Help us secure our meeting with Minister Foley by continuing to share our petition! We agree with our fellow petitioner Christine. We will talk with Minister Foley about fast tracking the Victorian response to the Royal Commission recommendation in 2017 for an integrated model of advocacy and support and counselling. And the importance of not wasting time and money on the Victoria's Government's plan to reinvent one from scratch, rather learn from the survivor / family / community-centric integrated models of care already in place.
Including NSW Health's implementation of their framework since 2018, and pilot what's working in NSW, and what's been identified as improvement opportunities, through engagement of co-design and co-implementation with a Victorian community. We'll talk with Minister Foley about all the reasons why we think that community should be the Bayside community.
A total of $49 million over four years was committed to support all victim survivors of family violence and sexual assault in the 2021–22 Victorian State Budget. The myriad of health system entry points for adult survivors and communities impacted by historic institutional child sexual abuse, requires investment in the adoption of best practice, which includes NSW Health's adoption of the principle, of 'no wrong door'. We'll talk with Minister Foley about how important this is to survivors, families and communities impacted by systemic child sexual abuse in the Bayside area of Melbourne.
"A public health model emphasises collaboration and integration as core elements of effective interventions. No single service or service system has the capacity or expertise to respond to the needs of every client.
Principle 6: 'No wrong door' - NSW Health workers will collaborate to support people and their families to access the most appropriate service responses. Everyone in NSW Health is responsible for supporting people and their families who have experienced violence, abuse and neglect.
This means all health services are equipped, both in capability and capacity, to either provide a response or find an appropriate service for a person or their family. It also means that collaborative practice within the NSW Health system and with partner agencies is a priority for NSW Health staff."
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/.../iparvan-framework.pdf
Also learn from New Zealand, the
"whole-system approach adopted in Canterbury focuses on doing more in the community, making best use of specialised and scarce resources, and doing the right thing for the patient regardless of historical health system and funding silos. At its core lies identifying what is best for the patient, with what is best for the system as a balancing focus.
Development of primary healthcare and community services to support people in a community-based setting and provide a point of ongoing continuity.
Freeing up secondary care-based specialist resources to be responsive to episodic events, more complex cases, and the provision of advice and support to primary and community care."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6460205/
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