Presentation to HW membership Gail ODonnell Executive Officer March - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Presentation to HW membership

Gail O’Donnell Executive Officer

March 2018

• HealthWest Partnership covers the 5 Local Government Areas in

Melbourne’s west with a population of over 800,000

• Currently 54 members - still growing and

diversifying and includes many

• rganisations that are working in the

social determinants of health space

• Attracting funding from other sources
• Small staff group - currently 8

Partnerships & collaboration

Pathways for Children with Developmental Delays

We are partnering with early childhood public service providers in Melbourne’s west to make services and supports easier to access and use for families and workers.

• A Referral Decision Aid was developed to clarify eligibility and

referrals.

• PCDD Alliance collectively monitoring and responding to systems

changes and challenges.

• Next steps: Develop regional discussion paper about identifying

& supporting vulnerable families to access & use services, based

• n review of literature and scoping of local work.

Community Leadership in the West – connectwest launch

• Network for community groups, post-program space and

community leadership opportunities

• Engagement animation – user-friendly resource now freely available
• n the HealthWest website

Partnerships & collaboration

Working Together with Men

• Innovative violence prevention

project:

• community mobilisation and

men’s engagement

• place-based; partnership &

co-design

• expert-guidance & advice
• resourcing & tailored

support

Partnership & collaboration

Working Together with Men (cont.)

• Can get men ‘in the door’
• Can build men’s non-violent

and gender-equitable understandings

• Can foster sustained groups

and networks of male advocates

• Can build men’s skills and

capacity in violence prevention

Partnership & collaboration

Building evidence & sharing knowledge

Identifying & Responding to Family Violence

The health system is a key point of contact for both identifying family violence, and for intervening to support women and children to reduce their risk of violence.

• Launched Guidelines for Engaging People Who Cause Family

Violence Harm to guide practice responding to perpetrators.

• Evaluation of the Identifying & Responding to Family

Violence North West regional project.

• Active participant in the Western Integrated Family Violence

Committee (WIFVC).

The Health Literacy Initiative

• Partnership with Inner North West PCP
• Health Literacy Alliance
• Health Literacy Responsiveness

Mentoring Project

• Development of a Consumer Led

Health Literacy Assessment Tool

Building evidence & sharing knowledge

Other achievements

• Development of Vic PCP Online Health Literacy Course
• Published journal article in the Australian Health Review

Building evidence & sharing knowledge

Seat at the Table

• A youth refugee and asylum seekers mental

health project

• Co-design process
• young people together with mental

health service providers co-created engagement ideas to trial

Advocacy & support

Workforce Mutuality

• Developing a world first set of Standards for

Workforce Mutuality

• Partnering with peak organisations across the

diversity, health and corporate sectors

• Developing a pilot phase implementation of the

Standards for the HealthWest membership

• Promoting the principles of Workforce Mutuality

through promotional video and upcoming conference

Advocacy & support

Position Statements

• Health Literacy
• Community Participation in Health
• Gender Equity & Prevention of Violence

Against Women

• Health and Wellbeing of Refugees and

Asylum Seekers

• Access to needles, syringes and opioid

replacement therapies

• Workforce Mutuality

Advocacy & support

Thank you & questions