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Posted: 12 March 2023
Community Connect
Welcome to Community Connect, where we showcase some of our programs and services that are enabling communities to thrive through improved health and wellbeing.
Past newsletters
March 2024
In this edition, we shed some light on programs across our footprint:
- The Intergenerational Program at Lithgow, bringing older people and preschoolers together
- Success among the learners in our Aboriginal Workforce Development Initiative
- Benefits of conversational-style assessments for young people at Bourke
- Capacity-building efforts across our footprint by our Positive Behaviour Support team.
November 2023
In this edition, we shed some light on programs across our footprint:
- Our inclusion as a finalist in the 2023 National Rural and Remote Health Awards
- A renewed focus for headspace Dubbo, with a full house and a new sense of vitality
- Throwing a spotlight on the effectiveness of a coordinated approach to care for our clients
- The benefits of WARATAH for Kids for vulnerable children in the Murrumbidgee.
August 2023
In this edition, we shed some light on programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- A new project in 10 Western NSW communities that is enabling a regional First Nations workforce
- How our early career pathways are supporting developing the rural allied health workforce
- Resources we have developed to improve after hours supports for NDIS participants
- How social prescribing is providing flexible support for clients in the Murrumbidgee
May 2023
In this edition, we showcase some programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- A partnership that is increasing access to allied health support at Coonamble
- A pilot program using a Nurse Practitioner to enhance our youth-focused service delivery at two of our headspace centres
- The progress we have made in developing our Peer Workforce over the past two years
- Free speech pathology assessments that are supporting children in four Western NSW communities
March 2023
In this edition, we showcase some programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- How one client’s heart check-up uncovered something more serious
- High numbers of people using after-hours clinics at Bathurst and Dubbo hospitals instead of the local emergency departments
- Uni students helping address the psychology staff shortages at headspace
- New care finder service launched in the Murrumbidgee
Page last updated: 12 April 2024
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