Alternatives to Emergency Departments: Roses in the Ocean
Status: Completed mid-2021
Client: Roses in the Ocean
Partners: New South Wales Ministry of Health
Background
As part of the NSW Ministry of Health’s Towards Zero Suicides initiatives, twenty new Alternatives to EDs / Safe Spaces services are being established in each of the local health districts (LHDs) across NSW.
The MoH has developed statewide requirements to guide the development and implementation of Safe Space services, which include a requirement to undertake a local co-design process to ensure each service meets the needs of local communities.
The MoH has engaged Roses in the Ocean, a leading organisation for lived experience in suicide prevention in Australia, to lead a co-design process for each new Safe Space. Beacon Strategies is supporting the Roses in the Ocean team and LHDs throughout the process with collating and theming codesign outputs and providing tailored support for each LHD to assist with service implementation.
Approach
Beacon Strategies is supporting Roses in the Ocean facilitation teams to develop co-design products and outputs throughout the co-design process, as well as supporting individual LHDs with taking the outputs of the co-design process and planning for service implementation.
Our role includes:
Working with Roses in the Ocean facilitators to plan for co-design sessions
Meeting with co-design groups, and listening to and capturing their experiences
Preparing slidedecks and feedback loop surveys
Providing advice and developing reports/documentation to assist and boost the capacity of LHDs to establish the service in line with the co-design findings.
This project is currently underway and our team is currently supporting several LHDs across NSW remotely, with the project expected to be completed by mid-2021.
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