Community Connect
Welcome to Community Connect, where we showcase some of our programs and services that are enabling communities to thrive through improved health and wellbeing.
Past newsletters
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May 2024
In this edition, we shed some light on programs across our footprint:
- Our team delivering the only worldwide downward age extension pilot of MST-CAN®
- Mirror on Reading extended to small schools, with an impact on school attendance
- A trial program boosting collaboration in support of NDIS clients with complex care needs
- Boosting our workforce in response to the growing number of people diagnosed with diabetes.
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March 2024
In this edition, we shed some light on programs across our footprint:
- The Intergenerational Program at Lithgow, bringing older people and preschoolers together
- Success among the learners in our Aboriginal Workforce Development Initiative
- Benefits of conversational-style assessments for young people at Bourke
- Capacity-building efforts across our footprint by our Positive Behaviour Support team.
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November 2023
In this edition, we shed some light on programs across our footprint:
- Our inclusion as a finalist in the 2023 National Rural and Remote Health Awards
- A renewed focus for headspace Dubbo, with a full house and a new sense of vitality
- Throwing a spotlight on the effectiveness of a coordinated approach to care for our clients
- The benefits of WARATAH for Kids for vulnerable children in the Murrumbidgee.
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August 2023
In this edition, we shed some light on programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- A new project in 10 Western NSW communities that is enabling a regional First Nations workforce
- How our early career pathways are supporting developing the rural allied health workforce
- Resources we have developed to improve after hours supports for NDIS participants
- How social prescribing is providing flexible support for clients in the Murrumbidgee
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May 2023
In this edition, we showcase some programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- A partnership that is increasing access to allied health support at Coonamble
- A pilot program using a Nurse Practitioner to enhance our youth-focused service delivery at two of our headspace centres
- The progress we have made in developing our Peer Workforce over the past two years
- Free speech pathology assessments that are supporting children in four Western NSW communities
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March 2023
In this edition, we showcase some programs that are achieving great success across rural and regional NSW:
- How one client’s heart check-up uncovered something more serious
- High numbers of people using after-hours clinics at Bathurst and Dubbo hospitals instead of the local emergency departments
- Uni students helping address the psychology staff shortages at headspace
- New care finder service launched in the Murrumbidgee
Page last updated: 10 July 2024
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