The Health Planners Toolkit: Module 5 – Community Engagement and Communication
The Health Planners Toolkit of Ontario contains the highly respected Module 5 on Community Engagement and Communication.
Doing it with us not for us – Victoria 2006-09
The Victorian Department of Health website states that the “Doing it with us not for us policy grew from the Victorian Government’s commitment to involving people in decision making about health care services and the need for a strategic policy to guide the process.” This commitment shows in the quality of this policy and the depth of consumer and community involvement in developing it.
Effective Engagement: building relationships with community and other stakeholders
The Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries hosts webpages devoted “Effective Engagement” with access to a series of three practical guidelines to general community engagement.
Framework for assessing the impact of new health initiatives and policies on consumers
The framework is designed to assist consumers and committees involved in consultative and decision-making processes in analysing policies, grant applications and initiatives presented to them for consideration. It has a particular focus on access and disadvantage, setting out a series of steps which can be followed to assess the degree to which a proposal has been designed with the needs of disadvantaged groups and individuals in mind. The framework provides a useful tool for identifying gaps in the development of programs where the needs of disadvantaged groups might not have received due consideration. It is not designed to measure or evaluate the success of a program in its application.
National Consumer and Carer Forum’s Consumer and Carer Participation Policy – A Framework for the Mental Health Sector
The National Consumer and Carer Forum of Australia has produced their Consumer and Carer Participation Policy: A Framework for the Mental Health Sector “as a guide to be used by all participants involved in mental health within the public, private and non-government sectors for the development and / or implementation of consumer and carer participation policies.”
Improving Health Services Through Consumer Participation – A Resource Guide For Organisations
Improving Health Services Through Consumer Participation – A Resource Guide For Organisations is a thorough and practical set of resources produced in 2000 by the Department of Public Health, Flinders University, and the South Australian Community Health Research Unit.
THE KIT: A guide to the advocacy we choose to do
This large and very comprehensive resource (3 MB and 275 pages) was developed to increase advocacy knowledge and skills in the mental health community sector. All health consumers and consumer organisations interested in advocacy will find this to be a valuable resource.
The little purple book of Community Rep-ing
A classic resource on community participation developed directly from the experiences of community representatives.