Through a series of face-to-face co-design sessions, we gained many insights from a range of community members’ perspectives. These insights will directly inform the development of the Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SP-CAP) for the Cairns and Hinterland region.

Regional planning processes aim to build a PHN’s understanding of a particular health issue. Through targeted engagement with stakeholders, regional planning enables PHNs to prioritise activities for investment. This blog offers those working in PHNs 5 things to consider prior to commencing their next regional planning process.

Find out what we have achieved in the Community Advisory Group meetings for this project so far and the approach and outcomes of the April meeting, discussing the vision, purpose, implementation and governance of the Cairns and Hinterland region Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan.

Wondering what the SPCAP CAG meetings look like? This blog explores our Community Advisory Group meeting: co-design session 1. Within this meeting, we identified issues and ideas surrounding suicide in the Cairns and Hinterland region communities. The outcomes of this meeting have detailed in this blog so be sure to check it out.

We’re excited about all that is to come in 2021 and beyond for our team and our partner organisations, and being able to communicate all of this through an engaging and recognisable brand. We hope you like it as much as we do.

As a part of our ongoing engagement with Northern Queensland PHN to develop a Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan, we have distributed a survey that aims to engage a broader community to contribute to the development of this plan. Read this blog to find out how you can be involved.

We are inviting stakeholders from these communities to offer their thoughts and insights into the current state of suicide prevention in the Cairns and Hinterland region, and how it should look in the future to achieve better outcomes for the community. Read this blog to find out more about how to register and engage in these sessions!

At Beacon Strategies we've found that setting up consistent mechanisms for communicating with our client partners ensures we share our findings, progress, ideas approaches and concerns at the right times. As many of us work with both internal and external stakeholders, we thought sharing our insights on how we make this happen can help others broader than just a consultancy-type engagement.

Inspired by an article published by Pro Bono News and always being curious about how organisations set themselves up for success, the team here at Beacon Strategies asked ourselves a couple of big questions about what we think the challenges and opportunities that NFPs might expect to face in 2021 will be.