Secondary consultation is communication and information sharing to support mutual patients and clients. Practitioners have identified this as a valuable activity of 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!
This template will help you develop a change strategy in four different scenarios: translating, trying something new, deepening engagement and scaling back or winding down.
A guide to developing and implementing a health justice partnership that responds to local conditions and needs.
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.
HJP practitioners share three key things to consider when creating and maintaining successful partnerships.
Reviewing the way you partner
Building effective health justice partnerships (HJPs) requires partners to pay attention to how they work together, not just what they do. One way to monitor this is by setting up processes for reviewing your partnership.
This short, interactive resource helps you reflect on and review the relationships, resources and processes that underpin your health justice partnership.
Use this document to help you to identify the added value of working in partnership (for all partners), and how you might better achieve your shared goals.
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.
This draft theory of change was developed by Health Justice Australia and the Centre for Social Impact.
HJP practitioners share three key things to consider when creating and maintaining successful partnerships.
We spoke to three experienced health justice partnership practitioners about their use of secondary consultation in their partnerships to share their professional expertise and strengthen relationships.
Key lessons from health and legal assistance services operating during the Covid19 pandemic that can help Australia build back better.
Health justice in practice
with Professor Harriet Hiscock, Paediatrician and Associate Director of Research at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI)
Professor Harriet Hiscock has seen first-hand the benefits of lawyers embedded in healthcare services alongside healthcare workers.
Let's Talk Health Justice
with Tilé Imo, Associate Director (Health Justice Partnerships), Caxton Legal Centre
Listen in to hear Tilé chat with Health Justice Australia’s CEO, Lottie Turner about how he and Caxton Legal Service, QLD turned informal relationships with likeminded individuals and services into established health justice partnerships. Tilé and Lottie also discuss how having hard conversations in partnership can lead to better outcomes, and much more!
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.
