17 January 2025
CHF has recently received a grant from the Department of Health and Aged Care (DoHAC) to deliver two streams of activity aimed at empowering healthcare consumers, with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate the health system effectively and advocate for their own health needs.
CHF has been funded deliver a suite of activities to enhance and strengthen our internal capabilities, resources and systems in consumer engagement capacity building. We will co-develop online resources and toolkits to support healthcare consumers in their advocacy and establish and pilot a Healthcare Consumer Mentorship Program. Combined, these initiatives will enhance CHF’s organisational capacity to build robust advocacy skills among healthcare consumers.
As the second of two projects with a focus on people who experience health disadvantage, CHF will address a significant gap in accessible, high-quality preventative health literacy resources. We will do so by working with our Members, sector partners and people who are, or have, experienced health disadvantage to co-develop accessible, high quality online resources and identify and promote educational sessions on key preventive health literacy topics for healthcare consumers.
