About the program

Health Sector Development (HSD) provides training and support to healthcare and community service professionals, to help make services more responsive to refugee and migrant clients.

We offer professional development workshops, organisational training and project management services.

Professional learning workshops

We hold regular professional development workshops for health, government and community service providers. Topics range from culturally appropriate health assessments to conducting focus groups and working with interpreters.

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Organisational training

Our training can be tailored to the specific needs of your organisation and can cover planning and delivering services, training for management or frontline staff, and cross-cultural communication. We cover a wide range of topics related to cultural competence .

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Innovative projects

We assist government and community organisations to develop language service policies, conduct cultural competency audits, create employment guidelines for bilingual staff and develop health communication campaigns for ethnic communities.

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The HSD team

Our team of trainers and project officers is highly experienced in issues of cultural diversity and wellbeing.

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