Graduates look towards healthy futures

MORE than 20 future leaders have successfully graduated from the Bellarine Healthy Futures
Leadership program.

The program, run by Bellarine Community Health and funded through the federal government’s Building Better Regions Fund, was a series of workshops and mentoring sessions aimed at enhancing the skills and leadership capabilities of participants.

The participants, made up of primary health care professionals and community sector colleagues, worked on various project ideas including identifying local improvements and innovations to enhance patient and community health outcomes on the Bellarine.

Leadership program facilitator Leigh Bennett from Enterprise Innovations described the program as a great initiative, which will contribute significantly to professional development in the health-care sector.

“Bellarine Community Health staff and their colleagues from across the peninsula, worked diligently, showed enormous enthusiasm and profound insights through their engagement with the workshops and mentoring,” Mr Bennett said.

He said the commitment, talent and future leadership capacity of all involved was impressive. “Bellarine Community Health should be very proud of this initiative and its contribution to professional development in the sector.”

Project ideas workshopped by the participants included streamlining the assessment process for clients accessing multiple services in their healthcare journey, improving social inclusion through the development of a Dementia Café for people living with dementia, and expanding non-clinical services to enable clients to remain living in their homes.

Participants presented their projects at a Symposium at Bellarine Community Health last week, which was attended by Corangamite federal member Sarah Henderson.