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Working towards a healthier future for Latrobe Valley

The Latrobe Health Assembly is a community-led organisation that seeks to positively shape and facilitate new ways of working to improve health and wellness in Latrobe. This is achieved by facilitating and enabling collaboration among the local communities, local organisations and state-wide agencies and government.

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our strategy

How we work for Latrobe

Co-design

We bring community together to create meaningful change.

Evidence based

All Assembly initiatives come from a strong evidence based background.

Successes are not guaranteed

We trial initiatives, not all will work; we learn from these.
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Focused on success

We trial initiatives with the goal of success and further expansion.

We share our work

We share what we learn as we trial new initiatives.

Evaluated

All Assembly initiatives undergo extensive evaluations for further expansions.
What are we looking at?

Our four focus areas

The Latrobe Health Assembly has four key priority and focus areas which underpin all initiatives and activities. As voted by the full Assembly, the priority areas for 2020 are:

Mental health

We are committed to fostering and maintaining good mental health in Latrobe. This includes, but is not limited to, projects helping people to receive better care, support and community understanding for their mental health issues.

Early childhood development and learning

We are committed to providing all children in Latrobe with a strong start to life. This includes, but is not limited to, projects related to early childhood development, equity, education and overall wellbeing.

Community connectedness and vulnerability

We are committed to creating opportunities for everyone in Latrobe to connect and participate. This includes, but is not limited to, activities focussed on social connection, pride of place, marginalised communities, accessibility, inclusion and safety. 

Active living

We are committed to encouraging and enabling healthy, active lifestyles in Latrobe. This includes, but is not limited to, projects relating to physical activity, food security, nutrition and related service provision.

Do you have a concept that could improve the health and wellbeing of Latrobe?

We are always seeking innovative concepts from community. You don’t need to be an expert, just someone with a creative solution to a problem. If that’s you, click the link below and send us your concept.

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