The Health and Wellbeing Service Framework

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The Health and Wellbeing Service Framework

• An integrated approach to service delivery

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Background to the Framework

• The creation of the Department of Education and
  Early Childhood Development (DEECD) in late 2007,
  brought together a range of health and wellbeing
  services for children and young people from birth
  to 18 years.
• The joining of these services under DEECD creates
  the opportunity to examine how they can work
  together more effectively to improve services for
  children, young people and their families.
• The development of the Framework involved an
  extensive consultation process including regional
  forums, DEECD regional leadership and program
  manager meetings and feedback from a wide range
  of key stakeholders, based on the Towards a
  Health and Wellbeing Service Framework discussion
  paper.
• The Framework is a Blueprint for Education and
  Early Childhood Development 2008 Year 2
  commitment, that progresses the Blueprint
  strategies.

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Progressing Blueprint reform strategies and the
life course approach
Every child thrives, learns and develops
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DEECD Health and Wellbeing Services

• The Framework focuses on DEECD partially or fully
  funded services that identify health and/or
  wellbeing as their core business and directly
  support children, young people and their
  families.

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The Health and Wellbeing Services Framework

• The Framework describes how DEECD health and
  wellbeing services can work in an integrated way
  to optimise children and young peoples health,
  wellbeing, learning and development outcomes.
• There are four key elements of the Framework
• 1. Common service delivery domains
• 2. Shared principles for service delivery
• 3. Stronger relationships and partnerships
• 4. Effective leadership.

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Element 1 - Common Service Delivery Domains

• The eight domains will help to services to
• clarify and articulate their core business
• identify services with which to build
  partnerships and referral practices
• identify service gaps and duplication and decide
  how to best use existing resources.
• The domains are
• Health promotion and primary prevention
• Population health monitoring for children and
  young people
• Early identification of risk vulnerability and
  need
• Early identification for children and young
  people at risk of compromised health and
  wellbeing
• Effective support, intervention and monitoring
  for those requiring complex responses
• Reducing barriers to learning and development

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Element 2 - Shared Principles for Service Delivery

• The eight shared principles create a shared
  language and platform for services to work
  together. The principles should underlie the work
  of all DEECD health and wellbeing services and
  become embedded in the guidelines, standards and
  daily work of these services.
• Universal access
• Focus on outcomes
• Evidence-based services
• Integrated approach to service delivery
• Child, youth and family centred practice
• Cultural competence
• Partnerships with family and community
• Commitment to service excellence

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Element 3 - Stronger relationships and
partnerships

• Smoother transitions between early childhood and
  school based services and links and partnerships
  among DEECD health and wellbeing services are
  needed to develop a coordinated and responsive
  service system for children and young people.
  This requires
• Working within existing governance structures
  and network groups to address priority health and
  wellbeing issues and development of service
  coordination practices
• Forging new partnerships and governance
  structures where required
• Strengthening partnerships with other relevant
  government, non government and community
  services, educators and families.

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Element 4 Effective Leadership

• Strong leadership and good governance is
  fundamental to successfully implementing the
  Framework
• Regional leaders, managers of DEECD health and
  wellbeing services and community leaders, should
  consider how they can champion the framework and
  drive its implementation in their area, building
  on existing work
• Health and Wellbeing Service Framework leadership
  teams can support this work.

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The Frameworks implementation will mean that
services will

• Better understand their roles and
  responsibilities and those of other services both
  locally and regionally
• Share a common vision, set of values and
  understanding with other DEECD health and
  wellbeing services
• Develop shared skills and knowledge that build
  their capability to work with children, young
  people and their families and effectively support
  their transition to another service as required,
• Build relationships with other DEECD and
  community-based health and wellbeing services and
  well as with families, educators, and relevant
  community services.

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Projects to support implementation of the
Framework

• A number of DEECD projects will support regions
  in implementing the Framework. These include
• Governance Demonstration Projects to develop and
  trial regional governance structures that reflect
  the Frameworks integrated approach. These
  projects will help inform implementation of the
  Framework across all nine regions.
• Exploring the possibility of developing a common
  data set and client record across multiple
  services. This will include investigating
  relevant data collection and IT systems, and
  mapping legislative requirements for sharing
  client information.
• Developing a Performance Measurement Framework to
  monitor and assess the difference health and
  wellbeing services are making to children and
  young peoples outcomes.

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• The Framework conveys a vision that is already
  being pursued across Victoria it supports this
  work and offers a common language and approach to
  further the development of a service system that
  supports children and young peoples health,
  wellbeing, learning and development outcomes.
• This is your Health and Wellbeing Service
  Framework its results will be seen in how you
  translate it to your context and use it to inform
  your work.

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Further information

• The Health and Wellbeing Service Framework
  Webpage
• www.education.vic.gov.au/hwsframework
• Email
• health.wellbeing.feedback_at_edumail.vic.gov.au