An overview of the most common ways we see services coming together – including networking, cooperation, coordination and partnership. This tool will help you identify which method of working together is best for your context.
This toolkit is designed to help new health justice partnerships get started and existing partnerships either document or review the way in which they work together.
When looking to build a health justice partnership, it’s important to take the time to learn about the legal assistance sector and which legal services are available for the patients / clients your service supports. This resource outlines community-based legal services in states and territories across Australia.
This Legal Health Check is designed to help health, social and community service practitioners identify legal issues that can worry people, and where a community lawyer may be able to help.
Health justice partnership practitioners are putting partnership principles into practice in a range of different ways when talking about information sharing and effective collaboration. This resource contains some of their practical insights.
Secondary consultation is communication and information sharing to support mutual patients and clients. Practitioners have identified this as a valuable activity of partnership.
Building blocks for health justice partnership
At Health Justice Australia a common question we encounter is, ‘I want to start a health justice partnership (HJP), but where do I begin?’ This resource is for anyone looking to start an HJP with strong foundations.
Building Blocks will help you think about:
- Investigating needs and gaps
- Identifying what you’ll do together
- Agreeing on how you’ll work together
- Learning and evolving
Let's Talk Health Justice
with Marika Manioudakis, Director of Family Violence Initiatives and Principal of Integrated Practice at Eastern Community Legal Centre
In this episode Marika shares insights gained from her wealth of experience working in health justice partnership, including what client-centred practice and trauma informed care mean for the team at ECLC, why working in partnership can achieve outcomes for clients that services can’t achieve alone, and what her one piece of advice is for those working in partnership.
Key messages articulating the evidence so you can communicate the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of health justice partnership to funders and policymakers. Adapt these for your funding applications!
These easily quotable pieces of data help tell the story of why and how health justice partnerships can help people experiencing health inequity and unmet legal need.
HJP practitioners share three key things to consider when creating and maintaining successful partnerships.
Our published research
Forell, S., & O’Connor, S. (2024). Legal needs arising in mental health settings and staff capability and support to respond. International Journal of Integrated Care, 24(1), 19.
Forell, S., & McCarron, E. (2024). Health justice partnership: Access to justice meets health equity. Alternative Law Journal, 49(3), 168-173.
