The Attributes of Health Justice Partnership: a conceptual framework is the product of the scoping stage of the Evidence in Partnership project, currently underway as a collaboration between Health Justice Australia and 11 health justice partnerships in NSW and Victoria.
The purpose of this paper is to help understand what health justice partnership is and what it requires to make a difference to the capability and capacity of practitioners and services and through this, to provide more holistic care to clients.
Based on an in-depth study across 11 HJPs, we identified twelve key attributes – or operational components – of HJP. These are attributes identified across the HJPs that we believe are critical to the effectiveness of partnership or integration more broadly. Together, the Attributes of HJP Framework (the Framework) describe what makes an HJP, what is needed for HJP and the shared work that HJP enables.
In the Framework, twelve attributes sit across five domains to describe: the service and context; partner alignment; the enabling environment; joint effort; and the service change enabled by HJP. We also identified how there is scope for variation between HJPs within each of these attributes – enabling HJP to remain a person centred, context specific response to complex need.
Our partner organisations:
“When you work with people …you can get you get quite protective of your clients because you see the effort and you see the struggle for them. We work with a lot of people that have had really poor histories in terms of their interactions with either the health system or the justice system or just anybody in any sort of like professional role. …So, it is really beneficial that we know the lawyers, we know they’re going to treat our clients with dignity and respect and they’re going to approach situations with compassion and understanding…”
