Our blog

We believe in sharing the knowledge and learnings we capture through our work with people and organisations across the health and social services sectors. 

Our blog consists of thoughtful and practical content and insight across a range of topic areas that aims to better enable people and organisations to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.

Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan Community Advisory Group Meeting - April

Find out what we have achieved in the Community Advisory Group meetings for this project so far and the approach and outcomes of the April meeting, discussing the vision, purpose, implementation and governance of the Cairns and Hinterland region Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan.

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Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan Community Advisory Group Meeting - March

Wondering what the SPCAP CAG meetings look like? This blog explores our Community Advisory Group meeting: co-design session 1. Within this meeting, we identified issues and ideas surrounding suicide in the Cairns and Hinterland region communities. The outcomes of this meeting have detailed in this blog so be sure to check it out.

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Why use a survey to drive targeted engagement for the Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan?

As a part of our ongoing engagement with Northern Queensland PHN to develop a Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan, we have distributed a survey that aims to engage a broader community to contribute to the development of this plan. Read this blog to find out how you can be involved.

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Lived Experience and LGBTQIAP+ Engagement Opportunity!

We are inviting stakeholders from these communities to offer their thoughts and insights into the current state of suicide prevention in the Cairns and Hinterland region, and how it should look in the future to achieve better outcomes for the community. Read this blog to find out more about how to register and engage in these sessions!

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The importance of staying close to our project partners

At Beacon Strategies we've found that setting up consistent mechanisms for communicating with our client partners ensures we share our findings, progress, ideas approaches and concerns at the right times. As many of us work with both internal and external stakeholders, we thought sharing our insights on how we make this happen can help others broader than just a consultancy-type engagement.

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Meet Sarah… The engineer, traveller and Beacon Strategies Analyst

Sarah Crisci has joined our team as an analyst who originally lived and studied in America before moving to Darwin and working as a consultant. Her passion for the health and social service sector stems from her travels in Thailand, where she completed volunteer work in youth and community development. Sarah has already proved to be a valuable asset to the team and we think it’s about time you learnt more about what she has to offer.

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