Falls prevention guidelines - Whole of Community Projects

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Background

DHS is responsible for funding a wide range of services to diverse client groups across Victoria. The Department’s principal function is to ensure the delivery of a range of health, housing and community services. Our mission statement is:

To enhance and protect the health and well being of all Victorians, emphasising vulnerable groups and those most in need.

It is State Government policy that the funding of non-government agencies for the provision of services to the community be undertaken in a context of partnership between the Government and the service sector. To this end, DHS signed a partnership agreement with funded agencies in the health, housing and community services sectors in October 2002. The agreement is supported by regular partnership forums. Regular partnership forums support the agreement, in this case by the quarterly Falls Prevention Program Network Meeting.

This document, Whole of Community Project Rationale and Funding Submission Guidelines, provides the overall rationale to guide Primary Care Partnerships (PCPs) intending to develop a submission to implement a ‘Whole of Community’ Falls Prevention project.

The PCP strategy has provided Victoria with an unprecedented opportunity to build the ongoing capacity of the human services system to plan and deliver effective, integrated health promotion. This falls prevention funding provides opportunities for PCPs to work with a range of partners across multiple settings, including public sector residential aged care services and other not for profit agencies within a designated local catchment area. Working directly with acute and residential services enables PCP member agencies to facilitate better admission and discharge planning and provides older people with a seamless response to reduce the risk of falls and improve injury prevention.

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Falls prevention guidelines: Whole of Community Projects 2006-07 (249kb, pdf)

Falls prevention guidelines: Whole of Community Projects 2005-06 (174kb, pdf)

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