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Growing Brimbank
A long-term partnership between Brimbank City Council and
the Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC) at Victoria
University to lift the health and education outcomes of the
Brimbank community
Arrest declining early
childhood development
indicators
Tackle health and
development in early
life to reduce long-term
health costs
Reduce the prevalence
of chronic disease
Build people’s capability
to make healthier
choices
Build local capacity
to develop sustainable
solutions to chronic
health conditions
Brimbank Council is seeking:
• $200,000 to further develop and test innovative Maternal and Child Health
outreach services.
• $100,000 to develop programs to encourage leisure time physical activity
across the life course in community facilities and open space.
Brimbank City Council
Telephone
9249 4000
Email
info@brimbank.vic.gov.au
Post
PO Box 70, Sunshine, VIC 3020
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The ask
Brimbank Council is looking for funding support for two key interventions, identified as fundamental game
changers in lifting the health and education outcomes for the Brimbank community.
Specifically, we are advocating for:
• $200,000 to further develop and test innovative Maternal and Child Health outreach services.
As a priority, we are developing an outreach approach to early years services to engage vulnerable children and
families. We will build upon our mobile Maternal and Child Health services to engage with families, when and
where they need access.
With support from government, the collaboration will measure the effectiveness and reach of an expanded
outreach model, so that we know what works to make a difference to children and families in Brimbank.
• $100,000 to develop programs to encourage leisure time physical activity across the
life course in community facilities and open space.
Working with the community and the AHPC, we will develop programs to encourage informal sports
and active recreation across the life course to include culturally diverse and disadvantaged communities.
Programs will boost the use of community facilities, parks and open spaces to build individual
capability for healthy activity and self-management.
With support from government, the collaboration will develop and test a range of targeted activities,
programs and strategies to engage the community and encourage physical activity.
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The cost of doing nothing
WE KNOW
the long-term
costs of health and social
disadvantage are significant
- and growing
WE KNOW
disadvantage
costs each level of government
significantly every year.
WE KNOW
the costs of
ambulance callouts, hospital
presentations and lengths of
stay are higher for people in
these communities.
WE KNOW
the disability
impacts of untreated diabetes,
including blindness, heart
complications and kidney failure,
add an enormous burden to an
already-stretched health system.
WE KNOW
people with
diabetes work less, with an
estimated loss of national
productivity of $807 million by
2030.
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WE KNOW
if we can reach
individuals early, with targeted
interventions, we can reduce the
massive long-term cost impacts of
ill-health in early years.
Australian Health
Policy Collaboration
Victoria University
PO Box 14428
Melbourne VIC 8001
Phone:
03 9919 1874
Email:
ahpc@vu.edu.au
Twitter:
@AHPC_VU
For more information on Growing Brimbank and
investment options, please contact:
Kath Brackett
Director, Community Wellbeing, Brimbank City Council
KathB@brimbank.vic.gov.au
03 9249 4005
www.brimbank.vic.gov.au
Rosemary Calder AM
Director AHPC
Rosemary.calder@vu.edu.au
03 9919 1875
www.ahpc.org.au
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The need
At risk families in Brimbank face a number of
disadvantages, which are often perpetuated through
generations.
Significant barriers for families include:
• difficulty in navigating services
• reduced access to early childhood education,
resulting from limited capacity to pay; lack of
transport; social isolation; and language barriers.
Poor outcomes in early childhood have an immediate
impact and may affect people in later life.
Chronic preventable conditions such as diabetes mellitus
affect people in Brimbank at much higher rates than
across Australia.
Many conditions share the same contributing risk factors
such as poor nutrition, low levels of physical activity,
smoking and obesity, coupled with socio-economic
disadvantage.
Investing in early years outreach services and physical
activity programs are proven prevention strategies.
In parts of Brimbank, early childhood development
indicators are getting worse.
By working together to invest in early childhood,
active living and better nutrition, we can improve
health and wellbeing outcomes and reduce health
costs now and in the long term.
How is
Growing
Brimbank
making a
difference?
Growing Brimbank is a long-term partnership
between Brimbank City Council and the
Australian Health Policy Collaboration (AHPC)
at Victoria University to lift the health and
education outcomes of the Brimbank community.
The collaboration has mapped disadvantage
and risk factors for poor health and education
outcomes, and is now ready to demonstrate
‘what works’ in this community, drawing on
evidence based practice and policy to design
and deliver priority interventions.
1 in 5 self-reported poor to fair health status
38
% above Australian rate
Approximately 1 in 5 children are
not developmentally on track
in physical health and well being
For diabetes: 8.8 per 100
population or 12,109 people.
63
% above Australian average
3
X
3 times poor English prociency
compared to the rest of Melbourne
11.1
% compared to Australia
2.6
%
Only 37% of children attend pre-school
48
% across Melbourne
7,800 or 1 in 5 children (24%) are living in families
with mothers with low educational attainment
1 in 11 children in their rst school year are
not on track in language and cognitive skills
of youth (15-24yrs)
are unemployed
1 in 3 females
aged 18+ years
estimated to
be obese
Don’t eat the recommended
amount of daily fruit & vegetables
Low birth weight babies
14
% above Australian rate
7.5
%
37
%
14.2
%
Children assessed as being
developmentally vulnerable
27.7
%
Higher hospitalisation rates for ambulatory
care sensitive conditions
eg. Adults type 2 diabetes, 0–14 yrs Asthma
Atlas of Health and Education risks and indicators (2014)
Brimbank
97
%
6
highest
TH
Measure the impact
against health and
education targets and
indicators and the
cost benet
A
B C
Developed The Collaboration
for a place based program
and long term observatory
over 20 years
Growing Brimbank
Select and apply evidence
based interventions
and activities
Designed the program
To lift health and education
outcomes for the community
of Brimbank.
Established the plan
Where we started ...
Goals & outcomes
How will we show this works?
What the program involves
School years
Early childhood
& youth transitions Family formation Prime years
Community collaboration
to develop coordinated
responses.
The Growing Brimbank program will
address local risk factors and
indicators aecting individual
capability for good health and
education outcomes, in four
streams across the lifecourse,
starting with early childhood.
Benet the
Brimbank
community
Inuence
National Policy
Higher than Melbourne at
15.2
%
lowest
2
ND
socio-economic
score in Melbourne
(IRSD Index
of Relative
Disadvantage)