Louise Juracich
Community Programs Manager at Your Community Health- Claim this Profile
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Credentials
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Fitness Instructor
Holmesglen Institute of Tafe
Experience
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Your Community Health
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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1 - 100 Employee
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Community Programs Manager
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Aug 2019 - Present
Responsibilities: Manage 3 teams and over 20 staff across Community Programs, Aboriginal Health, Needle and Syringe/Steroid Education programs. Manage 5 budgets and 14 funding streams and related performance targets and deliverables Lead, pursue and strengthen engagement with our partners including developing and managing strategic relationships through informal and formal mechanisms Apply social determinants of health and equity approaches to work collaboratively with priority population groups with a particular focus on Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. Lead the development and implementation and evaluation of organisation’s Prevention Plan, together with partners across Melbourne’s north-east Drive the development and implementation of YourCH’s Reconciliation Action Plan. Contribute to organisation’s approach to responding to and driving change across the health sector, including reforms in mental health and aged care. Achievements: Secured and managed over $1,000,000 in funding across 7 grants in one year - view videos below of some of these grant-funded initiatives Coordinated an external program review of the Needle & Syringe Program. Managing strategic relationships through informal and informal mechanisms, including 4 MOUs. Show less
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GenWest
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Australia
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Civic and Social Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Gender Equity Manager
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Nov 2016 - Aug 2019
Responsibilities: Lead the development and maintenance of collaborative partnerships and positive relationships with communities, organisations and individuals that work to build gender equity and respond to the key determinants of women’s health, safety and wellbeing. Oversee the effective management and delivery of health promotion programs including planning, implementation, monitoring and review of activities. Provide supervision and human resource management for team leaders within the health promotion stream. Provide effective leadership to ensure collaboration and integration across and between programs and services to achieve organisational goals and objectives. Achievements: Winner - 2019 Victorian Public Healthcare Chief Health Officer’s Award for Supporting Healthy Populations ‘Community champions take action’ Led the development of the 2017-2021 integrated health promotion plan, including leading an external consultation with partners Provided leadership to two regional partnerships, which included the development of two strategies, Preventing Violence Together 2030 and Action for Equity 2018-2022. Show less
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cohealth
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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300 - 400 Employee
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Community Partnerships Coordinator
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Jan 2015 - Nov 2016
Responsibilities:Advise on and support the ongoing development, review, evaluation and innovative design of initiatives within cohealth’s community and consumer partnerships plan.Deliver key activities, projects and internal and external events within cohealth’s community and consumer partnerships plan.Collaborate with existing advisory members and other relevant stakeholders to develop, implement and evaluate appropriate consumer/community governance structures and other participatory mechanisms.Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, including partner organisations, consumers and community members, consumer representative bodies, and other staff, including through provision of support to internal and external working groups.Achievement:Developed a training video for health professionals on female circumcision,in partnership with community members, staff and a production coordinator. Show less
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Health Promotion Team Leader
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Oct 2011 - Jan 2015
Responsibilities:Manage the organisation’s health promotion program.Provide supervision to Horn of Africa Community Worker and Casework Counsellor, lead staff undertaking health promotion programs, supervise students and volunteers. Undertake needs assessments including research and community consultation to identify health promotion priorities and inform area based population health planning. Contribute to the development of policy and provide health promotion leadership and capacity building to the whole organisation.Establish partnerships with relevant organisations and facilitate collaborative action.Achievements:Responsible for writing and leading the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the organisation’s Integrated Health Promotion Plan 2013-17, accounting for the program's annual budget.Initiating and participating in an award-winning research partnership with the University of Melbourne for Listening to North Yarra Communities about female genital cuttingFestival Director of a community event, managing a budget of $30,000 and a partnership of eight stakeholder agencies and community members.Providing management to successful local projects such as the Healthy African Catering business, the Yarra Women’s Interfaith Network and the Young African Women’s Leadership program.Developing and implementing program planning and evaluation guidelines.Delivering training sessions on evaluation and program logic.Writing policies and procedures, including the Sustainable Purchasing Policy. Show less
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Support Worker
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Apr 2011 - Jan 2012
Responsible for providing support for adult residents with psychiatric disabilities through psychosocial rehabilitation within a family and carer sensitive framework. . Responsible for providing support for adult residents with psychiatric disabilities through psychosocial rehabilitation within a family and carer sensitive framework. .
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Project Officer
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Apr 2010 - Aug 2011
Responsibilities: Plan, implement and coordinate strategic projects. Achievements: Undertaking a comprehensive program review, which lead to extensive investment and capital improvement of the drop-in Women’s House. Evaluating the effectiveness of a Case Management Framework for people experiencing chronic homelessness and disadvantage. Producing and coordinating quarterly outcomes reporting for the Board of Management. Completing an organisational Diversity Plan. Coordinating implementation of new Aged Care model (Active Service Model). Show less
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Merri Health
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Australia
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Hospitals and Health Care
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200 - 300 Employee
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Project Officer
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Aug 2009 - Feb 2010
Responsible for the rollout of a health promotion quality improvement initiative (clinical governance and strategic planning) across primary health organisations (including Maori organisations) in New Zealand. Responsible for the rollout of a health promotion quality improvement initiative (clinical governance and strategic planning) across primary health organisations (including Maori organisations) in New Zealand.
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Public Health Project Officer
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Jul 2008 - Jul 2009
Responsible for policy and state-wide coordination of the Aboriginal Health Promotion and Chronic Care Partnership (AHPACC). Strategic input into a $1.6 million Victorian Government initiative (Strengthening Primary Health Care Initiative). Coordinated the revision and implementation of the Aboriginal Health Promotion Short Course, including co-delivering the course. Responsible for policy and state-wide coordination of the Aboriginal Health Promotion and Chronic Care Partnership (AHPACC). Strategic input into a $1.6 million Victorian Government initiative (Strengthening Primary Health Care Initiative). Coordinated the revision and implementation of the Aboriginal Health Promotion Short Course, including co-delivering the course.
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Bass Coast Community Healthy Service
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San Remo, Victoria
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Community Services Coordinator / Health Promotion Coordinator
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Oct 2004 - Dec 2007
Community Services Coordinator: Promotion to manage the multi-disciplinary Community Services Team of eight staff across five program areas (aged care, disability, children, community development and health promotion) Managed programs and program budgets, performance and service delivery targets. Responsible for health promotion coordination. Health Promotion Coordinator Responsibilities: Coordinated and provided health promotion programs. Coordinated the organisation’s health promotion program and budget, including stakeholder consultation, needs analysis, planning, implementing, evaluating, reporting and capacity building. Member of the South Coast Primary Care Partnership Health Promotion Working Group and the Bass Coast Transport Connections Committee. Performed service coordination/intake duties. Achievements: Responsible for writing and leading the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the BCCHS Integrated Health Promotion Plan 2006-09, accounting for the program's annual budget. Conducting an extensive evaluation of a 3 year community development project in an area of high disadvantage in regional Victoria, which was published for 5 years as a best-practice case study on an Australasian program planning website. Partnering in developing an accessibility map, with a published article in a state-wide health promotion newsletter Formed and coordinated 2 pramwalking groups. Coordinated the Pitstop Program, a men’s health screening program. 7 articles published in the local media. Coordinating the San Remo Active Women’s Forum and involved in coordinating multicultural festival and Healthy Ageing expo Writing 2 policies and procedures for health promotion and occupational health and safety and developing and implementing an organisational Program Planning Guide. Show less
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City of Whittlesea
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Australia
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Government Administration
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500 - 600 Employee
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Health Promotion Officer
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Feb 2004 - Aug 2004
Implementing the Council’s community health promotion plan, including programs such as Pramwalking Groups and the Walking School Bus. Coordinating the organisation’s corporate health program. Implementing the Council’s community health promotion plan, including programs such as Pramwalking Groups and the Walking School Bus. Coordinating the organisation’s corporate health program.
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Project Officer
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Sep 2001 - Feb 2004
Secretariat for the Ministerial Advisory Committee on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases.Writing ministerial briefings, correspondence and speeches.Updating 2 state-wide health promotion publications, Safe Sex and STIs. Strategic input into a new state-wide multicultural HIV/AIDS serviceCoordinating the launch of the renovated Positive Living CentreAccrediting a pre- and post-test counselling course for health professionals with the Victorian Registration and Qualifications Authority. Show less
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Project Officer
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Apr 2001 - Sep 2001
Secretariat for the Victorian Advisory Committee on Infection Control. Updated state-wide infection control guidelines for beauty therapists, hairdressers, tattooists and acupuncturists.
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Administrative Officer
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Nov 2000 - Apr 2001
Assisted with the implementation of legislation for smoke-free dining, restricted point of sale advertising and infringements to tobacco retailers for sales to minors.
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Fernwood Fitness
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Australia
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Wellness and Fitness Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Fitness Instructor
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Nov 1998 - Feb 2001
Conducted fitness assessments and developed personalised exercise programs, instructed group exercise classes (BodyPump and Spinning). Conducted fitness assessments and developed personalised exercise programs, instructed group exercise classes (BodyPump and Spinning).
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Education
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2003 - 2008
Monash University
Masters, Public Health -
2000 - 2000
Melbourne University
Graduate Diploma, Medical Anthropology -
1995 - 1999
Melbourne University
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science
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