We were engaged by Acacia Ridge Community Support Inc (ARCSI) to co-design a service model of community-based antenatal care coordination for the Acacia Ridge and nearby communities. A few weeks ago, we proudly presented the findings of this service design process at a workshop led by ARCSI and attended by a range of interested stakeholders.

Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of software company Atlassian, recently spoke to an audience at TEDxSydney about his fear of being exposed as an imposter. We take a look at the three important leadership lessons for leaders of organisations in the social services or communities sectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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?

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.