We worked with the Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity and Mental Health on this policy brief, using case studies of HJPs based in Child and Family Hubs to learn about what it takes to create a successful partnership: shared purpose, collaborative processes, and investment in relationships.
Health justice partnership offers a promising approach to incorporate legal assistance into early support for children and their families in the contexts where child protection concerns are likely to arise.
What are the opportunities for early support to tackle the intersecting health, legal and other problems that often drive notifications to the child protection system?
We encourage the NSW Government to explore the practice and potential of health justice partnership as part of the early support services provided to children and their families.
We made a submission to the online consultation run by the Department of Social Service on implementing the successor plan to the 2009-2020 national framework for protecting Australia’s children.
Read about what sustains health justice partnership from client, health and legal staff perspectives. The Integrated Services for Survivor Advocacy partnership between South-East Monash Legal Service and the South Eastern Centre Against Sexual Assault and Family Violence has been running for over 28 years and is one of the longest running health justice partnerships in Australia.
Let's Talk Health Justice
with Assunta Morrone, Strengthening Hospital Responses to Family Violence Project Lead at Western Health, Victoria
Assunta has been working in multicultural, women’s and youth sectors for the past twenty years, and has a passion for social justice and working to address the intersectional barriers that make and keep people unwell. Assunta speaks with us about authentically engaging people with lived experience, shares her top tips for lawyers starting out in health justice partnership in hospital settings and much more.
Our published research
Hiscock, H., Kabir, A., Honisett, S., Morris, T., Constable, L., Forell, S., … & Jorm, A. (2024). Identifying Service, Research and Policy priorities for preventing the impacts of family adversity on children’s mental health: An Australian national resource allocation study with professional and lived experience experts. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 48(5), 100184.
Our published research
Hall, T., Goldfeld, S., Loftus, H., Honisett, S., Liu, H., De Souza, D., … & Hiscock, H. (2022). Integrated Child and Family Hub models for detecting and responding to family adversity: protocol for a mixed-methods evaluation in two sites. BMJ open, 12(5), e055431.
Forell, S., & Loveday, S. (2024). Health Justice Partnership as early intervention in child and family service settings (Version 2). Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.25374/MCRI.27043363.v2
