Collaboration Resources

Collaboration has become a leading term in contemporary society, with collaborative practice now central to the way we work, deliver services and produce innovations. It has become a favoured approach for addressing complex and intractable problems that characterise our social, economic and physical environments.

However, collaborations are not easy to develop and manage, requiring a distinctive set of leadership and management skills to manage a working environment that draws together the resources of multiple people and organisations. The leadership, relationship and management approaches used in our everyday organisations will not work in efforts that span a number of organisations, disciplines, philosophies and work practices.

People involved in collaboration require a particular skill set and knowledge base that takes into account this new way of working. This knowledge base is not always easy to develop, with most practitioners gaining an understanding of collaboration ‘on the job’. ARACY is implementing programs that aim to help develop that knowledge and provide seed funding for collaborative research programs that work to improve the future for Australia’s children and youth.

Advancing Collaboration Practice
ARACY Research Network Seed Funding program