The Village Hive is built on a three-tiered, upstream model of social protection that untangles the complex, interwoven dimensions of poverty. It prioritises Universal Prevention and Early Intervention to ultimately prevent people from falling into crisis and therefore reduces the demand for costly crisis services.
These are services available to all members of the community. They optimise well-being, raise the standard of living, and create safe and healthy environments for the whole village.
Village Hive universal services are focused on public education and public health care, which includes strengthening village health clinics, public schools, teacher training colleges and establishing quality child care.
These services are targeted to support children, youth and families where vulnerability or special needs have been identified. Early identification of the need for additional support de-escalates risks and prevents people from falling into crisis.
The Village Hive’s early intervention services reduce risk by ensuring basic needs are met, including providing access to education, quality nutrition, child care, ID documentation, health care support, and safe housing. Once immediate basic needs are met through the provision of support payments, families are empowered to achieve financial self-reliance and resilience to safeguard against future risks; these programs and services include financial literacy, vocational training, and income generation assistance.
These services are specialised, intensive services targeted at children, youth and families in crisis who are experiencing or have experienced harm. Crisis services aim to minimise the long-term impacts of crises and subsequent trauma.
The Village Hive crisis services include child protection with a focus on safety planning and cultivation of strong family support networks, an emergency hotline, counselling, crisis accommodation, kinship care, care leaver support groups, family reintegration, addiction support groups, and disaster relief.
