Community Participation What does tomorrow look like?
The Health Issues Centre Conference 2013 Damian Ferrie CEO Inner South Community Health Service
Outline 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Approach Purpose The Future What is Community Participation? Some examples
Purpose to ensure that we are shaped by and responsive to the needs of its clients, carers and community
Future • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u fmXsFPLZYY • The power of Information • The promotion of wellbeing • Rights and care plans • Commitment to co governance • Communiticating https://vimeo.com/73672375
What ? • Internally - partnering of community members in service planning, delivery and evaluation; • Externally - when the community members work with us to address issues affecting the wellbeing of the population.
How? Vision, Mission & Values Plan it Report on it
Working together – across the organisation • Community Participation Committee
Working together – across the organisation • Recruitment
Working together – within program areas • Program planning days
Working together – within program areas • Our Rainbow Place & Indigenous Access
Recognition of participation • Having a commitment to paying – development of Guidelines for Payment and Reimbursement Activity Assisting on interview panels – half day Assisting on interview panels – full day Participating on committees / working groups Participating in focus groups / workshops / research – brief sessions
ISCHS Minimum Payment $50 sitting fee $70 sitting fee $30 sitting fee $30 sitting fee
Participating in focus groups / workshops / research – extended sessions
$60 per day/session
Delivering a presentation – brief session Delivering a presentation – extended session Attending a conference / presentation on ISCHS’s behalf
$40 sitting fee $70 sitting fee Cost reimbursement
Peer educators Reviewing documents Participating as a panel member at a conference
$40 per session / sitting fee Cost reimbursement $30 sitting fee
Undertaking training and development to support the work of ISCHS
Cost reimbursement
Working together – within program areas & one to one • Partners for Better Health
REFERENCES • • • • • • •
Victorian Health Priorities Framework 2012-2022: Metropolitan Health Plan Department of Health’s ‘Doing it with us not for us’ Policy 2006 Department of Health’s ‘Doing it with us not for us’ Strategic Directions 2010-2013 National Safety and Quality Health Services Standards – particularly Standard 2: Partnering with consumers Integrated Health Promotion: A practice guide for service providers 2003 Victorian Clinical Governance Policy Framework: A guidebook Department of Health’s Community Engagement: an evidence Summary 2012 (http://docs.health.vic.gov.au/docs/doc/Community-engagement:an-evidence-summary)
• www.twyfords.com.au The Power of 'Co' The Smart Leaders' Guide to Collaborative Governance
