BCHS Annual Report 2025 - Report - Page 18
Reconciliation Action Plan
In December 2024 BCHS released its 昀椀rst Re昀氀ect
Reconciliation Action Plan. This then informed the
following actions:
• Development and promotion of knowledge and
awareness-raising events.
• Partnered with Dja Dja Wurrung to name the new
AOD Wellbeing facility Wanyanimbik Wayawan, which
means ‘昀椀nding myself (discovery not recovery)’.
• Partnered with Bendigo NAIDOC Committee and
Bendigo Reconciliation Committee to support local
events celebrating Aboriginal culture, heritage and
knowledge. Events also highlighted the importance
of truth telling, proactive anti-racism practices and
allyship.
• 150 sta昀昀 engaged in a range of structured cultural
learning opportunities.
• Many of our services partnered with Bendigo District
Aboriginal Coop and Njernda Aboriginal Corp to
improve the quality and e昀昀ectiveness of programs we
support community with.
• All activities were accompanied by Healing a
Community; the inspiring artwork created for the RAP
by Paige Charles-Morgan.
Family Violence
Wellbeing
This vital working group achieved the following:
This group looks internally to improve sta昀昀 wellbeing.
Over the year it:
• Organised activities for 16 days of gender activism,
including a re昀氀ective walk.
• Instigated a Fitness Passport for sta昀昀 to opt into for
discount gym memberships.
• Participated in the MARAM Alignment Community of
Practice organised through Centre for Non-Violence.
• Placed health promotion messages on the back of all
toilet doors.
• Increased completion rates for MARAM and family
violence training to ensure sta昀昀 can identify and
respond to family violence risk.
• Organised new chairs for the boardroom.
• Purchased and placed beautiful indoor plants in sta昀昀
areas.
• Provided targeted support and MARAM training to
various BCHS programs – this included identifying
and supporting men who use family violence, who are
accessing BCHS programs.
• Framed and hung the BCHS Culture Statement in all
sites.
• Placed suggestion boxes around sites to encourage the
sharing of wellbeing ideas.
• Increased the use of both the Family Violence
Information Sharing Scheme and Child Information
Sharing Scheme; BCHS received 39 requests under
the Family Violence and Child Information Sharing
Schemes, while BCHS sta昀昀 issued 112 through these
schemes to external agencies.
• Oversaw the wellbeing action plans of BCHS teams.
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