This two-year project took a deep dive into DEX data to uncover and celebrate the real outcomes of early intervention and prevention services.
Partnering with For Purpose Evaluations, this award-winning outcomes measurement project featured involvement from 24 diverse services across NSW.
Together, we created a Communicating Outcomes Toolkit to help organisations use DEX data to tell clear, compelling stories of change. The toolkit includes three easy-to-use resources – start with Step 1 and work your way through.
Step 1: Amplify Our Sector – Communicating Outcomes Toolkit
Step 2: Amplify Our Sector – Reporting Worksheet
Step 3: Amplify Our Sector – Reporting Template and Amplify Our Sector – Poster Template
Practice governance is the way an organisation supports and improves the quality of practice, aiming for better outcomes for people and their communities. Our goal was to design a guide specifically for community-based child and family services that could work for organisations of all sizes.
Practice governance is the way an organisation supports and improves the quality of practice, aiming for better outcomes for people and their communities. Our goal was to design a guide specifically for community-based child and family services that could work for organisations of all sizes.
Twelve early intervention and prevention service providers along with the Parenting Research Centre and ACWA joined forces to create a uniquely designed framework for our sector.
The Guide represents our sector’s genuine commitment to continuous improvement and showcasing the positive impact of our work.
Check out the Practice Governance Framework here.
With funding from DCJ, Fams and the Parenting Research Centre (PRC)worked together to train almost 180 NSW playgroup practitioners in smalltalk.
smalltalk is a set of evidence-based parenting strategies that parents can use to enhance the home learning environment for their children from birth to school age.
smalltalk aims to increase parent’s confidence to do the things we know can have a positive impact on their child’s learning. It is about using everyday opportunities and the activities that many parents already do in the home to enhance their children’s learning and development. smalltalk also includes ideas on how parents can look after themselves and helps build links with their community and local services.
In September 2025, hundreds from across the early intervention and prevention sector joined for a jam-packed day of connection and collaboration.
The year’s theme – Safe | Strong | Supportive – built on our shared vision: that every child grows up in a safe home, within a strong family, and surrounded by a supportive community. The day was a celebration of our sector’s commitment to making that vision real.
Check out the photo gallery: View the highlights here
In 2024, Fams hosted our Creativity Lab, bringing together 40 leaders across the sector for an immersive day of innovative thinking, identifying fresh ideas, creative brainstorming, and fun. .
Joined by the Superorganism Collective, NatureFix and Australians for Mental Health, we drew inspiration from diverse fields like mental health, arts, community development, and nature, to ensure future service design stands out with fresh ideas.
Our exciting one-day conference was held on Thursday Aug 17, 2023.
Our expert speakers challenged and inspired our delegates to think differently. We explored ways to reimagine our sector, amplify client voices in evaluation, widen the lens of child protection and futureproof the early intervention and prevention NGO sector.
Fams reinvested all registration fees to support our rural, remote and regional colleagues to attend by offering a scholarship. NFP organisations from eligible locations were able to apply for up to $500 towards travel and accommodation.