Struggling to engage with stakeholders? We’ve listed a range of ways your PHN can effectively keep stakeholders happy and informed during your projects.

We share some insights drawn from a project we recently undertook in reviewing a PHN-funded situational distress service model — these insights aim to help both commissioning agencies and service provider organisations consider how to design more compassionate service models that address situational distress and contribute to suicide prevention outcomes.

Co-design is quite topical in the health and social services sectors and there can be some confusion about what co-design is, and probably more so what it isn’t and what is involved in a true co-design process.  Actually breaking down the word ‘co-design’ can help to develop a clear understanding of what it is.

If you were to scan various sources of literature about strategic planning processes you will see slight variations to what we present here, however, a good and comprehensive strategic planning process will generally follow the process phases that we outline here. 

In this blog, we are going to explore what a completed strategic plan looks like. We’ll cover each of the major components and explore what information is included in each. The following blog can be used as a template for developing your strategic plan.

The content in this blog has been designed to provide you with an understanding of what strategic planning is. We would like to preface that this content is introductory in nature and aims to support the development of a foundational understanding of strategic planning. 

In part two, we’re moving on and sharing some insights from two recently completed co-design projects our team has undertaken into two separate health system areas where consistent themes on health and financial exclusion have emerged

In February this year, Beacon Strategies Director, Elliot Parkinson attended a Financial Inclusion conference and presented on the regional barriers to financial inclusion and health. The contents of this presentation have now been transformed into the following two-part blog series about financial inclusion and its connection to the concept of health equity.

Grant and tender writing can be challenging for people in the not-for-profit (NFP) sector who are more accustomed to project management or client facing roles. Over the last couple of years, we’ve supported many NFPs to submit high quality grant and tender applications across topic areas from mental health, alcohol and other drugs, health and wellbeing, disability, employment, and many more!