As part of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Towards Zero Suicides initiatives, Beacon Strategies is supporting Roses in the Ocean to facilitate local co-design processes for twenty new Alternatives to EDs / Safe Spaces services in each of the local health districts (LHDs) across NSW. Beacon Strategies’ role is to document the findings emerging from the co-design process and use this to support the LHD to establish the service. This project is currently underway and expected to be completed by mid-2021.

Metro South Health has engaged Beacon Strategies to facilitate a series of workshops to support the implementation planning process and operationalisation of the Metro South Health “Health Equity Strategy”. Our engagement with Metro South Health spans two distinct phases: 1) workshop preparation, and 2) workshop facilitation.

This project will see Beacon Strategies leading and facilitating the engagement component of WMH’s LANA. The project will involve engagement with stakeholders, as well as collating and analysing existing data and resources to inform the development of an engagement summary report that identifies initial areas of need. 

Beacon Strategies were engaged by COORDINARE to support inside and out associates australia to co-design the establishment of local Suicide Prevention Outreach Teams (SPOT) in the South Eastern NSW region. The co-design of SPOT was funded by the NSW Ministry of Health as a key component of the statewide Towards Zero Suicides initiatives. Beacon Strategies summarised the co-design process through development of a service model summary document, presenting the final model to Illawarra Shoalhaven LHD at completion of the co-design process.

In July 2020, we closed off a service delivery project with our partners Children’s Health Queensland. Within this project we were engaged to support the transition from the development of a draft Child Protection Capability Framework to the development of contemporary resources. This project page outlines our approach to service design planning and implementation and how our involvement informed statewide implementation practices for the Child Protection Capability Framework.

This project saw Beacon Strategies evaluate the State-wide Oncoplastics Breast Reconstruction Initiative (SOBRI). SOBRI, piloted by Mater Health Services aims to improve access to breast reconstruction planning for breast cancer patients before undergoing mastectomy.