Developing an engagement strategy to support Department of Health's reform rollout in Victoria.

Struber worked with DoH to develop a stakeholder engagement strategy that outlined the framework for how the Victorian Government would engage the advisory groups to support the Mental Health Reform roll out.

As part of the project, Struber developed organisational structures and approaches and identified an engagement model for how DoH and the advisory groups would work together. This included determining how to optimise the groups advisory capabilities, how information would flow between groups and creating a new reporting system to measure the implementation of the reform roll out.

Struber’s ability to act swiftly and seek opportunities resulted in work being completed to a high calibre, ready for the Minister for Mental Health to present in Cabinet.

Struber was also enlisted to develop a stakeholder mapping methodology and conduct the stakeholder research to identify the key movers and shakers in Victoria to join the advisory groups. These advisory groups will play a pivotal role in providing advice across the reform, and through the diversity of its members, help ensure that reform initiatives reflect the Royal Commission’s intent that inclusivity, equality and lived experience are at the core.

The stakeholder map delivered, documents and categorises a range of stakeholders, the cohort segments each stakeholder works in and their influence in the community.

Struber developed the Mental Health Division Stakeholder Engagement Strategy which included a wealth of items to support the delivery of the recommendations.  

As part of the project, Struber developed:

• Communications and engagement framework (which allows DoH to understand and acknowledge the project environment through four runways and identifies how all advisory groups and DoH work together)
• Advisory group structure and narrative (which identifies the advisory groups and how the groups will measure success and track the recommendation implementation roll out)
• Advisory group Terms of Reference (which details the roles and responsibilities of the advisory groups)
• Advisory group membership proposal (which identified key influencers to invite to join the advisory groups)
• Ecosystem stakeholder mapping and methodology (which allows DoH to refer to a stakeholder group database that demonstrates how the advisory groups and key influencers work together as part of a wider ecosystem)
• Proposed organisational chart (which demonstrates how the advisory groups interconnect and the reporting structure)
• Implementation plan (which provides dates for meetings, reporting deadlines and milestones).

Struber collaborated with the Department to develop a comprehensive and strategic Mental Health Division Stakeholder Engagement Strategy to support the Mental Health Reform rollout by the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System.

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By developing an engagement strategy for the Division, Struber ensured the Department was ready to implement the advisory groups and invite key influencers in Victoria to join in the reform rollout.

Additionally, Struber provided the Department with an extensive stakeholder database, consisting of 260 prospective influencers, made easily accessible and mined through Struber’s expert methodology.