Strategic Planning for Child and Family Services Alliances

Child and Family Services Alliances bring together community service providers to align goals, services and actions with priorities outlined by the Department of Health and Human Services. Meli (previously known as Bethany Community Support) provides executive support for the Alliances in the Barwon and South West regions.

Jen was asked in 2018 to plan and facilitate a workshop of Alliance partners to develop the 2018/9 Barwon Child and Family Services Alliance Plan priority outcomes, indicators and actions.
In 2020 Jen was asked to repeat the process for the next generation of the Barwon Alliance Plan, this time via an engaging, interactive online workshop.
In 2023 Jen returned to facilitate a planning workshop of Barwon Alliance Partners to to develop the 2023-26 Barwon Child and Family Services Alliance Plan goals, indicators and actions.

In 2021 Jen was asked to plan and facilitate the 2021-2024 alliance planning process for the South West Child and Family Services Alliance and used the workshop outputs to write the Alliance Plan.

In 2023, Jen facilitated and reported on a workshop involving Barwon Child and Family Services members to develop the Terms of Reference for a Panel to consider high risk, complex cases. The Panel was being set up to identify alternative pathways – and therefore break the cycle – for families who continually re-present to the Alliance member services.