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Partnerships
Partnerships
At the core of our work, collaboration is key. BCHS works closely with a range of partners to
create change at scale by coordinating efforts, listening to and being directed by community
need and pooling resources.
The partnerships that the BCHS Health Promotion team work with include, but are not limited to:
Within CoGB region
BCHS internally
Bendigo District Aboriginal Cooperative (BDAC)
Bendigo Health
Bendigo FoodShare
Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health (CERSH)
City of Greater Bendigo
Community & Neighbourhood houses
headspace Bendigo
Heathcote Health
Loddon Mallee Public Health Unit
Sports Focus
Thorne Harbour Health
Womens Health Loddon Mallee
Coliban Water
Outside CoGB region
Achievement Program
Cancer Council
Oral Health Victoria
Healthy Eating Advisory Service
Alliance of Rural and Regional Community Health – Health Promotion Community of practice
Alliance of Rural and Regional Community Health
BCHS is a proud member of the Alliance of Rural and Regional Community Health (ARRCH).
Established in 2022, the focus of ARRCH is to reduce health inequity in rural and regional Victoria
by addressing the social determinants of health.
Currently led by BCHS, we are an active participant in the ARRCH Health Promotion Community
of Practice (CoP). The CoP provides health promotion leaders with peer support, networking and
opportunities for advocacy and collaboration with a focus on Department of Health CH-HP
funded activities.
As the CoP operates at an upstream level, no funding is shared between ARRCH partner
organisations. However, the CoP offers a strategic platform to advance health and wellbeing by
learning together, aligning, and integrating our collective health promotion knowledge and
actions to achieve population and systems level change.
