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Working with the Karen Community-A resource for service providers
The Karen people are an ethnic minority group who originate from Burma and arrived in Australia as refugees, and whose community is continuing to grow in Victoria. The aim of this report is to support service providers to engage with the community by increasing an understanding of who the Karen people are and their experiences of settlement in Australia.
Meaningful Engagement for Social Inclusion: A Practice Guide
This is a guide on how to create or improve your social inclusion work. It provides a compass to useful documents, resources, frameworks and tools to improve your practice, whether that is externally with individuals and communities or internally within your organisation.
This document emerged from work of the Western Region Primary Prevention Taskforce (HealthWest Partnership) and the Inner North West Primary Care Partnership’s (INWPCP’s) Prevention Alliance. Preliminary mapping of prevention priorities in Melbourne’s western and inner northern suburbs revealed that social inclusion (as a determinant of mental health) was an area of common interest for partners and their communities.
The importance of social inclusion
An animation to help with social inclusion messaging. What is it? Why is it important? How does it impact health? Use this animation when you’re working with different stakeholders, community members or even within your own organisation.
Stories of Participation: Partnering With the Community to Improve Health and Wellbeing
Community participation in health leads to better services, better access and a better experience for everyone. This video explores the experiences of community members who partner with organisations to improve health and wellbeing. Community participants discuss what it’s like to partner with an organisation and give advice to community members and organisations alike.
Video developed by HealthWest with the assistance of members of the Community Engagement in the West Network.
Music credit: Dreamer Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Place-based initiatives in the west: highlighting promising practice
Place-based initiatives aim to improve social, cultural, economic and/or physical environment factors, in order to improve health outcomes. They seek to reduce the disparity in health and mental wellbeing between people living in a defined area.
This resource has been designed to allow people to look at common themes and learnings experienced when implementing a place-based project. Themes include the current policy environment, applying a place-based structure, engaging with the community, evaluation, and sustainability.
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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]