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
Glossary of Terms: Disability Services (Simplified Chinese)
This information has been drawn from a range of healthcare and government websites, to assist with the provision of disability services.
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Where Do I Go When – A Community Service Guide for the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne
This resource was developed in consultation with newly-arrived Syrians and Iraqis living in the Hume & Whittlesea area.
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Sex Study Safety Project
This project was designed to promote the sexual health and wellbeing of international students and empower them with skills and knowledge to experience healthy relationships
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News
CEH Celebrates Refugee Day with winners of 2018 Community Grants Program.
It was announced today, two community groups will work with CEH to improve the health of refugee and migrant communities as winners of CEH’s Community grants program. The recipients were two of five finalists for the program which is designed to encourage health promotion through education. Applications were drawn from a range of newly arrived refugee and migrant community groups.
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Treatment of Refugees Is Unlawful
The treatment of asylum seekers by the Australian government is not just cruel but unlawful. We are a signatory to The 1951 Refugee Convention. Under international law, people have the right to seek asylum and be protected. According to The UN Refugee Agency, the...
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CEH to announce Community Grant winners as part of Refugee week
This Wednesday, on World refugee day 20 June, the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) looks forward to announcing the winners of our first community grants program.
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