- Title
- Community collaboration beyond the red tape: complying without being constrained
- Creator
- Fisher, Karin; Squires, Kelly; Woodley, Ian
- Relation
- Collaborating in Healthcare: Reinterpreting Therapeutic Relationships p. 211-220
- Relation
- Practice, Education, Work and Society 11
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-806-8
- Publisher
- Sense Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Dealing with "red tape" is a daily occurrence for those involved in the community engagement program at the University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health (UONDRH). For the purpose of this chapter, the community engagement program refers to activities that have been specifically designed, fostered, organised and monitored by the UONDRH to enable health professional students to engage with people from the local community for mutually beneficial outcomes. All those involved in planning and participating in community engagement program activities need to ensure that all activities developed and implemented comply with funding parameters, protocols and policies. While necessary for the protection of the individuals and organisational entities involved, these funding parameters, protocols and policies can potentially constrain the design, implementation and monitoring of such activities. There is a danger that so many rules, so many regulations or so many requirements can be overwhelming. In this chapter, we explore some of the daily behind-the-scene situations where the community engagement program staff aim to comply with, but not be constrained by, protocols and policies as they design, organise and monitor community engagement activities. We focus on four action-based qualities that we identified as being important for this process. These are fostering connections, using imagination, being resourceful and ensuring vigilance.
- Subject
- community engagement programs; red tape; planning; protocols; policies; community health programs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339104
- Identifier
- uon:28178
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789463008051
- Language
- eng
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