Sue Heward

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Partnerships and Collaboration

• Sue Heward
• Primary and Community Health
• Rural and Regional Health and Aged Care Services

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Structure

• 230-240 Welcome and Introductions
• 240-335 Working in partnership and
  collaborations
• 335-345 Enablers and Strategies
• 345-400 Collaboration at work
• 400-420 Trust and Conflict
• 420-430 Evaluation

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Partnerships

• A partnership may be defined as a voluntary
  arrangement that is developed between parties
  that agree to work cooperatively towards shared
  and/or compatible objectives.
• A partnership does not compromise the principles
  of the partners. Partners may be provided with
  the resources they need for agreed tasks. The
  term partnership carries responsibilities about
  sharing of resources, risks and decision-making,
  trust, cooperation towards shared and/or
  compatible objectives, and negotiation of shared
  goals towards interests in a shared future.
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Source Health Canada 1996 in Torjman, S. (1998).
Partnerships the good, the bad and the
uncertain. Caledon Institute of Social Policy.
ISBN 894159-08-X.
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Collaboration

• a process through which parties who see
  different aspects of a problem can constructively
  explore their differences and search for
  solutions that go beyond their own limited vision
  of what is possible
• Source Walker R. Collaboration and Alliances A
  Review for VicHealth (p.1)
•  Aims of Collaboration
• To achieve specific health promotion outcomes.
• To establish a community development process
  which enhances social capital and community
  capacity.
•  Source University of Wisconsin - Cooperative
  Extension (1998) Evaluating collaboratives
  reaching the potential, University of Wisconsin,
  Madison cited in Walker R, (2000)

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Objectives of Collaboration

• Creation or modification of service delivery
• Resource maximisation
• Policy development
• Systems development and change through changed
  relationships between organisations
• Social and community development aimed at
  strengthening communities

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Levels of Partnerships
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Stages to Collaborative Partnerships

• Stage One Problem Setting
• Stage Two Reaching Agreement
• Stage Three Implementation
• Source Walker R, Collaboration and Alliances A
  Review for VicHealth (p.16)

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Success Indicators

• Leadership and Organisational structure
• Workforce development and Resources
• Planning

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Leadership Scenario Questions

• How should the Group deal with the competition
  for the project leadership role? Why do you think
  the leader role is so important to the two
  competing agencies?
• Why do you think the level of support and
  commitment to the falls prevention project
  differs between the individuals on the Health
  Promotion Committee and those of the agencies
  they are representing?
• How would you go about establishing mutually
  agreed outcomes for the project?

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Contact Info

• Susan.heward_at_dhs.vic.gov.au
• www.dhs.vic.gov.au/phkb