Growing Brimbank
Growing Brimbank was designed to facilitate local government and community action to lift health and education outcomes across the life course in the disadvantaged city of Brimbank in the west of Melbourne, Australia.
This collaborative, place-based systems approach recognised the complex interactions between the social and physical environment that affect health status, access and outcomes, and the need to engage the community as principal partners in order to enable systemic and sustainable change.
Using nationally or locally replicable data, the Growing Brimbank foundational reports can be repeated over time and place. They provide the baseline for determining best value investments and for informing policy frameworks and service models to implement and sustain change both locally and for other similar communities. Together the reports provide the resources and ‘tool kit’ for:
- understanding the evidence of risk factors affecting the foundations for well-being and prosperity
- identifying system failure points
- accessing information about the capacity and assets on which to build prevention and early intervention strategies
- framing the opportunities for risk mitigation
- making decisions about the leverage points where the best evidence of ‘what works’ can be effectively applied to address or reduce the impact of those multifactorial issues and risk factors.
