Thursday, April 30, 2015

Cockburn Integrated Health - A 3 Man Show

The first two weeks of my placement at Cockburn Integrated Health have not been so eventful...

A little about the organisation:
Cockburn Integrated Health is a unique nonprofit organisation that provides many health care services a platform to operate. It is a new organisation that was established in 2014 As a super clinic, they have many services:

  • General Practice
  • Pathology
  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Speech Pathology
  • Dietetics
  • Psychology
  • Child Health
  • Migrant & Refugee Services
  • Workplace Injury & Rehabilitation Services
  • Wound Management
  • Employment Services
  • Psychiatry
  • Orthopaedic Services
  • Curtin Clinics

With that, there is a lot of PR work that needs to be done! 
With the CIH staff consisting of only one person, the CEO Clory Carrello, he relies on his interns to bring and present CIH to the Cockburn community. Currently, it's me, Clory, and another intern from Curtin Sterwina who are the PR officers for the organisation.

Since it was newly established, Sterwina and I have created the first newsletter for CIH, where we have learned the to-dos and not when it comes to publishing and obtaining release forms for the people in the photos. 

As interns, we are the firs to publish materials, create templates, and set the image for CIH. We also created a Facebook page for organisation to attract the public. we were put in charge in managing and updating the website for it to stand out from other super clinics in the area, as the website was quite outdated and unattractive. 

The other intern and I have a good dynamic going on, she deals with content, and I deal with design. 
So with such a small team, we work with very tight deadlines and a lot of content creation and organisation.

The next few weeks will be quite hectic as we get the next newsletter done, a fridge magnet designed, the website completely remade, Facebook page up and running, along with many other tasks. 


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