our projects

Community Strengthening

Community strengthening is about supporting communities to build their own resilience by galvanizing resources, skills and energy within the community to promote social cohesion, improved community participation levels and improvement to overall community health. Program intervention is often short to medium term and development of sustainable practices is central to measuring success. Our projects include Victoria wide pilot projects, often as formative evaluations over 2 to 3 years. Our projects have included particular skill in maintaining evaluation impetus, keeping clients informed, and bringing all the findings together into effective reporting which aligns with the needs of the local community as well as the funding agency.

We also have extensive experience in understanding that, as consultants, we need to tread carefully here: our presence is a change factor itself. We work closely with clients to make sure that these factors are considered and our direct engagement and ‘footprint’ is appropriate to the situation.

Many of these projects include local and statewide partnerships and we are very experienced in undertaking Partnership reviews. We use the VicHealth Partnership Analysis Tool, with capacity for adaptation of elements of the New York Tool as required to ensure that the major objectives and performance domains of your project are included. Partnership reviews can take many forms: pre, mid and project final comparisons, workshops, interviews and comprehensive reporting. – we work with our clients to identify the most productive approach for their project.