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CEH Training Blog – Cross-Cultural Communication & Me

CEH Training Blog – Cross-Cultural Communication & Me

Traditional Circassian wedding attire. I grew up  in a multicultural family in Jordan, then migrated to Australia in my mid 20’s. This journey has undoubtedly influenced how I communicate today. My parents are from contrasting cultures. My mom’s Circassian; an...
healthtranslations.vic.gov.au has changed!

healthtranslations.vic.gov.au has changed!

New, improved HEALTH TRANSLATIONS Online Library for Victoria’s culturally diverse communities. To mark Cultural Diversity Week, 19-27 March 2022, The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH) is excited to launch the new look and improved Health Translations...
Watch the 2022 MHSS Workforce Development Forum

Watch the 2022 MHSS Workforce Development Forum

On Wednesday March 9, the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) team hosted an online forum for workers on ‘The Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Migrant & Refugee Communities’. Over 70 participants heard a...
CEH Training Blog – Discussing Sensitive Topics with clients

CEH Training Blog – Discussing Sensitive Topics with clients

We all want to deliver fair outcomes to clients who trust us to understand their needs, values and aspirations. And while there are helpful general frameworks and guidelines we can refer to, we still face all sorts of unique challenges to meeting these goals. This can...
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...
The Multicultural Health & Support Support Advisory Body is HERE!

The Multicultural Health & Support Support Advisory Body is HERE!

We are delighted to announce that this week, our much-loved community-led initiative, M-CAN (Multicultural Community Action Network), has finally CHANGED into the MHSS Advisory Body. Established in 2015, M-CAN worked towards building the capacity of communities around...
We’re improving the Health Translations website

We’re improving the Health Translations website

We’re improving the Health Translations website! We’ve been listening to your feedback and are working to improve the Health Translations website to give you a better online experience, making it easier to find translated health and wellbeing information. Our...
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...