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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
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
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
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
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
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
““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
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...