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Climate change resilience
Hot Spots: piloting cross-sector collaborations – supporting vulnerable communities to build resilience to heatwave. Aligned to enliven’s strategic priorities, The Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation (LMCF) focuses funding and effort on building community resilience to withstand the social and health impacts of climate change. In 2018, LMCF worked with Emergency Management Victoria and the Victorian Council…
Obesity prevention
enliven facilitates the South East Prevention Leadership Group (SEPLG)which aims to apply systems thinking and collective impact approaches to identified health prevention priorities. Key partners in this work include local Councils and health service providers in south eastern Melbourne. Obesity was determined to be the highest priority for collective action by this group. enliven is working with…
Mental health and youth resilience
In defining mental health there is an emphasis on resilience. Resilience refers to the ability to adapt to stress and adversity. In recent years, due to its potential influence on health, wellbeing and quality of life, resilience has become a major focus of interest for researchers, policymakers and practitioners working in the area of mental…
Prevention of family violence
The Preventing Violence Together Strategy, led by Women’s Health in the South East (WHISE), outlines the collective approach to supporting women and children across Southern Metropolitan Region (SMR) to live a life free from violence. The Strategy was developed by a Steering Committee and driven by a series of Community of Practices (COP). enliven is…
Vulnerable and diverse communities
enliven embraces diversity in all its forms, including the dimensions of race, culture, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age and physical abilities. enliven works with a variety of member and stakeholder organisations to promote and strive for service access equity and service coordination for identified vulnerable populations in our region. These include but are…
Healthy workplaces
enliven acknowledges workplaces as a setting that can have profound impacts on the physical, mental, economic and social wellbeing of employees. We actively encourage members and local partner organisations to join us in registering with the Achievement Program – a legacy of Healthy Together Victoria that uses evidence-based benchmarks to guide settings in promoting the…
Early Intervention and Integrated Care
For many years enliven’s Early Intervention and Integrated Care Alliance (EIIC) has run supported networking and information sharing opportunities for aged and community services funded by the Home and Community Care (HACC), Community Health and other state and commonwealth programs. With the aged care reforms and the introduction of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)…
Neutral partnerships
As a neutral broker, enliven is best placed to promote and build effective partnerships in achieving the delivery of common goals. enliven sees its role as a neutral broker in: Leading positive change Connecting ideas, people and organisations in order to help clarify objectives and achieve collective impact outcomes Capacity building, communicating, facilitating, organising/coordinating, managing…
Past projects
enliven adopts a place-based approach to addressing the broad range of social determinants impacting our communities’ health and wellbeing. As a result, we have been privileged to work with an equally broad and diverse array of service providers, organisations, groups and communities to deliver prevention activities. Most of our initiative focus on system change and…