At the moment, 30 per cent of our children are falling through.

They are failing to meet development milestones like required health checks, language and cognitive skills benchmarks and have the right emotional maturity levels by the expected age.

The results come from last year's The State of Launceston's Children report and are the inspiration behind a new project.

Every Child Succeeds is the brainchild of Anglicare Tasmania, but children and parents are the ones leading it.

Anglicare Children, Families and Community Services state manager Paul Mallett said the project would be a way for the organisation to find out what services and communities were lacking and improve that.

"What we are trying to do is map where all the services sit within this continuum and identify the gaps," Mr Mallett said.

"We're trying to make closer connections and ensure no one can fall through.

"If we see a slight change so that more kids are turning up to school, less are turning up hungry and more are reaching their milestones, we're on the right path."

Six northern suburbs parent committees have been set up to generate ideas on how we can better help children reach their full potential. A common issue that has been raised is that more needs to be done to create safer communities.

Parents have raised the idea of having street parties so that people can get to know each other better and have also called for more youth support workers in schools.

Mr Mallett said service providers would listen to what parents wanted and try to establish services to suit.

An online platform called Made Open has been set up as part of the project, as a way for people to put forward ideas.

Children and schools have a big role to play through the Every Child Succeeds' Speak Up Challenge.

The challenge, which will run until September 25, encourages children to put forward ideas of what they would like to see in their communities and issues they have.

"It's inviting people to identify their dreams and share them with someone and for us as adults to see what we can do about making some of these dreams come true," Mr Mallett said.

"One of the entries that came in the other day was a kid who just wanted a footpath near his house."

Key ideas from the Speak Up Challenge will be announced on October 13, as part of Anti Poverty Week. Anglicare hopes to have all community ideas in from the Made Open platform by mid October, before it begins funding initiatives.

It will provide $700,000 funding a year, over the next four, to the project and will also rely on crowd funding and philanthropic support.

One of the first initiatives to be rolled out through the project is an online interactive game called Creature Quest.

The game has been developed by Griffith University and will be used to monitor children's emotional and intellectual capabilities.

Mr Mallett said it was important to monitor improvements when $700,000 a year was being put into the project.

Anglicare's Children and Community programs co-ordinator Sharon Dutton said the project was also about trying to collaborate what services were doing.

"Part of joining up is services don't have to work any harder," she said.

"It's more about working smarter and figuring out how can they partner with other agencies and duplicate things."

Mr Mallett said it had taken generations to get to the point we are today, so it "will probably take a generation or two to shift the results".

To contribute ideas to the Every Child Succeeds project visit tasmania.madeopen.com.au or visit the Made Open Tasmania Facebook page.

Key Elements of the Every Child Succeeds project

● The aim of the project is to create change in our community so all children succeed, are healthy, feel loved, safe and have material basics. It is also about building community resilience and getting Launceston recognised as a child-friendly city.

● $700,000 a year, from January 1, will be spent rolling out the project.

● Children and their parents are the ones calling the shots on what happens. Service providers will then create framework around the ideas and suggestions.

● The project idea follows The State of Launceston’s Children Report 2014. Another report will be completed in 2018.

● An interactive online game called Creature Quest has been developed to monitor r children’s emotional intelligence progress as part of the project.

SARAH Coker believes the Every Child Succeeds project will be a success because parents are getting to have their say.

The Ravenswood mum is one of a handful of parents on the Every Child Succeeds Ravenswood committee.

Similar committees have been formed in other northern suburb communities to come up with ideas of how to lift the bar on our children's achievement.

Ms Cocker said it was nice parents were being included in the project as more people would then benefit from it.

"If it's an idea or something you have suggested and then something is put in place, you are more likely to involved in those services," Ms Coker said.

Ms Coker said the Ravenswood committee had circulated a survey asking for community input and held meetings every fortnight to discuss ideas.

"One of the big things is safety," she said.

"That's from feeling safe walking down the street, to having a safe place to take the kids.

"The only park we've got is the one behind here (the Ravenswood Family and Child Centre) which isn't very kid friendly because it's got big, high steps."

Ms Coker said having another play area for smaller children would be a great thing for the community.

She said it was also important that services worked together to help children succeed.

Ms Coker's daughter Emily was born at 26 weeks and weighed only 570 grams.

She said when Emily was born, doctors included her in discussions.

"They asked questions about what I think she needed," Ms Coker said.

"We need that kind of approach to carry on, because once they get older, it's not so much of a combined approach any more.

"You're often told, rather than asked, what will happen."

Community parent committees have also been formed in Beaconsfield, George Town, Waverley/St Leonards, Invermay/Mowbray, and Mayfield/Rocherlea/Lilydale