Tools
Tools
Curran, L 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6371-2975,
2026.
Sharing of knowledge & increasing empowerment - “no surprise that a program shaped and designed by community is working”? Final study and evaluation report of the health justice partnership – Bagaraybang bagaraybang mayinygalang (BBM): empowering & alleviating: a health justice partnership (HJP).
Nottingham: Nottingham Law School.
Preview |
Text
2562759_Curran.pdf - Published version Download (2MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This co-designed evaluation of a health justice partnership between Hume Riverina Community Legal Service and the Albury Wodonga Aboriginal Health Service occurring over three years was conducted by Nottingham Trent University (NTU) and examines the effectiveness of the health justice partnership. Dr Liz Curran from Nottingham Law School (NLS) at NTU, met annually (2023-2025) with Aboriginal people, counsellors, doctors, nurses, financial counsellors, drug and alcohol workers, financial counsellors, psychologists and other people who work with the local Aboriginal community. Dr Curran also gathered feedback from the lawyers in the program and the managers who run each of the health justice partnership.
The focus in the ‘Official’ Final Report is on the consistent practice that is evidenced, which when combined, have worked over the three years of the service project. This report unpacks and explains in some detail what the data indicates is good and effective practice. This is because often it is through adopting multiple strategies that are interdependent, if not co-dependent, that aspects such as self-referrals, trust, disclosure and confidence emerge. There is a linking up of different parts of the puzzle for a complete picture of what effective service delivery to better support under-served populations, in this case, members of the Aboriginal community look like. To illustrate the point, it is clear based on the overall data across the different tools used to extract the data that there is a connection between visibility of staff on site and referrals, as well as extended reach into the Aboriginal community. Similarly secondary consultations, lead to increased trust of non-legal supports which in turn lead to borrowed trust in clients of those support services. A good experience, respectful treatment, the sense of being listed to and heard make members of the community prepared to suggest that friends and family link into the legal team, when previously the data at service start-up suggested a reticence to do so.
Part D. draws final summary conclusions returning to the aims and objectives of the BBM Health Justice Partnership. These conclusions are shaped directly by the data, tested and verified for rigor across multiple tools.
Part E. examines and extracts the best and most effective practice insights from the data to inform and shape future legal assistance service delivery and changes in practice and policy and funding more universally.
Part F. contains the recommendations. These also appear throughout the report under the relevant headings to explain the context and how they have been informed by the relevant data.
This 2025 Final report does not reinvent the wheel, as people can refer to the earlier reports (including the Reports to Aboriginal Community 2023 and 2024) to avoid repetition but rather reports on data from the 2025 study and comparisons and progression since the BBM’s project start-up.
| Item Type: | Research report for external body |
|---|---|
| Description: | Commissioning body: Upper Murray Family Care |
| Creators: | Curran, L. |
| Publisher: | Nottingham Law School |
| Place of Publication: | Nottingham |
| Date: | January 2026 |
| ISBN: | 9781738510016 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.2139/ssrn.6110027 DOI 2562759 Other |
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Law School |
| Record created by: | Laura Borcherds |
| Date Added: | 27 Jan 2026 10:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2026 10:32 |
| Related URLs: | |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/55133 |
Actions (login required)
 |
Edit View |
Statistics
Views
Views per month over past year
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
