HJA’s submission on the Second Action Plan explains how the evidence and practice-based insights from HJP informed our’s practical recommendations for strengthening integrated responses to DFSV.
But in all the talk of budgets, workforce participation, and technological innovation, one critical ingredient is often missing: people’s wellbeing. Here’s our submission to the Economic Reform Roundtable.
Our submission to the VLRC Inquiry into legal privilege and integrated legal services highlights how legal privilege can create challenges for collaborative, patient/client-centred, trauma-informed service delivery and explores opportunities for, and potential consequences of, reform.
Our submission to the VLRC Inquiry into legal privilege and integrated legal services highlights how legal privilege can create challenges for collaborative, patient/client-centred, trauma-informed service delivery and explores opportunities for, and potential consequences of, reform.
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.
Health justice partnership as early intervention in child and family service settings
Families seeking support through a Hub may not realise that a legal issue is contributing to the challenges they are experiencing, or that legal assistance could be part of the solution. Integrating legal assistance into a broader network of health, social and community services helps address interconnected needs through coordinated, person-centred support.
This policy brief, authored by former HJA Research Director Suzie Forell and Sarah Loveday from the Centre of Research Excellence in Childhood Adversity and Mental Health, draws on case studies of HJPs based in Hubs to identify key ingredients for successful partnerships: shared purpose, collaborative processes and sustained investment in relationships.
Through partnership, services can provide help for the complex issues that go hand in hand with domestic and family violence.
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.
Health justice partnership uses legal help to improve client outcomes, offering one avenue for more holistic responses to compounding issues around mental ill-health.
Health justice partnerships across asutralia
Since 2012 there has been a significant increase in health justice partnerships across the country, although some legal services have been working in health settings for longer. Health justice partnerships are operating in every state and territory in Australia and provide access to legal help through a range of health and community services and settings.
