Diversity
Diversity planning and practice aims to improve access to Commonwealth Home Support Programme ( CHSP ) and Home and Community Care Program For Younger Persons (HACC PYP ) clients who are marginalised or disadvantaged and to improve the capacity of the service system to respond appropriately to their needs.
Diversity planning and practice is designed to contribute to an equitable, accessible, person-centred, responsive and high-quality service system and ensures alignment to the National Diversity Framework:
* developing a system that is responsive to people’s needs
*improving every Australians health status and experiences.
Diversity Advisor (DA)
The Diversity Advisor (DA) role is designed to focus at a systemic, regional level on facilitating the implementation of diversity planning and practice.
CHSP/HACC PYP diversity planning and practice is underpinned by three core principles:
1. A desire to achieve equitable access to services by eligible people, regardless of their diversity or disadvantage.
2. The belief that effective service planning acknowledges a community, group and/or individual’s uniqueness and complexity of need, and is conducted in a manner that is respectful of each individuals characteristics, circumstances, preferences and goals and central to strategic planning and leadership
3. That diversity planning and practice is core business for all CHSP/HACC PYP funded services.
The program has a focus on five special-needs groups that may experience particular difficulty in gaining access to CHSP/HACC PYP services. The groups are:
- people from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
- people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds
- people with dementia
- care leavers
- people living in rural and remote areas
- people experiencing financial disadvantage (including people who experience or are at risk of homelessness).
Grampians Region Diversity Advisor – Sector Development Team
Mary Slater
Phone: (03) 533 891 28 Mobile: 0428 463 587 Email: MaryS@bchc.org.au
Diversity planning and practice has a particular focus on these groups and the different characteristics within and across them, including, but not limited to, diversity of age, sexual orientation, gender identity and socio-economic status.
The Diversity Advisor (DA) role is designed to focus at a systemic, regional level on facilitating the implementation of Diversity Planning and Practice.
Key Resources 2018:
Aged Care Diversity Framework – Aged Care Sector Committee Diversity Sub-group, December 2017
Australian Government – Aged Care Quality Agency
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Greater Dandenong profile builder for population data assistance click here
Demographic Resource Centre for population data assistance click here
The attached comprehensive list of resources and data has been compiled to assist organisations with Diversity planning and practice.
Diversity Planning and Practice Resources
The Diversity planning summary reports provide organisations with the opportunity to see what has been achieved in the first two years of diversity planning and with the opportunity to incorporate examples and recommendations in to their third year plans.
Diversity Planning Summary Central Highlands, June 2014
Diversity Planning Summary Gramps Pyrenees, May 2014
Diversity Planning Summary Wimmera 2014
The Grampians regional diversity plan informs the local approach to maximising access to services for the HACC special needs groups, inform the allocation of resources for improved service access and outcomes for diverse groups, and influence the diversity plans developed by individual HACC agencies.The triennial plan was reviewed in March 2014 with priority strategies and actions adapted to include retargeting and restructuring of existing resources.
Strengthening Diversity Planning and Practice – A guide for Victorian HACC Services 2011
Strengthening Diversity and Practice, Grampians Region Diversity Plan, May 2012
2010 Local government area Statistical Profiles – Grampians Region Collated LGA Statistical Profiles
Individual LGA Statistical Profiles
Ararat Ballarat Golden Plains Hepburn
Hindmarsh Horsham Moorabool Northern Grampians
Pyrenees West Wimmera Yarriambiack
Diversity News website:
Department of Health, Victoria