Community Engagement Consultant | Jinx Consulting

Community Engagement & Co-design

Supporting communities and health services to connect, collaborate and create meaningful change.

Healthy communities are built through genuine partnership. We help organisations engage with communities, understand lived experience and design public health initiatives that are responsive, equitable and grounded in local knowledge. Our work brings together community voices, evidence and practical strategies to strengthen health outcomes and improve access to services.

Whether you’re planning a new health initiative, evaluating an existing program, or navigating complex community needs, we support you to create engagement processes that are respectful, inclusive and effective.

How Jinx Consulting can help

Our key Community & Public Health Engagement services

We work with communities and stakeholders to design engagement initiatives that are inclusive, evidence-informed, and culturally responsive. Our approach ensures that public health programs reflect lived experiences and local priorities, while fostering collaboration and meaningful participation. Our process typically includes:
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Community engagement and consultation

Strong engagement creates stronger outcomes. We design and deliver community engagement processes that are culturally responsive, safe and accessible. Our work includes:
  • Community consultation planning and facilitation
  • Engagement with priority populations and diverse communities
  • Lived-experience and peer-informed methods
  • Surveys, focus groups and interviews
  • Community workshops and codesign activities
  • Reporting and engagement summaries that inform decision-making
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Public health engagement and communication

Clear, targeted communication is essential in public health. We help organisations connect with communities through messages that are trustworthy, evidence-informed and easy to understand. Our services include:
  • Public health communication planning
  • Health promotion strategies
  • Health literacy content development
  • Behaviour-change communication
  • Culturally tailored resources
  • Engagement approaches that support prevention and early intervention
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Co-design and lived-experience collaboration

Communities are experts in their own lives. We lead co-design processes that bring together community members, service providers and decision-makers to create practical, people-centred solutions. This includes:
  • Co-design workshops and co-creation processes
  • Experience mapping and service journey insights
  • Identifying barriers, enablers and community priorities
  • Testing ideas and prototyping service improvements
  • Facilitating shared decision-making across partners
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Engagement for place-based and community-led initiatives

Place-based approaches work because they respond to local strengths, challenges and aspirations. We support organisations and partnerships working in community-led or cross-sector initiatives. We provide:
  • Place-based engagement and collaboration frameworks
  • Multi-agency facilitation and partnership support
  • Local data and insight gathering
  • Mapping community assets, needs and opportunities
  • Practical planning for local action

Co-designing solutions with our communities

Gaining local knowledge and place-based insights to create programs that truly work.

Our Community and Public Health Engagement approach

A respectful, inclusive process for building trust, understanding local needs and supporting meaningful participation.

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Understand

We begin by learning about the community, the public health context and the people most affected by the issue. This includes considering local strengths, barriers, lived experience and the broader social and service environment.

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Connect

We identify and engage the right stakeholders, community members and partner organisations. Our approach is designed to create accessible opportunities for participation and ensure a broad range of perspectives can be heard.

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Co-design

We work alongside communities and stakeholders to shape practical responses, messages and initiatives. This helps ensure activities are relevant, culturally appropriate and grounded in the realities of the people they are intended to support.

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Strengthen

We bring together insights, feedback and evidence to refine the approach and support stronger outcomes. This may include improving participation, strengthening partnerships, informing service design or guiding future public health action.

Build stronger engagement with the communities you serve

Whether you are planning a public health initiative, community consultation, co-design process or stakeholder engagement program, Jinx Consulting can help you develop an approach that is practical, inclusive and responsive to local needs.

Complete the contact form or call us to discuss how we can support your next engagement project.

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(03) 7053 1857

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