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Respin Gambling Awareness Speakers Bureau (North East Healthy Communities)
Harm from gambling impacts not only people who gamble but also their loved ones, communities and workplaces. In addition, that harm extends beyond high-risk gamblers – Victorian studies have shown that low and moderate risk gambling accounts for 85% of gambling harm. North East Healthy Communities recognises that people who have overcome the effects of gambling harm have considerable expertise on the issue, which is of value to others. Many of these people want to share their story to lend hope and inspiration to others and bring the often hidden experience of harm from gambling into the open.
A Seat at the Table (HealthWest)
Seat at the Table (SATT) brought young people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds together with mental health service providers in Melbourne’s western suburbs. SATT was designed to explore whether co-design is an appropriate and effective method in health promotion. This was highlighted as important because of the recent trend in using co-design as a model for community engagement, when it is in fact a labour and resource intensive model.
Healthy Well Southwest (Southwest PCP)
A community needs assessment conducted in 2012 identified that children and adults across the south west region of Victoria had poor dietary intakes and physical activity practices within the key settings of; early year’s services, schools, workplaces and community spaces. In response, South West Primary Care Partnership (SW PCP) partners formed place-based working groups and agreed on key risk and protective factors to inform the selection of mutually agreed evidence-based strategies.
Informing Action During The Covid-19 Pandemic – Enliven’s Health Literacy Journey (enliven)
Case Study 2: Identifying opportunity and supporting our community during COVID-19 pandemic. enliven’s expertise in health literacy - Informing action during the COVID-19 pandemic. enliven’s Health Literacy Journey
Campaspe Emergency Food Relief Services During Covid-19: Mobilising Rapid Responses To Inform Community (Campaspe PCP)
As COVID-19 began to impact our local community, the Campaspe PCP responded to a local government request for up to date information about the local emergency food services. The PCP rapidly made contact with all local providers who promptly provided information about service changes and in many cases service closures. A new resource, “Campaspe Emergency Food Relief Services during COVID-19” was developed to reflect these changes. This resource and the Cheap Eats cookbook was distributed to the local community through social and print media, to all local health and community services, and to the broader emergency services network in Campaspe
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VicPCP acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Victoria, their diversity, histories and knowledge and their continuing connections to land and community. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and Elders of past, present and future generations[/col][col size=”4″ screen=”md”][/col][/row]