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Peer Education – What Works and Why?
The Multicultural Health and Support Service (MHSS) has been running a Peer Education program for almost a decade with diverse communities including: Indian, Filipino, Thai Chinese, South Sudanese, Vietnamese, Ethiopian, Karen (from Myanmar) and Liberian. The peer...
Multicultural Drug & Alcohol Partnership Community Forum June 5th
Join the Multicultural Drug & Alcohol Partnership (MDAP), and their partner organisations, for a community forum on June 5th 1pm – 4pm. Attend in person, or join on Zoom, for a discussion and Q&A on; The MDAP program Alcohol, drugs (AoD) & mental...
The CEH & Gilead Sciences: Plain Language Health Information Project
The Pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is making sure that everyone living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has a better understanding of its HIV treating drugs. Gilead Sciences has now launched a software application (App) called HealthVu that provides...
CEH Welcomes New Coordinators
CEH has taken the opportunity to restructure to encourage and support collaboration across teams as well as support improved career pathways. An internal expression of Interest process was conducted and four new Coordinator roles filled. We are excited to announce...
The Multicultural Drug & Alcohol Partnership welcomes new Peer Educators
The Multicultural Drug and Alcohol Partnership (MDAP) has warmly welcomed 18 young people of South Sudanese background as new Peer Educators with the partnership. Recruited by the MDAP Outreach Team, they will engage with their peers, family, and networks about the...
The Ballarat Peer Education project
In early 2020 CEH’s Multicultural Health Support Service worked with Ballarat Community Health (BCH) to develop and implement a peer educator training project. This project was funded under the Safer Pathways for Women from Refugee and Immigrant Backgrounds. The...
Speaking Covid-19: six months of training Bicultural Workers, and what we have learnt
The Speaking COVID-19 training project (funded by the Victorian Government Multicultural Taskforce) has come to an end. Between October 2020 and April 2021, CEH has run 50 workshops for more than 500 Bicultural Workers – numbers that were not foreseen when the project...
Communicating COVID-19
Culturally Responsive Training, Research & Resources to communicate: VACCINES, COVID-19 & ‘CATCH UP’ CARE. Since the onset of the pandemic and in response to the national rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations, CEH has launched a number of initiatives to improve the...