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Core Needs Assessment (CNA 2025-28) seeks community insights to identify health needs

Why is the Needs Assessment important?

The Needs Assessment is used to:

• Gain a better understanding of, and insights into the health needs and service gaps across our region
• Identify opportunities and options for actions that can be taken to address the identified needs and service gaps with the intention of improving the health needs of our region

The CNA provides an evidence base for the health needs and service gaps in our region. It provides the foundation for each project initiated by the PHN. At the beginning of any project the Needs Assessment should be used to identify the need or service gap it is addressing and to guide the outcomes of your project and measurements of its success.

For more information visit thephn.com.au/what-we-do/planning or reach out to the Planning Insights Performance and Strategy Team.

Workplace Update

All Staff Gathering ASG2024 a ‘Journey to Exceptional’

Examples of places you could take the torch… a local landmark, walking your dog, at the office, in your back yard! We are hoping to get a look at how vast our region is.
Keep an eye out for the torch coming to your office in the coming weeks! There will be one torch for each of our offices.

Your instructions
In your video, tell us who you are, where you are, what Aboriginal land are you on and what do you do at the PHN.

• 15 second videos (max) to be submitted no later than 1 August.
• Videos to be taken in landscape. To recreate the Olympic Torch Relay concept, we're asking you to Accept the 'torch' in your left hand and pass it off to your right at the end of the video. To achieve this, begin your video with your left hand holding the torch out of shot, and end your video by passing it to your right hand and finishing out of shot.
• Tips - Check that your audio is loud enough. You might need a friend to take your video!
• Submit your video into this folder by 1 August.

Your ASG Committee: Lorin Livingstone, Bec Leahy, Ellen Meinel, Amy Callinan, Ashleigh Kennewell, Phoebe James, Lisa Callipari, Blythe Scully, Scott Wood, Tom Synnott, Lexie Vazey, Alicia Wallace, Kelsie Rolfe.

Meet your LGBTQIA+ Ally Collaborative Members

What is an initiative the LGBTQIA+ collaborative is working on that you are excited about?

Supporting the PHN’s application for Pride in Diversity’s Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI). The AWEI stands as the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQIA+ workplace inclusion and is designed to gauge the overall impact of inclusion initiatives on organisational culture. I’m particularly interested in Visibility of LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace and PHN branded participation at community events