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#CentralHumePCP #SecurePCPsFuture
If someone had a formula that improved your physical and mental health and had you feeling more capable all round, would you sign-up to find out more about it?
As one of 28 PCPs in Victoria, all marking 20 years in 2020, we are showcasing programs that provide health and wellbeing benefits to our communities in Benalla, Mansfield, Wangaratta and Alpine council areas.
The Alpine Active Living Mapping program started in 2018 to find out why so many residents of the Alpine Shire were not meeting the Australian Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines. Since then, the Alpine Active Group has been helping residents undertake more physical activity, both personally and through workplaces.
The guidelines state that adults should accumulate 2 ½ to 5 hours of moderate intensity physical activity, 1 ¼ to 2 ½ hours of vigorous intensity physical activity, or an equivalent combination of both, each week.
How do your activity levels compare?
Case Study Link: https://www.centralhumepcp.org/our-work |
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Central Hume PCP and Bendigo Loddon PCP have partnered to develop a case study that outlines how the two PCPs reacted to the pandemic. Both PCPs supported local communities through the development of a communications platform that provided relevant resources and accurate information.
The case study highlights the importance of communication during a crisis and the importance of enabling place-based messaging by responding to local community needs.
PCPs bring diversity, perspective, expertise and knowledge, to ensure our partners feel supported and equipped with the relevant resources needed to adapt to the ongoing nature of this pandemic.
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Health and community services, local governments and community organisations are playing a vital role is supporting community through this pandemic. We would like to thank those services and staff who have been working tirelessly to respond. We are appreciative of those who are not only trying to support their own family, but who are also there for other individuals and families in our community.
The State of Emergency for Victoria has been extended until the 19th July 2020. There have been so many changes to restrictions with lock downs in Melbourne and the Victorian New South Wales border being closed. Further information on restrictions can be found at the top of our COVID-19 web page.
In response to the tower lock down in Melbourne, the Department of Health and Human Services have developed a number of in-language materials, which are available in 54 languages. These in-language materials can be found at the top of our COVID-19 web page and under the CALD tab under vulnerable groups at risk.
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity, and Health have also developed some great multilingual resources. These can also be found under the CALD tab under vulnerable groups at risk.
Looking after your mental health continues to be crucial as we navigate our way through this pandemic. Beyond Blue have a number of incredible tailored resources available. These resources can be found under the mental wellbeing tab under community support and information.
The Australian Psychological Society have also developed a number of resources to support people to cope with anxiety and isolation during the pandemic. A link to this website can also be found under the mental wellbeing tab under community support and Information.
National Diabetes Week starts this Sunday the 12th of July. Diabetes Australia have developed some resources to assist people to manage their diabetes during this pandemic. Links to these resources can be found under people with chronic conditions under the vulnerable groups at risk tab.
We hope the webpage continues to be a beneficial resource to the communities across Central Hume.
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To keep Victorians safe, from 11.59 PM 1 July, there are new restrictions for people who live in the following postcodes in Melbourne: 3012, 3021, 3031, 3032, 3038, 3042, 3046, 3047, 3051, 3055, 3060 and 3064.
As a key stakeholder with important connections across Victoria’s multicultural communities, we ask for your support in sharing the information in this pack widely through your networks.
Every Victorian must play their part in slowing the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). But now, it’s especially important for people in these postcodes to protect themselves, their families, their friends, their workplaces and the community by staying home and limiting contact with other people.
As you know, access to translated information is particularly important for people who are isolated from friends, family and their usual support network – which means your support is invaluable in controlling the spread of coronavirus.
There are in-language materials available in 54 languages:
Find translated ‘4 reasons to leave home’ posters here
Find translated ‘get tested’ posters here
Find translated ‘3 ways to stay safe’ posters here
Find translated social media posts here
Find in-language audio messages here
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Date and time: Thu 16th Jul 2020, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location: Via Zoom - Link will be sent to registrants
Cost: Free
In conversation Collaboration for Impact is beginning a series of reflections and conversations about adaptation in these times and what it means for all changemakers working in place, at scale and those taking up and enabling leadership. In this webinar we will be exploring and listening in to how intermediaries are learning, leveraging and emerging or planning to emerge from a post COVID-19 world. What does it mean to do differently when others might want to go back to "business as usual" ? What opportunities are on the horizon? What are we holding onto and letting go of? Collaboration for Impact is working in uncertainty with agility and contributing to creating the conditions for a more equitable and inclusive Australia is the foundation for their practice and leadership.
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Emergency Management Victoria, Victorian Council of Social Services and Community Information and Support Victoria, commissioned a Food and Material Aid survey to assess the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on Victoria’s emergency relief sector.
The survey was opened to respondents in Victoria’s emergency relief sector from 27 April 2020 and closed on 11 May 2020.
Emergency Management Victoria (EMV) has now provided a Summary of Key Outcomes for your information. This document provides a summary of the key outcomes from the survey inclusive of key insights and some notes regarding caveats and limitations.
VCOSS continues to work with Community Information and Services Victoria and other stakeholders to highlight the critical role of Emergency Relief organisations.
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The Life during COVID-19 survey ran from May 1 to June 9 2020 and had 7,306 participants from around Australia. It was the first survey in the Families in Australia Survey series.
Our aim was to understand how Australian families coped with the COVID‑19 pandemic, one of the greatest health, social and economic challenges in history. We focused on how families:
- adjusted to the pandemic, and the restrictions and programs that were put in place
- experienced the social and economic impacts of the pandemic
- supported each other, even when they didn’t, or couldn’t, live together
- protected their physical and mental health.
The findings in this report are drawn from our first analyses of the survey data. Later reports will add to, and expand on, these findings.
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Media Release: Working Together To Keep Agriculture Moving
The Victorian and New South Wales Governments are working together to ensure our vital agriculture industry can continue to operate while our border is closed.
While some impacts to the Victorian and NSW agricultural industries are anticipated, Victorian Agriculture Minister Jaclyn Symes and NSW Minister Adam Marshall have committed to working through any issues that arise to ensure farmers and agribusinesses can continue get their produce to market.
This includes declaration from the NSW Government of agriculture, freight and logistics as critical services, supporting businesses across the border.
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Murray PHN has launched a new counselling service to help community members with a variety of emotional issues, including anxiety, depression, isolation and loneliness. Talk it Out is a free phone and online counselling service for people in the Murray PHN region who are feeling the pressures and stresses of everyday life.
The service, which is aimed at those aged 15 and over, is provided by professionally trained counsellors who will listen and help people develop strategies to manage what is causing them to feel stressed or overwhelmed.
Talk it Out is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on 1300 022 946 or by visiting talkitoutmurray.org.au and signing up for online counselling. The Talk it Out service is delivered by On the Line, the national provider of MensLine Australia, Suicide Call Back Service and SuicideLine Victoria.
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The SANE Australia StigmaWatch program has supported the safe, respectful and responsible reporting of mental ill-health and suicide in the Australian media for many years.
We are extremely excited to be working with Mindframe on a pilot program, to expand our remit and provide education and support for media professionals when communicating about alcohol and other drugs (AOD).
The new Mindframe for AOD guidelines encourage the use of correct terminology and responsible language to help reduce stigma and discrimination. It also promotes the inclusion of help-seeking information encouraging people who use AOD to access support services.
If you see problematic media coverage of AOD in any media outlet across Australia, you can easily and anonymously submit a report to StigmaWatch. The team will review each report independently and provide feedback and advice to ensure the media fairly and accurately portrays the use of AOD.
To make a report to SANE’s StigmaWatch AOD program go to sane.org
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Family Safety Victoria’s (FSV) MARAM Organisational Embedding Guide is now finalised and live on the MARAM resources website under “organisational focused resources”:
You will be aware that FSV consulted with departments and sector stakeholders through a variety of governance groups and channels on the organisational embedding resources. Overwhelmingly feedback was for something pragmatic, containing practical examples and which linked to guides and tools that already exist.
The guide comprises of three core tools which set out suggested steps for organisational alignment with clear practical examples, drawing on existing resources (most notably the MARAM Practice Guides); the website also contains many other new resources which support these three core tools.
The organisational self-audit tool is a living document; it will be updated over time as needed, for example when perpetrator focused MARAM practice guides are completed.
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Family Safety Victoria (FSV) has produced a new video to guide practitioners through the MARAM Practice Notes developed to outline the heightened and additional risk factors for victim survivors and perpetrators during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The video includes an opening address from FSV Chief Executive Officer, Eleri Butler, followed by an overview of the new MARAM Practice Notes, with a particular focus on MARAM risk factors in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, best practice response for specialist practitioners, and the importance of collaborative practice.
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The Family Violence Reform Implementation Monitor is calling for submissions from organisations delivering family violence services and individual family violence practitioners. A report about these submissions will be tabled in the Victorian Parliament later this year. For more information visit Engage Victoria.
To offer your experiences and ideas can be as straightforward as answering online questions https://engage.vic.gov.au/call-submissions-monitoring-family-violence-reforms/organisation so please take a look and help us make sure Ovens Murray and diverse experiences are included in the consultation and report.
The Monitor’s final report is examining what has changed since the Royal Commission into Family Violence released its report in 2016, and what remains to be done.
They are seeking view on:
- how the family violence service system, and users’ experience of it, has changed since the Royal Commission
- looking forward: what is still required in the family violence reforms
- the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Submissions close on the 20th July 2020
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NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia during the first Sunday in July until the following Sunday to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Due to COVID-19, NAIDOC week has been postponed until the 8th to 15th November 2020.
This is a short video, which provides a snapshot of the history of NAIDOC week and the theme for this years NAIDOC week.
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Aboriginal identified position
The Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service Inc. (AWAHS) provides first class Primary Health Care Services to the Aboriginal community who reside in Albury / Wodonga and surrounding areas.
- Rewarding career
- Great team
- Empower your clients
Great opportunity for an engaging, highly organised and compassionate Mental Health Worker to be part of a dynamic organisation that supports its team, its clients and the community.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team you will be engaging with clients and their families affected by mental health and associated issues. This challenging but very rewarding role will see you interact with a range of supporting organisations and stakeholders in order to get the best outcomes for your clients.
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Applications 20th July, 2020
Please note: This is an “identified” position as such only persons identified as Aboriginal will be successful
In this position, Aboriginality is a genuine, occupational qualification and is authorised by section 14 (d) of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act, 1977 NSW.
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Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre Community Portal
The AOD Knowledge Centre Community Portal is for Elders and community members who may be concerned about alcohol and drug use in their community. Family, friends and Elders may be worried about someone’s drug use, looking for support and want to find out more on how others are taking action in their communities.
Find information through the Community Portal on useful resources, community-based organisations, programs to support people, funding opportunities and training for community members who want to learn new skills.
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Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic) Rural is partnering with RSPCA Victoria to focus on animal welfare in bushfire affected and impacted communities.
YACVic Rural Young Activators are young people aged 16-25 who are passionate about driving change in their local community. We are proud to announce that the 2020 Young Activators Program will be sponsored by RSPCA Victoria, and focus on Young Activators who live, work, or study in areas impacted by the 2019/20 bushfires across rural and regional Victoria.
The 2020 Young Activators will work to develop and deliver an animal welfare project designed to help their local community recover and build resilience.
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Applications close: Wednesday 15 July 2020 – 11.59pm
For more info contact: Derm Ryan - 0408 674738 or dryan@yacvic.org.au
yacvic.org.au/activators
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People struggling with mental health after the state’s devastating bushfires will get the help they need from services and programs in their own communities, with a funding boost from the Victorian Government.
Minister for Mental Health Martin Foley today announced all the services set to receive their share of the Victorian Government’s $23.4 million recovery fund, acknowledging the need for all Victorians to stand beside our courageous rural communities as they rebuild their lives.
The package includes $8.75 million to bolster mental health services provided by Albury Wodonga Health and Latrobe Regional Health who offer specialist early intervention advice to GPs and community clinicians.
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Vitrual Information Sessions
Where: Virtual Information Sessions via Microsoft Teams
Victorian NDIS Community update Dates & Times:
- Tuesday 14 July 2020 - 10.00am – 11.30am
- Thursday 16 July 2020 - 1.00pm – 2.30pm
Victorian and Tasmanian NDIS Community update Dates & Times:
- Tuesday 21 July 2020 - 10.00am – 11.30am
- Thursday 23 July 2020 - 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- Tuesday 28 July 2020 - 10.00am – 11.30am
- Thursday 30 July 2020 - 1.00pm – 2.30pm
- Tuesday 4 August 2020 - 10.00am – 11.30am
- Thursday 6 August 2020 - 1.00pm – 2.30pm
The National Disability Insurance Agency would like to invite the Victorian community sector to attend a session about NDIS updates coming into effect from 1 July 2020.
Topics covered will include:
- COVID-19 updates
- Price guide and support catalogue updates
- Hearing supports and services
- Support to employment
- Housing and supported accommodation.
Please note these sessions will be offered weekly during July and in the first week of August, to allow flexibility for attendees. Each session will cover the same content, and will have a maximum capacity of 100 attendees.
Due to COVID-19, this session will be held via videoconference using Microsoft Teams. Details on how to log into the session will be forwarded to all attendees two days prior to the session date, using the email address provided at registration.
You are encouraged to register your interest as early as possible (at least three days prior) to ensure session log in details are forwarded to you.
For any enquiries regarding this session, please contact events@ndis.gov.au
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In 2020, National Diabetes Week focuses on the mental and emotional health impact of living with diabetes.
From 12-18 July, Diabetes Australia will raise awareness through the ‘Heads Up’ campaign about living with a dual diagnosis of diabetes and mental illness.
According to Diabetes Australia, “Up to 50% of people with diabetes are thought to also have a mental illness such as depression or anxiety”.
Did you know?
The conditions of self-isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic have raised concerns with a drop in nearly 40 per cent of pathology tests.
In an open letter on 26 May, Diabetes Australia states: “Before COVID-19 struck, we were already concerned that the number of people getting cancer screening tests was too low. We also knew that early detection and monitoring for type 2 diabetes, heart disease and kidney disease were lacking, with large numbers of undiagnosed cases. COVID-19 has made these existing problems even worse”.
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Type 2 diabetes can be prevented and the Life! program can help.
Life! is a FREE healthy lifestyle program funded by the state government and run by Diabetes Victoria. Since 2007, over 60,000 Victorians have joined the program and taken the first step to good health.
Life!’s dedicated team of health professionals support participants with evidence-based advice on nutrition, physical activity, sleep, managing stress and setbacks and goal setting. Participants can choose either the Life! telephone health coaching service or the group course, which is now running online due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Please see our Life! brochure which provides an overview of the program. You can also order hard copies of the brochure here.
The Life! program also offers a Financial Incentive Agreement for GPs – GPs receive up to $45 + GST for every eligible referral into the program. To learn more about the program’s eligibility criteria, referring and the financial incentive agreement, click here.
For more information and to sign up to the Financial Incentive Agreement, contact the Life! program’s Primary Care Engagement Coordinator, Elleni Kaias, at ekaias@diabetesvic.org.au.
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Webinar details:
Date: Monday, 20 July 2020
Time: 7:15
Duration: 75 minutes
Responding to the needs of people experiencing social anxiety disorder
Through an exploration of social anxiety disorder the webinar will provide participants with the opportunity to:
• Identify associations, comorbidities and patterns of treatment-seeking behaviour of people experiencing social anxiety disorder.
• Describe tips and strategies that can assist someone experiencing social anxiety disorder.
• Demonstrate the importance of collaboration and appropriate referrals when supporting a person experiencing social anxiety disorder.
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 Webinar details:
Date: Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Time: 7:15 pm
Duration: 75 minutes
Questions? Email MHPN on webinars@mhpn.org.au or call the Redback help desk on
1800 291 863.
Through a case based discussion, an interdisciplinary panel of clinical experts will explore the relationship and interplay between ageing related issues, including (but not limited to); mental and physical health, grief, loss and social isolation.
Register now to explore the challenges, merits and opportunities of evidence-based approaches deemed most effective in treating and supporting older people with mental and physical health and/or psychosocial issues. By outlining the roles of different disciplines in treating and supporting older people, the webinar aims to ensure that referrals are better targeted, thereby improving consumer outcomes.
31 Australian Primary Health Networks partnered with MHPN to produce this webinar, which is as part of a national initiative that will see a further two webinars broadcast over the next year.
The interdisciplinary panel of subject matter experts includes: Mr Chris Hall (Psychologist), Dr Rod McKay (Psychiatrist) and Professor Susan Kurrle (Geriatrician), with Dr Stephen Ginsborg (General Practitioner) as the facilitator.
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In our 2019 Research Report, Loneliness in Australia, 46.5% of low income respondents identified money as a barrier to making social connection.
This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss issues, latest research and interventions related to loneliness particularly with a focus on rural and regional Australia.
Due to COVID-19 the decision was made to run this conference online, this is now a FREE event.
We have a series of presentations lined up from the 27th until the 31st of July.
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Course details
Cost: $950
Duration: 13 weeks: 26 August – 18 November 2020
Time commitment:
- 4 x 1.5 hour Online workshops
- 1 x 2 hour Executive forum
- 8 hours Self-paced eLearning Units, Webinars
- ~20 hrs Project to apply what you learn
Delivery modes: eLearning, webinars and online workshops
Topics covered:
- Consumer participation – plan services with your clients to better meet their needs
- Plain language – make your written and spoken communication easier for clients to understand
- Navigation – make your website, phone systems and physical spaces easier for clients to use
- Organisational Health Literacy – make your organisational systems and processes support consumer participation, plain language, navigation and more.
Learn practical & strategic skills to:
- run a real health literacy improvement project at your work supported by our trainers
- present your project to your organisational leaders
- plan service improvements for your clients and improve your accreditation readiness
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