We’re building a Queensland where no one falls through the cracks, where wellbeing is a community responsibility, and where health care includes human connection.

This is not a new bureaucracy.

This is not more paperwork.

This is Queenslanders helping Queenslanders, with the right support around them.

It’s common-sense, cost-effective and community-powered.

 

What is The Queensland Way?

The Queensland Way is a community-led social prescribing model that connects people with local support: community groups, sport clubs, mentoring, arts, volunteering, cultural groups, men’s sheds and more. It is a practical, common-sense way to improve wellbeing before people fall into crisis.

In Queensland, we’ve always known that health is more than hospitals and wellbeing is more than waiting rooms. It is more than just the absence of disease – it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

It’s about connection. It’s about purpose. It’s about community.

When Queenslanders are doing it tough, we don’t wait for governments to solve it,we lean in, we show up, and we look out for each other.

That’s the Queensland Way.

 

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Getting the Right Support Around - 2026 State Budget

Neighbourhood community centres are the backbone of doing community The Queensland Way.  

We are calling on the Queensland Government to support this by:

  • Maintaining funding for social prescribing Link Workers in all 13 Centres currently delivering social prescribing
  • Providing a Community Connect Worker in every neighbourhood centre across Queensland.

You can take action to show the Premier and the Treasurer that this support is important to unlock the connections in your community:

  • Join the campaign by signing up here.
  • Send a postcard to Premier Crisafulli and Treasurer Janetski - you can get one of these from your local neighbourhood centre.
  • Get a pack of Postcards to share with a group you are part of: e.g. your community group, church, union, sporting club, workplace.

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Social Prescribing: It’s The Queensland Way.

The Queensland Way is a community-led social prescribing model that connects people with local support: community groups, sport clubs, mentoring, arts, volunteering, cultural groups, men’s sheds and more.

It is a practical, common-sense way to improve wellbeing before people fall into crisis.

The Problem

Queenslanders are doing it tough:

  • 1 in 3 report feeling lonely or isolated.
  • GP clinics are overloaded with social problems they can’t solve alone.
  • Emergency departments face repeated avoidable presentations.
  • Young people at risk of disengagement or early offending lack support pathways.
  • Regional Queensland has some of the highest suicide rates in the country.

The Solution

Social prescribing tackles the underlying causes of poor health and disengagement, by reconnecting people to community. Link Workers partner with GPs, hospitals, schools, youth services and community organisations to connect people to practical supports that improve mental, physical and social wellbeing.

  • Proven to reduce hospital strain
  • Supports existing care plans
  • Builds community resilience and safety
  • Boosts local business participation
  • Saves public money through prevention

Why Queensland?

When floods hit. When cyclones strike. When fires tear through our towns, Queenslanders don’t wait. We help each other. That spirit of connection isn’t just emergency resilience, it should be a way of life.

This is The Queensland Way: strong, practical, local.

We already have the community infrastructure, churches, sports clubs, cultural groups, neighbourhood centres, RSLs, Rotary, YMCAs, youth workers, community hubs. We just need to connect it properly.

Proof It Works

  • ‘Ways to Wellness’, the flagship program at Mount Gravatt Community Centre has connected hundreds of people with more than 1500 local groups, activities, meaningful hobbies and wellbeing support services such as exercise classes, music groups, craft workshops, and seniors’ activities.
  • UK studies show 28% reduction in GP visits through social prescribing.
  • Community-based programs reduce youth reoffending by up to 40%.
  • Every $1 invested in social prescribing returns $2.30 in savings. In pounds Social Prescribing Network / University of Westminster (2017) – “Making Sense of Social Prescribing”

Our Vision

A Queensland where:

  • Health includes connection
  • Every GP has a social prescribing pathway
  • Every town has a Link Worker
  • No one falls through the cracks
  • Communities lead the way — because that’s The Queensland Way

Call to Action

Join the movement to make social prescribing part of Queensland’s health and community system.

Let’s keep Queensland connected — in the good times, not just the bad.

The Queensland Way – Healthy. Connected. Thriving. Together.