Health Voices Victoria’s first strategic plan: Stronger together 2025-2030

The way forward

Since October 2024, we’ve been developing our first strategic plan: Stronger Together 2025–2030. More than a year on, we’re thrilled to share it with you.

This plan sets out our vision, defines our purpose, and articulates the values we bring to life in our work. It identifies the priorities we will focus on over the next five years as we play our part as makers of change in partnership with others. It also shows how we intend to support and strengthen the momentum of the consumer movement, while honouring all that has come before.

We step forward now with great optimism and enthusiasm, ready to pursue the many opportunities emerging to advance community and lived experience engagement in Victoria and beyond.

Download the full plan  or View the 2-page Strategy summary

Our collaborators

It has taken us some time to shape this plan, because meaningful collaboration cannot be rushed. The plan is the tangible output of something much bigger and more difficult to put into words. The pages you’ll read represent the insights, reflections, experiences and hopes of more than 250 people who contributed throughout the process.

It was essential that we walked the talk of collaboration. We involved people from across the health sector and beyond, exploring what is working and the change that is needed in this space. We also wanted to openly explore the role that people saw we could play in this new era of engagement from the Centre’s home in the Institute for Health Transformation. We needed a plan that addressed the most pressing challenges and priorities shared by diverse communities and interest holders.

A heartfelt thank you to our co-design team, collaborators, and supporters. Together, we have created something far more powerful than any of us could have achieved alone.

Change is happening

Although the plan is being publicly released at the end of 2025, its development has been shaping change for many months now.

New relationships have been formed and strengthened. The broader Deakin team has rallied with growing excitement as the plan has evolved. We are seeing clearer alignment between our goals and those of the wider sector. And major projects are already being seeded to help us honour the commitments we have made to our community.

“It’s about learning together through engagement and partnering – building a common understanding of each other’s worlds and the constraints we operate within and navigating those as partners.” Co-designer

Join us

The title, Stronger Together, and weave motif you’ll see throughout the plan, reflects the deep collaboration behind its creation, but also our belief that transformational change in health and wellbeing will only happen when all interest holders come together as equals, combining lived and learned expertise.

If anything in the plan or video sparks interest, hope, curiosity or a sense of possibility, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact: Healthvoicesvic@deakin.edu.au