Our blog
We believe in sharing the knowledge and learnings we capture through our work with people and organisations across the health and social services sectors.
Our blog consists of thoughtful and practical content and insight across a range of topic areas that aims to better enable people and organisations to plan, design, implement and evaluate their work.
Applying a logic model to your funding application
Here we cover the importance of service/project design when presenting an argument to fund one of your new bright ideas. The biggest thing holding many organisations back in being successful for grant funding or tenders is not including a clearly outlined service or project model in their application.
The locally available service mix to enhance the coordination of support services for pregnant women
Today's blog post is going to cover a piece of work we are currently doing in collaboration with Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc! For those not familiar with what 'service mapping' is, it is essentially a stocktake of available services in the local community to better understand what is available.
Beacon getting to work in Acacia Ridge
Midway through this year, we were engaged by Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc. to complete a community needs assessment and service design project focussing on the prenatal period as a key time to influence the trajectory of one's lifelong health and prosperity.
The intersection between housing, homelessness and mental health in a rural/remote setting
Local Issues, Local Solutions' highlighted the vast differences between rural/remote settings and urban settings in relation to a variety of mental health and housing indicators in addition to anecdotal feedback from local service providers.
The intersection between mental health and homelessness
At a superficial level it is easy to suggest that a string of poor decisions has ultimately lead to the deterioration of an individual’s or family’s housing situation. However, it could be argued straight off the bat that the ability to truly ‘choose’ a life trajectory is largely influenced by a range of factors...
The link between incarceration and homelessness
Which risk factors increase the likelihood of someone that is homeless entering the corrections system or someone in the corrections system becoming homeless? What are the options to reduce incarceration and recidivism in the homeless population?
Beacon boys do co-design in Northern NSW
It's been a busy couple of months here at Beacon HQ but we thought it might be good to share a tale from our travels.
Innovation, diffusion and the dancing guy
In creating social impact that is big enough to really make a difference, diffusion is what we need. This requires big-picture thinking about the context, not just the innovation itself. Most importantly, it means being authentic and genuine, finding a role for those people who are vital for diffusion to take place – the innovators and early adopters.
In utero experiences shape who we are, what we become. Revisiting 'Barker Hypothesis'.
‘The 9 Months That Made You” was released in 2011 and featured the late British scientist David Barker, pioneer of ‘Barker Hypothesis’ and contributor to the overarching concept of ‘fetal programming’.