We offer a range of services and resources for health, community services and local government professionals as well as community members:
Training
Our professional development workshops are specifically designed to improve the way in which you work with people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
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Multicultural Health and Support Service
We aim to prevent HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in refugee and migrant communities, asylum seekers and mobile populations.
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Knowledge Hub
Here you will find resources on cultural competence, health literacy, language services and sexual health.
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Research
Our research is working towards building an evidence-base to support cultural competence, health literacy, and consumer participation.
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Cultural Consultancy
We can work with your organisation on projects, resource-development, social marketing, research – anything which requires our expert knowledge of how to engage with refugee and migrant communities.
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Project Management
We manage the Health Translations Directory on behalf of the Department of Health & Human Services
The Health Translations Directory aims to improve the health of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. We do this by providing health professionals and community members with reliable, accurate, and up to date health information in many different languages.
We have managed the site, on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, since 2014. Since then we have partnered with many high profile organisations to increase the availability of content. We ensure the topics and languages represented are relevant. Every day hundreds of health professionals and people from our community access the site across Victoria, Australia and all around the world.
Cultural Competence
Cultural competence is our expertise
We can help you become more culturally competent through:
- our training programs
- cultural competence audit
- cultural competence resources
Health Literacy
We focus on health literacy
We offer training, consultancy and resources to improve the health literacy of people in Australia. Our services include:
- health literacy course
- health literacy workshops
- health literacy resources
Sexual Health & blood-borne viruses
We are experienced in sexual health and blood-borne viruses
We focus on sexual health and blood-borne viruses in the Multicultural Health and Support Service:
- Multicultural Sexual Health Network Forum
- Multicultural Community Action Network
- Youth Ambassadors Program
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Recent Work
CEH works with EMR Alliance to build inclusive support groups
how could English speaking Social Support Groups (SSG) build culturally inclusive and welcoming environments for people who speak little or no English?
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Health Translations Directory’s resources are expanding
Due to the success of the Directory, which has close to 600 unique visitors daily, we are now expanding this valuable resource to include new categories such as disability, ageing, mental health, child and family services, family violence, housing and sport and recreation.
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Transmission: Creative Health Promotion building Hepatitis C Awareness
Transmission is a creative partnership between culturally diverse young people, Vietnamese Australian prisoners and artists.
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News
Blood Borne Viruses & AOD a focus for community members at the CEH Cultural Diversity Week Forum
As part of Cultural Diversity Week, CEH ran a forum aimed at Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities focussing on grant writing and an Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) forum.
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CEH Co-manager surprised Andrew Bolt consulted on changes to the Racial Discrimination Act
We are puzzled by the revelation that the federal government consulted with a journalist who the Federal Court has ruled breached the Act, and puts his views on equal footing as indigenous groups and other ethnic groups.
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Reflection on World AIDS Day: HIV/AIDS still matters
World AIDS Day marks a special day of reflection, compassion and unity in the fight against HIV around the World. The first ever-global health day has been celebrated on December 1 for more than two decades. The day enables people to show support and passion for HIV positive people and commemorate loved ones who have died from AIDS-related illness
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