Romsey / Lancefield Community Wellbeing Project - Expressions of Interest Survey

Cobaw Community Health is partnering with Swinburne University on a community wellbeing project in Romsey and Lancefield in 2019-21.

The project will involve partnering with local community members to identify and implement actions to improve local mental health and wellbeing.

There are many community-level improvements that can be made to improve local mental health and wellbeing. Your community may already be taking lots of actions, including good neighbour and befriending initiatives, community awareness raising, mental health first aid, peer support, helping people to navigate services, local transport schemes, etc. In this project we want to work with members of the Romsey and Lancefield communities to identify what is already being done and what else could be done to promote wellbeing and resilience in these communities.  

The project is being run in three rural Victorian communities – Kilmore, Heathcote and Romsey/Lancefield. Good ideas that are identified in one area may be transferable to other areas.

What will happen?

Working with the community, facilitators from Swinburne University will guide a process that looks like this:

·         Find interested people and groups

·         Ask what already happens here?

·         Show what other rural communities are doing and what works

·         Design the change we want to achieve. By what community activities?

·         Decide how to do this and with what partners?

We are seeking interested people who live, work, volunteer and care in the Romsey and Lancefield communities to come together as a group for four action planning workshops. The group will produce an action plan. We will hold three community events to raise awareness and share the results.

You may participate as an individual community member, or as a representative of a local service, community group, organisation or business.

Whether you are interested in participating in the workshops and development of the action plan, or would just like to be kept informed about the project, please complete this short expression of interest survey.

This is also a research project, so participants will be asked to complete an evaluation survey at the beginning and end of this project. We will also produce a series of digital stories with some selected participants, to promote the process and evaluate its success.

Please note that your details will be shared with the project team at Swinburne University.