The evidence is clear that people often experience multiple, intersecting health and legal problems. By contrast, services are designed and funded in a way that treats these clustering problems as discrete and unrelated. As a result, people with complex needs can be poorly served by existing services.
Our role in strategic advocacy is to identify and tackle the structural barriers in policy, funding, and service system design that add to the complexity of issues people face and ultimately undermine the effectiveness of service responses. Our submissions to Government are informed by lessons from health justice partnership and our original research.
2021-22 Budget priorities
- To support the Government’s commitment to Closing the gap, support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community-led models of health justice partnership.
- As part of the Covid-19 recovery plan:
(a) Build the capability for cross-sector collaboration.
(b) Improve cross-sector responses to family violence.
