Web Links
GENERAL WEBSITES
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
State Library of NSW Health Information Service
Community Builders NSW
An interactive electronic clearing house for everyone involved in community level social, economic and environmental renewal including community leaders, community and government workers, volunteers, program managers, policy makers, academics, youth and seniors.
Richmond Valley Public Transport information
North Coast Area Health Service provides Non Emergency Health Related Transport (NEHRT) assistance for transport disadvantaged people needing to access health care. Eligibility criteria apply and each request is assessed on an individual basis. Contact: Health Transport Unit Ph. 1300 552 961
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WEBSITES INCLUDING TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS
Dept. for Victorian Communities - established to ensure government services are delivered in a way that supports and strengthens communities in Victoria while promoting cultural change in the Victorian public sector.
http://www.dvc.vic.gov.au/
International Association for Public Participation focuses on practical tools and best practice.
http://www.iap2.org
Young people are particularly at risk today as they try to make sense of their lives in a society in which they are often isolated and poorly educated. They struggle to find constructive communities in which they are valued and expected to make a meaningful contribution. How can we awaken and cultivate their hope and commitment? How can we sustain it? These questions compelled Bliss Browne, an Episcopal priest, mother and former corporate banking executive, to create Imagine Chicago in 1992.
www.imaginechicago.org
Open Space Technology is a tool for large group facilitation and supports systems of all sizes in navigating and adapting to the major changes we all experience. It is a tool for stakeholder consultation that has been used in Australia with Aboriginal communities.
http://www.change-management-toolbook.com/
Lyn Carson's is a long-standing practitioner of community participation. Her website provides easy access to information which individuals, groups or organisations can use to enhance citizens' involvement in the activities of local, state or federal government.
http://www.activedemocracy.net/
A guide list of resources in the area of Community Development compiled by the staff of the UNSW Biomedical Library to support teaching, learning and research within the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine UNSW.
http://info.library.unsw.edu.au/biomed/guides/comdev/comdevlink.html
Consumers' Health Forum (CHF) is a national organisation providing a voice for health consumers.
http://www.chf.org.au/our_chf/index.asp
Website of the Sustainable Communities Network whose main goal is to identify and develop effective interventions and key research priorities to address health inequalities in Australia's rural, remote and Indigenous communities that are based on sustainability.
http://www.sustainable.org/