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Working with the Karen Community-A resource for service providers

2015 – 2022 | HealthWest | West Metro

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

2015 – 2022 | HealthWest | West Metro

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

2015 – 2022 | HealthWest | West Metro

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

2015 – 2022 | HealthWest | West Metro

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

2015 – 2022 | HealthWest | West Metro

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.