Social insurer icare has teamed up with the Local Community Services Association (LCSA) to hold the annual Connecting Communities Conference 2017, aimed at helping diverse communities address social issues and build resilience.
The event will be held in Sydney on Sept. 18-20, and will bring together a range of local community leaders representing vulnerable communities from inner-city Sydney to tackle issues such as achieving inclusion, leadership in times of change and uncertainty, and building strong connected communities.
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The conference will feature Pentti Lemmetyinen, president of the International Federation of Settlement & Neighbourhood Houses, a global grassroots movement for social justice, who will talk about social justice issues, such as diversity and inclusion.
“Solutions to social problems often originate within local communities,” said Eugene McGarrell, icare’s general manager for health and community engagement. “We’ve partnered with the LCSA to explore the role we as a social insurer play in building stronger more connected communities. This partnership has great potential to create opportunities to co-design services with other NGOs and agencies, which drive safe and healthy workplaces, increase mental wellbeing in the workplace, and support sustainable return to work. By reconnecting injured workers with their community, we build their capacity and confidence to return to work through access to non-medical sources of support.”
Other keynote speakers include Dr Jackie Huggins, co-chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples; and Dr Tim Moore of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Centre for Community Child Health, and the University of Melbourne.
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