The B-HART Framework
Turning Human Rights into Everyday Practice
A Human Rights-Based Approach ensures that people’s rights are recognised, respected, and lived in everyday supports, services, and decisions.
The B-HART Framework further enhances a Human Rights-Based Approach with the Inner Development Goals, which focus on inner growth, empathy, and resilience as foundations for external change.
Driving change across five key areas
B-HART supports rights-based practice across all levels of an organisation, ensuring human rights are embedded consistently, not left to
individual goodwill.
“We don't want to have compliance as our gold standard of good practice. We want to have meeting the person's rights as our gold standard and along the way we'll tick all the boxes that we need to according to current legislation.”
Senior Lecturer (Positive Behaviour Support) Disability and Community Inclusion, Flinders University
Speaking at B-HART's Human Rights Day SymposiumB-HART's Guiding Principles
Maximise Autonomy
Service delivery models should actively focus on maximising the liberty and autonomy of clients.
Personalise Service
Support must encompass the whole person, respecting their beliefs, values, and individual physical, cultural, spiritual, psychological, and social needs and preferences.
Uphold Rights
Shift from a focus on merely meeting physical needs or providing scripted support to recognising each person as a human being with individual rights.
Facilitate Participation
Rights-holders are active participants in decisions affecting their health, increasing ownership and responsiveness.
Engaging Extended Supports
Recognise and value the role of family, friends, and other unpaid supports. Provide them with information and assistance if they wish to be involved.
Ensure Safety
Create environments and practices that safeguard the wellbeing, dignity, and rights of every person. Safety should protect without unnecessarily restricting autonomy.
Practice Mutual Responsibility
Exercising rights comes with the responsibility to act respectfully, reasonably, and in ways that support constructive relationships.
“Every decision should be filtered through one question: does this uphold dignity and rights?”
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“Modern leadership means shifting from ‘we will decide for you’ to ‘we will support you to decide for yourself.”
Policy and Project Officer, Physical Disability Australia
Speaking at B-HART's Human Rights Day Symposium