Activity Long Term Chosen
Goal Category Rationale
The prospection and vision-setting
Setting a
session generates the long term
vision goals below.
Being: Health & Wellbeing:
5.8% of child goals
Becoming: Independence,
personal care, decision-making
and changes: 63.5% of child
Child Goal goals
Belonging: participation in family
and community life, routines:
30.8% of child goals
Summary Overall Child Goal Achieved: 92.3%
Spending quality time as a family
61.5% of all family goals.
Family
Goal Building family relationships
23.1% of all family goals.
Growing family wellbeing
15.4% of all family goals.
Summary Overall Family Goal Achieved: 90.4%
Parents wellbeing
46.7% of all personal goals.
Parents fitness
Personal
40% of all personal goals.
Goal
Parents career and employment
13.3% of all personal goals.
Summary Overall Personal Goal Achieved: 82.2%
Explanation /
and Overall Results
Parents may become
overwhelmed as they learn
about their child diagnosis or
during the early days of the
diagnosis process.
90.9% Becoming: Independence, personal care,
Children goals are placed in the
context of the Early Childhood
curriculum and NDIS outcomes 93.8% Belonging: participation in family and community
framework.
Parents often divide tasks to
get more accomplished with the 90.6% Spending quality time goals achieved [out of Family
result that the family spends quality time goals]
less time together.
Families wanted to focus on
growing specific characteristics
in the relationships between
certain family members, for
instance between a father and
children or between siblings.
Families want to invest in long
term resilience and flourishing;
this sometimes includes getting
organised and planning for
specific activities that grow
wellbeing.
Parents understand that their
stress levels have a negative
impact on their lives and want
to make changes that will last.
Participants chose a range of
physical goals to achieve.
Parents who have had to give
up their work or career goals
get them re-energised.
Short Term Goals Achieved
* Participants who reported that the program helped them
set a vision for their child and family: 88%
* Participants reporting that the program helped them
formulate congruent long and short term goals: 98%.
Participants reported that this was their first experience
of a vision-setting activity and that its creative format
helped them formulate a rich and meaningful
inspirational vision from which they were able to set
goals that they felt committed to.
* Participants reporting that the program taught them to
break down big goals into smaller, achievable steps: 88%
100% Being: Health & Wellbeing goals achieved [out of
Being goals]
decision-making and changes goals achieved [out of
Becoming goals]
life, routines goals achieved [out of Belonging goals]
Increased agency [T-test; t=8.811; df=37;
SE=3.061; p<0.0001]
100% Investing in family relationship building goals
achieved [out of Family relationship building goals]
Fathers participation in Now and Next program: 23%
Fathers participation in alumni conference: 50%
75% Growing family wellbeing goals achieved [out of
Family growing wellbeing goals]
Perception of social support: 92%
Alumni membership: 2 years growth to 217
CALD participation: 48%
90% Personal wellbeing goals achieved [out of Personal
wellbeing goals]
66.7% Personal fitness goals achieved [out of Personal
fitness goals]
100% Career goals achieved [out of Personal career and
employment goals]
6.25% of Now and Next graduates made a career
change and became peer facilitators after its launch.