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Welcome to our Healthy Families project team

Welcome to our Healthy Families project team

Following the success of the Vaccine Voices Project, CEH was invited by the Department of Health to apply for the Vaccine Ambassadors program. Having secured this funding, CEH is excited to welcome the project team of Commuity Nurse  Faiza Mahat and Project...
CEH Training Blog – Working with the South Sudanese Community

CEH Training Blog – Working with the South Sudanese Community

In this edition of our CEH Training Blog with Eman, I’m hoping to help you understand the South Sudanese community better by interviewing one of our amazing bicultural professionals,  Anyaak Abiel.  Anyaak has spent the past couple of years working with the South...
Long COVID project receives 6 month extension

Long COVID project receives 6 month extension

We’re excited to announce that CEH’s Long COVID project has received a six month funding extension.  It is funded by the  Victorian Department of Health. As well as the 10 communities and 7 Local Government Areas (LGAs) that were the focus of the program...
Hear From Our Latest Health Literacy Course Graduates

Hear From Our Latest Health Literacy Course Graduates

North Richmond Community Health’s Healthy Communities team recently took part in our flagship Online Health Literacy Course. Watch the video above to hear how the team used their learnings from the course to make their website easier to use for clients.  CEH...
Cultural Competence in Sexual Health

Cultural Competence in Sexual Health

Kanwal Saleem (pictured), of CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service, recently spoke about ‘Cultural Competence in Sexual Health Care’ and its importance for people from migrant and refugee backgrounds as part of the Learn over Lunch (LoL)...
Long COVID in CALD Communities

Long COVID in CALD Communities

Image: Long COVID Project Officer, Ambereen Farouque. Have you heard of Long COVID? In countries that have experienced high numbers of COVID-19 infections, these post-COVID symptoms, that can last for months after the initial infection, are becoming a public health...
Vaccine Voices

Vaccine Voices

Image: L-R; Vaccine Voices Advisers Simin Tuncer, Turkish, Albanian, Bosnian communities; Mukhtar Mohammed, Arabic-speaking communities; Mohammad Daud Karimi, Afghan community. CEH is one of three agencies involved in a new state-wide project aimed at encouraging...
Get your Jab! Videos in 20 languages

Get your Jab! Videos in 20 languages

““I am getting vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect myself and my loved ones”, Mabior Mabior tells the camera in his native Dinka tongue. He’s one of a group of 60 volunteers from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities who have been...
Helping AoD workers work better with migrant & refugee clients

Helping AoD workers work better with migrant & refugee clients

Have you ever had a meeting with a client from a migrant or refugee background that didn’t go well and you’re not sure why? The Multicultural Drug & Alcohol Partnership (MDAP) works specifically with the South Sudanese community in Yarra to discuss concerns...
The Ballarat Peer Education project

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...