offered a more positive and aspirational focus.

Beacon Strategies partnered with StandBy to reset their strategic direction in response to changes in StandBy’s external operating environment. Beacon Strategies undertook a tailored strategic planning approach that aligned with StandBy’s organisational values.

In July 2020, we closed off a service delivery project with our partners Children’s Health Queensland. Within this project we were engaged to support the transition from the development of a draft Child Protection Capability Framework to the development of contemporary resources. This project page outlines our approach to service design planning and implementation and how our involvement informed statewide implementation practices for the Child Protection Capability Framework.

The project involves the development, testing and evaluation of a multi-modal place-based model of support for individuals caring for people experiencing a suicidal crisis. The program was part of the broader Suicide Prevention in Health Services Initiative which aimed to identify and translate the evidence base for suicide prevention in the health service delivery context.

Beacon Strategies supported Relationships Australia Queensland to plan and deliver community education as part of the Senior Financial Protection Service. As a result of COVID-19, the program involved primarily digital engagement such as videos, webinars, online resources and email marketing to help connect with older people and their communities and raise awareness around recognising and responding to financial elder abuse.