Innovative Community Participation

 Innovative Community Participation is a holistic service that fosters inclusivity, empowerment, and social engagement. It offers tailored support and helps participants achieve their goals and aspirations.

It is also a powerful tool for building resilience against life’s challenges. This is accomplished by empowering individuals to manage their emotions and build connections with their communities.

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It is widely recognized that disadvantaged groups are exposed to a higher degree of health risk factors and suffer from poorer health outcomes compared to non-disadvantaged populations. Community-based participatory research can help reduce these disparities by bringing the researchers and the community together to address common goals and challenges.

Community-based participatory research can be an effective tool to engage the community and educate people about cancer-related issues, as well as increase their confidence in participating in research studies. These studies can also improve the overall health of disadvantaged communities.

This study was conducted at a JSU JHS community event to evaluate the perceptions of participants on communication and participation strategies that can be utilized for effective dissemination of research messages. The results indicated that the participants prefer mail, email, and text messages to communicate about community outreach activities.

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Butterfly Transforming Lives

Butterfly is Australia’s leading national charity for eating disorders and body image issues. Its innovative campaigns and messaging have smashed eating disorder stigma, increasing help-seeking for eating disorders and related conditions.

The service uses a holistic approach that emphasizes community well-being, personal growth, and collective empowerment. This includes collaborative co-creation of solutions that are tailored to community needs and aspirations, as well as social skills workshops that help individuals build confidence in engaging with their communities. Butterfly also prioritizes inclusivity, ensuring that marginalized voices are heard.

Through active participation, community members improve access to resources, increase civic engagement, and foster personal growth and fulfillment. Additionally, they develop stronger leadership and more resilient communities, fostering sustainability and a lasting legacy of positive change. The Social Butterfly installations and Butterfly Drop campaigns are a great way for corporate partners to demonstrate their commitment to giving back to their local community in an impactful and fun way.

Open-Minded Care

Taking part in community events, social interaction, volunteering and skill-building helps people with disabilities improve their quality of life. It boosts their confidence, letting them become more independent. It’s also an excellent way to get support. This opens the door to more freedom and true inclusion in the community.

Innovative community participation with the NDIS puts a focus on each person’s unique needs and their aspirations. It offers creative answers to help them follow their interests and close gaps they might be struggling with.

It can take the form of recreational activities like yoga or group fitness classes, capacity-building workshops and courses or employment-related support, for example, learning how to use computers. This is a new way to help people follow their dreams and build stronger relationships in their communities.

These initiatives show how the NDIS is changing disability support. This approach puts each person’s needs at the centre of their supports, offering them a wide range of opportunities to engage with their communities, and build trusting relationships. This rich framework of engagement may offer a model for community-driven partnerships that can sustain trauma-informed community capacity building even during periods of high-stress and uncertainty such as the COVID-19 pandemic.