Brightwater has been recognised on the national stage, named Runner Up for Innovative Design in Social Impact Measurement at the 2025 SIMNA Awards.
This recognition highlights the development of our Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Toolkit, created by the Brightwater Research Centre in collaboration with internal working groups across the organisation. The toolkit has been designed to strengthen how we measure and demonstrate the social impact of our aged care and disability services.
The MEL Toolkit provides practical guidance on evaluation principles, stakeholder engagement, ethical data collection and outcome measurement. Rather than prescribing a single method, it will encourage consistent, high-quality evaluation across all of our residential communities, home-based services and research programs in Perth.
By embedding evaluation into everyday work, the MEL Toolkit will help to foster continuous learning and evidence-based decision-making. The aim is to deepen our understanding of client outcomes and strengthen the impact we make across all services.
The Toolkit will be launched in early 2026, and it already shows strong potential to inform best practice more broadly across the aged care and disability sectors.
Being named Runner Up by SIMNA is a proud moment for the teams who contributed to this work and reinforces the importance of understanding our impact to ensure we continue improving the lives of the people we support.
