How do you move co-design from an aspiration to everyday practice? That was the challenge COORDINARE set out to address when it partnered with Beacon Strategies to develop a practical, organisation-wide co-design toolkit.

Designed specifically for the realities of a Primary Health Network, the toolkit helps staff understand when co-design is appropriate, how deeply it should be applied, and what conditions are needed for it to be successful. Combining evidence-based guidance with practical templates, readiness tools, facilitation resources and worked examples, the toolkit provides a repeatable framework that can be applied across commissioning, primary care development and system collaboration.

The result is a practical resource that strengthens organisational capability and supports more consistent, safe and meaningful engagement with communities, people with lived experience, providers and system partners.

A strategic workforce framework developed to support coordinated, place-based primary healthcare workforce planning across Country Western Australia.

A system-level review examining primary care workforce stability and service access in Kalgoorlie to inform place-based commissioning and service design.

An independent review of a local street-based harm minimisation program for young people for local  council to support their future commissioning strategy

A region-wide needs assessment to inform planning and system improvement for at-home palliative care in the Brisbane South PHN region.

Beacon Strategies partnered with the Ipswich Community Youth Service (ICYS) to co-design the ICYS PIVOT Program, a specialised alternative learning program based in Ipswich and funded by the Department of Education. The program has been developed to support young people aged 10–16 who are in contact with the youth justice system or have needs that cannot be accommodated in a conventional school setting. Co-design and consultation were key elements of the project to ensure that the program design process was informed by young people with lived experience and stakeholders who have relevant knowledge and expertise.