Equity CoLab Webinar: Context is Everything: A Tale of Two Local Integrated Service Initiatives

  • John Mendoza and Marion Wand
  • USA

This Equity ColLab Webinar was hosted on 16 March 2025. Despite a decade of Australian health policies emphasising patient-centred care, care coordination, and integrated care with a focus on hospital avoidance, data suggests these policy objectives remain largely unrealised. While successful healthcare integration exists, it tends to be localised, limited in scope, or temporary, with sustained national-level change remaining elusive.

In this one-hour webinar, John Mendoza and Marion Wand explore how to bridge this implementation gap through the lens of two transformative local initiatives that achieved remarkable success in relatively short timeframes:

  • The Goonda Family-Centred Employment Program
  • The Alternative Pathways to Care intervention
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