Health Justice Partnerships

Health justice partnerships recognise people sometimes experience problems that affect their health that cannot be fixed by healthcare alone. For issues like poor quality housing, fines and debt, violence, abuse and neglect, the solutions sit outside the health system.

Health justice partnerships connect healthcare and legal assistance to give people access to help for their problems when and where they need it.

Health justice partnership in action

Pregnancy and the post-partum period represent increased risk of family violence. Council-run Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services have been identified as a place where mothers often feel safe disclosing their experience of family violence, making them an important service for early intervention. Southside Justice has partnered with the City of Port Phillip to pilot a health justice partnership targeting new mothers experiencing family violence.