The Northern Territory Prevention Alliance (NTPA) was formed in 2019, and has since been remodelled to maximise opportunities for Territory-wide action. It is made up of executive-level representatives from key agencies with responsibilities across the Northern Territory for the provision of primary prevention, safety and wellbeing services to communities, families, children and young people. The Alliance provides a means of engaging government, corporate and non-government sectors in promoting the value of wellbeing and the prevention of child abuse and neglect in a consistent and effective way to the broader community.
Together, we aim to build on strengths, find and fill gaps and choose the right people for the right tasks – through focusing on the following five anchors.
Core focus areas
The following themes have been identified as priorities:
Secretariat functions (undertaken by NAPCAN):
Chair functions (undertaken by Megan Mitchell AM):
Current NTPA members (as at 2024) include:
The Alliance endorses the key prevention and early intervention recommendations from the following documents:
July 2024 Meeting – Online Safety for Children and Young People, and Victoria’s Youth Crime Prevention & Early Intervention Project
February 2024 Meeting – Community-led research with Darwin-region young people in the justice system, and NT Press Club feedback on NT Media Guide
November 2023 Meeting – Australian Child Maltreatment Study (ACMS), and Menzies Centre for Child Development and Education research and linked data sets
June 2023 Meeting – Issues of concern to young people in the Mparntwe/Alice Springs region, including effects of media reporting
February 2023 Meeting – Social Order Response in Alice Springs and Darwin Northern Suburbs, and presentation by Children’s Ground
September 2022 Meeting
May 2022
February 2022
October 2021
May 2021
The NTPA believes that language is important. In particular, community attitudes are impacted by the words and phrases we use, the way we ‘frame’ issues, and how children and young people are portrayed in the media.
This has resulted in the creation of the following guides.
Click on the images below to download copies.
For more information about the NTPA, including applications to join the Alliance, please contact:
Meron Looney
NT Manager NAPCAN
0411 737 630 | PO Box 828 Nightcliff NT 0814
meron.looney@napcan.org.au
Executive Secretariat – NTPA