Media release: Adequate legal assistance funding is vital to improving health and wellbeing outcomes
Health Justice Australia has welcomed last week’s announcement that the Australian Government will provide $3.9 billion in funding to the legal assistance sector through the new National Access to Justice Partnership. While this announcement is an encouraging first step in addressing the chronic underfunding of the sector, there is still much to do to ensure the sustainability of legal assistance services so they can continue to support the health and wellbeing of individuals and families.
Our CEO Sheree Limbrick was on ABC radio recently talking about the role of HJP in responding to domestic and family violence.
Tessa Boyd-Caine spoke with Sisters in Law on 8CCC about the relationship between access to justice and health services.
Tessa Boyd-Caine spoke with Britt Myers and Elizabeth Stary for Done by Law on 3CR Melbourne about health justice partnership, what it is, how it works and the problems it helps to address.
On page 18 of the latest edition of NADA Advocate, our Practice Lead Cathy Bucolo illustrates two case studies from health justice partnerships working in Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) programs.
Our Policy & Advocacy Lead Dr Joyce Chia is in the Power to Persuade blog today analysing the potential of health justice partnerships to strengthen the health system’s capacity for responding to gendered violence.