By: The CEH training team (Siri, Jolyon, and Andrea) Sarah, a disability worker, sat at the kitchen table of an elderly Chinese man, Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen had mobility issues and was having difficulty getting around his home. Sarah was there to discuss his options for...
By: Bernice Murphy, CEH Manager 2022 has been another busy and exciting year at CEH with lots of interesting discussions, new approaches and improvements to our ongoing work. We’ve said farewell to some staff and welcomed new ones, projects have started and finished,...
Refugee Week, Coordinated by the Refugee Council of Australia, is Australia’s peak annual activity to inform the public about refugees and celebrate their positive contributions to Australian society. Honouring Richmond’s vibrant and dynamic Vietnamese Australian...
We are thrilled to announce that the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) has received three year funding from July 2022 to June 2025 from the Victorian Department of Health, to continue our services to address blood borne viruses and sexually...
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...
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...
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)...
Did you know that nine out of ten people living with hepatitis globally don’t know they have it? Wednesday 28 July 2021 marks World Hepatitis Day (WHD). WHD is acknowledged each year to bring the world together to raise awareness of the global burden of viral...
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...
The International Student Sexual Health Network (ISSHN) is nationwide network of over 55 professionals, established by the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) in 2015, to promote the sexual and reproductive health of international students studying in...
