HIV & Related Programs Health Promotion Forum 2010

1. HIV & Related Programs Health Promotion Forum2010 Mercure Hotel, Sydney Monday 27 July

2. Welcome to Country Allen Madden Metropolitan Aboriginal Lands Council

3. Opening Remarks Julia Purchas Chair HARP Health Promotion Managers and Seniors Network

4. Finding Solutions, Defining Successes

5. Aim: To strengthen and invigorate HIV and related health promotion practice statewide Objectives: To examine some contemporary health promotion theories, principles and perspectives To critically reflect on health promotion activity in the sector To foster opportunities for professional networking and collaboration.

6. Warm Up Activity Bronwyn Leece Lynne Martin

7. Policy Update Darryl O’Donnell Acting Associate Director AIDS/Infectious Diseases Branch, NSW Health

8. From Here to There: Plotting a course and getting results during uncertainty Darryl O’Donnell A/Associate Director, AIDS/Infectious Diseases Branch NSW Department of Health 26 July 2010

9. Overview • Thank you for the invitation. Commitment to this Forum • National Health & Hospitals Network Reform: Change, worries, process • Aspirations for the coming 12 months: A checklist for next time • Evaluation of the Strategies: An imperative to inform and influence • … express needs and aspirations • … contribute analyses and directions • … act collectively and distinctively. • But first, introducing…

10. National Health and Hospital Network Reform • National Health and Hospitals Network Agreement (COAG Agreement) – authoritative source; non-negotiables • Financial sustainability, role delineation, local decision-making • Key elements • Public hospitals and Local Hospital Networks (LHNs) • Primary Health Care Organisations (PHCOs) • Financing, performance accountability, national governance and implementation • Transfer, further consideration, not for transfer • It matters. Guidance: COAG Agreement; DG’s listening tour and blog; NSW Health Reform microsite; local and AIDB documents.

11. NHHN Reform – Population Health • Not for transfer: “Specialist STI services and general sexual health services” • COAG Meeting – 10 December 2010 • Decision to transfer or reform certain other programs • Population Health-level processes • NHHR Primary Health Care Transition Group • Population Health Executive • AIDB-level and HARPM • Population health infrastructure / suprastructure

12. NHHN Reform – Known Worries • Responding to known worries • 1. Job security • 2. Loss of the ‘local’ • 3. Corporate raiders • Change will come. Extended transitional states. • Some shared practical tasks: • Know the fundamentals • Think about the unique and essential elements of the program • Take opportunities to be informed, participate and influence.

13. Aspirations - Overview • A partnership-building vision for the coming twelve months: • Underpinning relationships • Listening and understanding • Shared vision • Supporting action • A multi-strategic approach • AIDB’s performance benchmarks

14. 1 – Underpinning relationships • A diversification and strengthening of relationships between the Department and our workforce: • More diverse, frequent and deeper relationships, across more AIDB officers, with a greater breadth of the health promotion workforce • Recognising, differentiating and respecting roles – valuing functional specialisation • Right conversations in the right place, with the right people at the right time • Relationships are routine, purposeful and appropriate.

15. 2 – Listening and understanding • A better understanding of the workforce, it’s issues and priorities: • Who and where the workforce is • Concerns, aspirations, insights, intelligence • Current and future strategic priorities of the workforce • Range and nature of projects being undertaken, including examples of good practice • Policy, operational, workforce and infrastructural barriers to better practice

16. 3 – Shared vision • A shared vision for health promotion directions and priorities: • Action to facilitate a shared vision for health promotion • Recognition and valuing of program foundations and principles • An orientation to purpose, priority populations, and population-level outcomes • Clear roles and responsibilities, and agreed accountabilities in all parts of the program • Agreed milestones and targets, appropriate measurement of our progress and consequent adjustment of our settings

17. 4 – Supporting action • Action to enable and strengthen the achievement of goals, including supporting infrastructure: • Understanding and meeting workforce development needs • Multi-level mechanisms for planning, coordination and support are operating effectively • A sufficiency and efficiency of resources is available • Resources are organised to achieve population-level goals • Diverse research needs are identified and actioned • A multi-level evaluation strategy is planned and actioned

18. 5 – A multi-strategic approach • A visible multi-strategic approach to achieve program outcomes • AIDB offers leadership, is a partner to and participates in the implementation of these strategies, with its workforce • Local, regional, state in balance • Health promoting – comprehensively and unapologetically Ottawa Charter • Systems-oriented – Reforming health and other services • Results-oriented; outputs- and outcomes-focused, including health literacy and ‘intermediate outcomes’ • Population health – population-focused, and concerned with improving health equity

19. Aspirations - Getting there • Your ideas? Your agenda? • Meeting locally • Existing mechanisms • HARPM Network • SHEO/M Network • CAS Health Promotion Sub-Committee • Additional mechanisms? Your guidance. • Evaluation of the NSW Strategies….

20. Evaluation of the NSW Strategies • NSW HIV, STI and Hepatitis C Strategies 2006-2010 and supporting Implementation Plan for Aboriginal People • Independent. Tender being finalised. • Objectives: • Assess process, impact and outcomes • Recommendations to strengthen response • Strategic goals, objectives and targets • Principles, priority populations, workforce, resources, partnership • Implementation and emerging issues.

21. Evaluation – Influencing future action • Full consultation – formal and informal. More soon. • Tomorrow – an interactive workshop: • Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats • Success factors • Problem-solving • Informing the Evaluation • Influencing future directions • Questions?

22. Questions… Discussion…

23. Keynote Address Cecelia Gore Director, Education & Community Services Family Planning Queensland

24. Not cause and effect – but create and engage Cecelia Gore HARP Forum July 2010

25. Will you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll

26. The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are absolutely sure of themselves, while wiser people are full of doubts. George Bernard Shaw

27. Metaphor?

28. Sexual pleasure contributes to happiness and well-being

31. One genius of the system we live under is that the strategies it requires to survive it from day to day are exactly the opposite of what is required to change it.

32. gobbledegook Sexual health promotion should be interactive. The most effective sexual health promotion programs are those that are developed in partnership with target populations or a range of key informants, through a process of community development and personal empowerment. Such a process is grounded in the sexual health needs, wants and motivations of target populations and communities, as well as recognising cultural norms, unique characteristics, specific attributes, existing knowledge, skills, abilities and aspirations.

34. Health Promotion Changes in organisations and the creation of health supportive organisational practices Change in communities and community action for health Use of communication strategies for change to promote health Health Behaviour and Health behaviour change focussed on the individual

35. Prevention Science Identifies what prevents poor health Risk Factors Protective factors Social Ecology Social Injustice Structural Inequality Narrower Wider

36. Social determinants • Non-discriminatory social & cultural attitudes • Social inequalities • Provision of universal sexuality education • Access to safe accessible services

38. Talking Better Health - Commonwealth of Australia (1994) • The groups of people who control the language, control the ways the rest of us view and see the world • Education is always political, it is never neutral • The people who define the problem control the range of solutions • Sharing individual experiences is the starting point for identifying issues and concerns • People’s actions are a valuable resource

40. Sexual rights • Negative • Freedom from STI/HIV • Freedom from sexual violence • Positive • the right to sexual pleasure and satisfaction

41. A new set of goals A model to • reduce sexual risk behaviour and • increase the quality of sexual experience (to help young people have the kinds of sexual experience they would like to have and to avoid those they don’t want to have)

42. Skill development • Identify more clearly what they want to do and not do sexually with different people and in different situations • Improve their skills to communicate to their partner what they want to do and not do sexually • Improve their skills to please their partner

43. Community action scale Acting ON a community Acting FOR THE GOOD OF a community Acting ON BEHALF OF a community Acting WITH a community Acting AS a community Brown 1995

44. Techniques • Story telling • Critical thinking • Appreciative inquiry • Social action • Community mobilisation Purpose = transformativefrom passive recipient to active participant

45. Outcomes of effective engagement • Health literacy • access information • recognise cues to action • access care and support • navigate institutions • advocate on their own behalf • Non-service linked action (and activism) • Complaints processes • Problem solving capacity

46. Problem solving outcomes…..

47. Success measures • Increased capacity for action • Whose action? • Whose voices?

50. Questions… Discussion…