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Rural change and community wellbeing forum

Brenda Boland Regional Director DHS Grampians Region. Rural change and community wellbeing forum. Achieving through partnerships. Building on the work of Primary Care Partnerships Extending the partnerships Innovative health promotion practice Improved service coordination

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Rural change and community wellbeing forum

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  1. Brenda Boland Regional Director DHS Grampians Region Rural change and community wellbeing forum

  2. Achieving through partnerships Building on the work of Primary Care Partnerships • Extending the partnerships • Innovative health promotion practice • Improved service coordination • Planning for longer term impacts

  3. Building sector and community capacity Mental Health First Aid Up to 1200 people have received training in Mental Health First Aid across Victoria VicHealth Mental Health Promotion short course - 52% were from health/community health sector - 48% were from a range of sectors including housing, education, local government and Justice - participants reported that they gained significant information and skills - 66% reported their intention to incorporate the knowledge gained into practice

  4. Clinical leadership and training Innovative training to drought counsellors and rural service providers • 15 No Bull Therapy workshops • 323 participants 2007 – 08 • Train the Trainer model utilised for sustainability • Cooperative Inquiry Groups • - 100 attendees in 2007 • Extending this model to generalist counsellors in 2009

  5. What have we learned? The enablers • flexibility of funding guidelines • building and extending existing partnership work • the use of adaptive practice and innovative community engagement techniques • a focus on building and sustaining community capacity

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