Over the past two days, the Southern Regional Alliance have hosted the "Connecting the Urban Village" conference at Morphettville Racecourse. The Salvation Army have been sponsors of the event, and we also hosted a breakout session called "Spirituality and Wellbeing" - about holistic approaches to service provision. Major Susan Wallace and Andrew Elvin from our Divisional Headquarters led the session.
Speakers from around the region, plus two from the USA, spoke at the conference. The Premier, the Hon Jay Weatherall was kind enough to open the conference, and spoke to the attendees about the government's priorities as outlined from their state strategic plan. Of specific interest to the forum were the priorities that spoke of affordable housing, health and 'every chance for every child', addressing the inequities that mean some children don't have the same opportunities as others.
Other breakout sessions included conversations around the social determinants of health, the measurement of empowerment and the joining together with indigenous people.
More information will be available soon via the conference website. It was worth being involved and we look forward to next year.
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