October 20 is Drop the Jargon Day. Drop the Jargon Day is a day for health and human services workers to practice and promote using plain, jargon free language. 6 out of 10 people in Australia have low Health Literacy. Many Australians have trouble understanding and...
World Hepatitis Day 2020 was on Tuesday July 28. This year, with COVID-19 restrictions in place, we took our message about hepatitis care online. And while COVID-19 is on everyone’s minds, World Hepatitis Day reminds us of the importance of maintaining other...
CEH’s Peer Education Project, a program of the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) will be running 6 community education sessions for international students of Indian descent on: 1.Understanding the Australian Health Care System Aug 15, 03:00 PM Register...
The University of Melbourne, the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health, Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Heath and VCS Foundation are undertaking a project to understand how culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups engage in breast, bowel and cervical...
Health Translations is an online library where people can access high quality, consumer-focused translated materials on health and social services. With more than 22,000 resources in over 100 languages (including Auslan & Easy English), it brings together...
Almost half of all Australians aged 16 to 85 years — 7.3 million people — will experience mental health issues at some point in their life. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to recognise that people are feeling worried, stressed and anxious in...
Community health organisation cohealth, has been using #health literacy frameworks and tools to make their services easier to use. As a not-for-profit community health and support service which strives to improve health and wellbeing for all, and lead the way in...
Supported by funding from the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, CEH’s Understanding the NDIS training for interpreters in Victoria was a two-year project that has just come to completion. More than 1,200 interpreters participated in the training...
In the Alcohol and other Drugs (AoD) Sector This month, CEH’s Multicultural Drug & Alcohol Partnership (MDAP) conducted two training sessions for managers and workers in the Alcohol and other Drugs (AoD) sector around improving care and access for people from...
Peer education goes to Ballarat Pictured: CEH Peer Educators from the Vietnamese community. Pictured: Ballarat Community Health Centre (BCHC) In the second half of 2020, CEH has been engaged by the Ballarat Community Health Centre (BCHC) to...
