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Welcome to the June edition of the monthly South Coast PCP News for 2021. For additional updates please follow us on facebook, and instagram, or visit our website.
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- Vic PCP Health Literacy Course
- South Coast Prevention Team - 2nd Birthday!
- Gippsland Southern Health Service - 2021 Disability Art Show
- The Way Back Support Service (TWBSS)
- BreastScreen Victoria van returns to Leongatha with free breast screens
- Tell Gippsland PHN about health care in your community
- Scope Health Literacy: producing written materials that are easy to understand
- Black Dog Institute - Mental health support for Australian healthcare workers
- Gambling Support - Call someone who gets it
- Bass Coast Shire Council - $1,000 Accessibility Funding
- Aspergers Victoria - Peer groups
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PCP Update
Vic PCP Health Literacy Course
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ASCSQHC) identify health literacy as important to ensure safe and high-quality health care (ACSQHC, 2015). Sixty percent of Australians do not have sufficient health literacy skills to understand and interpret health information; this impacts their ability to make informed health care decisions, and, is identified as associated with lower uptake of preventative health approaches and poor health status (ACSQHC, 2015).
The Victorian Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) partnered with health and human service organisations across Victoria to develop the Vic PCP Online Health Literacy Course.
The course has been designed for Victorian health and human service organisations to build knowledge and skills in health literacy responsiveness. The course is available free of charge here.
After completing the course, staff will have an understanding of:
- What health literacy responsiveness is
- Their role in improving health literacy responsiveness
- How health literacy improvements can be implemented within your organisation.
The course is designed to allow staff to complete the modules most relevant to their role. The course is suitable for all staff, regardless of their existing knowledge of health literacy. This broad approach to increase staff knowledge and skills has been designed to complement more targeted health literacy activities within your organisation.
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South Coast Prevention Update
South Coast Prevention Team - 2nd Birthday!
On the 10th June 2019 the health promotion staff from Bass Coast Health, Gippsland Southern Health Service, South Gippsland Hospital and South Coast Primary and Community Partnership came together to form the South Coast Prevention Team.
Working together as one team has enabled us to align priorities and ensure equitable distribution of health promotion resources across Bass Coast and South Gippsland.
Some of our key achievements include Tap Water Everyday and Step Outside Move Your Way. Find out more about what the team does here.
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Service Providers Network News
Gippsland Southern Health Service - 2021 Disability Art Show
We are seeking expressions of interest for our 4th annual Art Show, Renewal - Regeneration and Keeping It Real.
- Do you know anyone that identifies as being differently abled?
- Do they like to create & express themselves through art?
- Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Photography, Writing or any other media?
- Creating interesting pieces of art from any type of materials?
We’re planning our Renewal, Regeneration & Keeping it real art show - It will be held in late November / early December 2021, at our Leongatha display space. International day of People with Disability will be celebrated during our event. We’re also planning to take our Art show online again this year. With a ‘virtual display’ via a dedicated webpage and a social media presence.
For more information about this event please contact:
Vivian Carroll - Manager Allied Health Services - 5654 2701
vivian.carroll@gshs.com.au
Michelle O’Loughlin - NDIS Service Coordinator - 5667 5662
michelle.o’loughlin@gshs.com.au
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The Way Back Support Service (TWBSS)
TWBSS is a suicide support service; providing psychosocial support alongside clinical support from our HOPE team at LRH if required. We stay engaged with the participant for up to 3 months to address the psychosocial drivers to suicide. This can include financial, relationship, mental illness, assisting with coordinating referrals in clinical and non-clinical pathways to name a few. Our current eligibility criteria is being 18+, either having been admitted to ED for a suicide attempt or experiencing suicidal crisis, this can include having current thoughts and plans for suicide. We are a free, voluntary service. Click here to view a short video to explain how TWBSS works practically.
For more information or to access a TWBSS referral form email thewaybackgippsland@wellways.org or call (03) 5622 4140.
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Partner News
BreastScreen Victoria van returns to Leongatha with free breast screens
From 5 July – 20 August 2021, BreastScreen Victoria’s hot pink van will return to Leongatha to provide free breast screens to the community.
Women aged between 50 and 74 should have a free breast screen every two years. They are the best way to find breast cancer early, before there are symptoms and when treatment is most successful.
All breast screens are with a female radiographer, in a friendly and safe environment. You don’t need a doctor’s referral or Medicare card, and screens only take 10 minutes.
BreastScreen Victoria has safety measures in place to protect clients and staff against the risk of COVID-19. This includes mandatory face masks and spaced out appointments to allow for physical distancing, and more cleaning in between appointments. More information about screening during COVID-19 can be found on the BreastScreen Victoria website.
The van will be at Gippsland Southern Health Service – 66 Koonwarra road, Leongatha (next to Koorooman House).
Appointments for the Leongatha van can be made online or by calling 13 20 50.
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Tell Gippsland PHN about health care in your community
Gippsland PHN are working with Monash University to learn more about the health needs of the Gippsland community. You can help by completing a 10 minute survey.At the end of the survey, you can enter a draw to win one of ten $100 supermarket vouchers and you have the option to tell us more about your health care in an interview or other format. You can also participate in future opportunities related to this survey.
It is called: Tell Gippsland PHN about health care in your community
Who is it for: Anyone in Gippsland
Find out more: Tell Gippsland PHN website has a new look and includes more information. You can download the Explanatory Statement, paper survey and flyer.
Why? Answers will inform the Gippsland PHN Health Needs Assessment 2021
Respondents can go in a draw to win one of ten $100 supermarket vouchers. People can register their interest in telling us more by taking part in an interview (or write their own story) or becoming a Gippsland PHN Community Contact.
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Scope Health Literacy: producing written materials that are easy to understand
Do you sometimes have to create brochures, pamphlets or other educational resources for your clients?
To ensure the information we provide our clients is most useful, it should be easy to understand for anyone regardless of their health literacy. This resource from Scope provides some guidelines that can be used to ensure you provide the best possible information in a way that’s easy to read and understand.
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Black Dog Institute - Mental health support for Australian healthcare workers
Health professionals can access free psychological clinical care through TEN - The Essential Network for Health Professionals, with up to 5 sessions with a clinical psychologist/psychiatrist for any mental health concern they may be facing. These free sessions are offered Australia-wide via telehealth. No referral, Medicare, or GP information is required, and all health workers are eligible for the service.
For more information about talking to a Black Dog Institute mental health professional, click here.
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Gambling Support - Call someone who gets it
Anyone who is negatively affected by their own or someone else’s gambling is encouraged to call Latrobe Community Health Service on 1800 242 696 or the 24/7 Gambler’s Helpline on 1800 858 858 for free, confidential advice, support and referral.
Opening up and seeking professional support for gambling harm can feel confronting, but counselling involves talking to someone who gets it. It is often the first step to finding relief and starting on a journey of change.
Counselling can be a positive and life-changing experience.
Call 1800 242 696
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Bass Coast Shire Council - $1,000 Accessibility Funding
Your business or community organisation is invited to apply for funding to increase the number of people with a disability accessing your service as customers, visitors, members or employees.
Funding could support:
•Improvements to physical access
•Disability Awareness Training
•Large print menus
•Disability action plan
•Any other idea that you think will help people with a disability access your business or community organisation
Applications close 5.00pm Friday, 25 June 2021 For more information and application form, visit our website or contact Kathryn Pryor, Access and Healthy Ageing Officer 1300 226 278 or shirley.egan@basscoast.vic.gov.au
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Aspergers Victoria - Peer groups
Aspergers Victoria Peer Groups provide an opportunity for Aspergers autistics and their families to connect, listen, share stories, learn and belong to a community of supportive peers with similar lived experience - a group of people who 'just get you'. Join in one of our Peer Group Zoom or face to face sessions to meet new people, share knowledge, be heard and make friends.
Click here for more information.
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Webinars
Some webinars may be available to view after the date
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Next edition: 8 July 2021
Information cut off: 2 July 2021
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