Is health justice partnership the right approach for me?
Sometimes a formal health justice partnership is the right fit. In other situations, organisations may get better results by strengthening referral pathways, shared learning, co-location or collaborative practice.
The most effective model will depend on factors including:
- The needs of your community
- Existing relationships and partnerships
- Organisational capacity and readiness
- Available resources and funding
- Local opportunities and challenges
There is no single blueprint for health justice partnership. What matters is finding an approach that is responsive to local needs and supports people to access help more easily through services they already trust.
Choosing the best way to work together
If you are exploring how health, legal or community services might work more closely together, our free e-book can help.
The guide outlines a range of collaborative approaches, from networking and referral relationships through to more established health justice partnership models.
It has been designed to support reflection, discussion and informed decision-making about the approach that may be most appropriate for your organisation and community.
Learn from partnerships across Australia
Health justice partnerships are operating in a wide range of settings and communities across Australia.
Exploring existing partnerships can provide insights into how organisations have adapted partnership approaches to local needs, opportunities and priorities.
Practical tools and resources
We translate evidence into practical resources to support partnership development and implementation.
Our Setting up a partnership resource collection brings together guides, frameworks, templates, case studies and tools developed from practice experience and evidence from across Australia and beyond.
Resources include:
- Partnership development tools
- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) templates
- Measurement and evaluation resources
- Advocacy and engagement tools
- Practice examples and case studies
How Health Justice Australia supports partnership practice
Health Justice Australia is a national organisation that connects partners, builds evidence and strengthens capability to support more integrated, person-centred systems.
We work alongside practitioners, service leaders, researchers and policymakers to strengthen collaboration across health, legal and social sectors.
We do this by:
- Connecting evidence, policy and practice
- Developing evidence-informed resources and tools
- Building workforce capability
- Supporting shared learning across sectors
- Convening networks and communities of practice
- Strengthening the conditions for effective partnership
Our role is not to provide direct services, but to help services work better together so people and families can access support earlier, more easily and through services they already trust.
Join a network of practitioners and leaders
Health justice partnership continues to grow because practitioners, services and communities are willing to learn from one another.
Our networks bring together people working across health, legal and social sectors to share practice insights, explore challenges and strengthen collaborative approaches.
Whether you are exploring partnership for the first time or building on existing work, networks can provide opportunities for connection, shared learning and collaboration.
Health Justice Australia’s understanding of the health justice partnership model in Australia and internationally has been invaluable as we set up a new integrated approach. They were also key contributors in our efforts to build effective working relationships with other services and community organisations in Central Australia.
