Improving Access to Primary Healthcare Among Injecting Drug Users in Redfern - Sydney South West Area Health Service
This project illustrates how a community-based needle and syringe program (NSP) improved access to primary healthcare and addressed the unmet health needs of injecting drug users.

Can't Hear, Hard to Learn - Greater Southern Area Health Service
This partnership program informs and educates, screens and treats Aboriginal communities about Otitis Media.

Caring for Moulamein and District Families - Greater Southern Area Health Service
Promoting health and well being in the community through assessment and targeted programs.

Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Rock and Water Program with Rural Adolescent Males - North Coast Area Health Service
An anger management program to engage rural adolescent males that they perceive as useful and that leads to positive behavioural changes that are noticed by parents, family and teachers.

Active Support Model for People with Disabilities Living in the Community - Northern Sydney Central Coast Area Health Service
The Active Support Model incorporates systematic planning of activities and staff training, enabling people with disabilities to actively participate in everyday activities by focusing on provision of direct support.

Nutrition Ready To Go - North Sydney/Central Coast Area Health Service; Nutrition Department Gosford Hospital.
The Nutrition Ready to Go at Out of School Hours (NRG @ OOSH) manual is an innovative, creative and practical food and nutrition manual to meet the expressed needs of the OOSH sector.

Establishment of an Express Community Care Centre - North Coast Area Health Service
Program to reduce variability in wait times for non-urgent ED presentations and increased access to home-based care options.

Faces of Illawarra - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
The project involved taking 5000 photographs of people from all walks of life who live and work in the community to form a major exhibition for public display.

Managing the Patient, not the Admission - South East Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
The Community & Outpatient Nutrition Extended Care Team (CONECT) was established following critical evaluation of current acute hospital based dietetic practice and identification of factors contributing to poor patient compliance with nutritional therapy post discharge.

ComPacks Program Annual Meeting - NSW Health
This meeting was held for health staff and community care staff to provide feedback and to discuss the issues and development of policies relevant to the ComPacks program.

Kings Cross Youth at Risk - South East Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
The Kings Cross Youth at Risk Pilot Project was established in 2005 at Kirketon Road Centre as a coordinated interagency early intervention strategy for young people.

La Perouse Aboriginal Community Health Centre - South East Sydeny Illawarra Area Health Service
The La Perouse Aboriginal Community Health Centre provides health care for the local Aboriginal community.

Fear and Shame: Exploring Mental Health Issues and Associated Stigma - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
The play “Fear and Shame” explores themes of mental illness and stigma within the Macedonian community. The theatre based approach was seen as one of the most culturally appropriate and widely accessible methods to address these issues to all members of the community.

Collaborative Care Model for Newly Arrived Refugee Families - South Eastern Sydney Illawara Area Health Service
A GP-Hospital collaborative care model to provide routine comprehensive health assessment and follow up to all newly arrived refugees.

Driving Change in Mental Health - South West Area Health Service
The clinical redesign of community mental health in one of the sectors of SWAHS was identified as an area for improvement due to issues in service capacity. This was impacting on length of stay (LOS) of the inpatient unit as well as the number of clients seen by the service.

Connecting the Community - South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Area Health Service
The Connecting the Community program aims to improve access for children living in Aboriginal communities to primary health and continuing care services.