1. Partnerships in Ethnic Aged Care By Kate Ling, HACC Project Officer, ECCV

2. Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria A peak body that was established in 1975 eccv advocates and lobbies all levels of government for ethno-specific welfare and community- based agencies for multicultural communities on improved aged care for seniors with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds

3. What is working together? “a relationship where two or more organisations with compatible goals, have a formal or informal agreement to work together in order to strengthen service delivery for older CALD community members” Forthcoming report: Karunatathna, Y, Radermacher, H and Feldman, S. August 2010 Practising Positive Partnerships in the Ethnic and Multicultural Community – Networking, Coordinating, Cooperating, Collaborating? Produced for ECCV by the Healthy Ageing Research Unit of Monash University

4. Benefits of working together 1. Combination of expertise 2. Community relationship 3. Partnerships = less duplication Cultural Aged CareLinguistic

5. Supporting access Pilot Project Pilot project – 2 years to December 2010 8 ethnic and multicultural organisations Supported Access workers provide support to CALD seniors in: –referral –assessment –care planning –service delivery Improves –culturally responsive services –client outcomes.

6. Key issues in partnerships 1.Embedding at all levels of organisation 2.Creating a sense of equity and trust 3.Clear roles and responsibilities 4.Working with limited resources PPP Research: -Benefits -Strategies -Definitions -Working with smaller ethnic groups

7. Practising Positive Partnerships Research report into partnerships in the ethnic and multicultural sector Healthy Ageing Research Unit, Monash University (HARU) In collaboration with ECCV & SCDN Launch 26 August, 2010 Networking, Coordinating, Cooperating, Collaborating?

8. Thank you! Multicultural Aged Care Services Directory www.eccv.org.au