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Cross-Cultural Communication In Disability

CEH has developed three training videos in partnership with the Summer Foundation’s Upskill project. These videos complement CEH’s Working across cultures in the NDIS workshops, by taking a deeper look at three important tools of cross-cultural communication in the...

Consumer Participation and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities

Consumer participation in health care encompasses both current and potential consumers of health services, carers and the wider community participating in decision making about health care. For the health and community sector, the parameters of what constitutes...

Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities in Physical Activity; A Discussion Paper

This discussion paper has resulted from work with the Moonee Valley Melbourne Primary Care Partnership(MVM PCP) Physical Activity Network (PAN), an alliance of health and government agencies in the local government areas of Moonee Valley and Melbourne who have an...

Language Services: Good Practice in the Victorian Health and Community Sector

Victoria is Australia’s most culturally diverse state. Over 23% of Victorians were born overseas and come from over 200 different countries. Of those born overseas, 72% were born in non-English speaking countries. This impacts on the English language profi ciency of...

Where Do I Go When: A Community Service Guide for the Northern Suburbs of Melbourne

‘Where do I go when…? A Community Service guide for the northern suburbs of Melbourne’ was developed in consultation with newly-arrived Syrians and Iraqis living in the Hume & Whittlesea area. It is designed to increase their awareness of community services...

Accessing Interpreters and the NDIS Fact Sheet

This fact sheet helps clarify when interpreting services are funded by the NDIA for people with a disability and English language needs. It borrows extensively from the excellent resource developed by Amparo Advocacy Inc in Queensland: Accessing interpreting or...

Finding a Home in Victoria – Multilingual Resource

Finding a home when you are new to Australia can be difficult, and confusing. Renting, paying bills, finding help in a new system… all present challenges for new arrivals.Finding a home in Victoria was developed to support people of refugee backgrounds to find their...

Multilingual First Aid Resource

CEH has produced a first aid resource in plain English and Arabic, based on St John’s Ambulance DRSABCD Action Plan. CEH worked with community members and a graphic designer to adapt the language and images of the St John’s first aid message for Arabic readers. This...

PrEP Facts – a tablet that taken once daily can stop you from getting HIV

PrEP facts – a tablet that taken once daily can stop you from getting HIV What is PrEP? It is a tablet that taken once daily can stop you from getting HIV. It stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis. What is HIV? HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus This virus (HIV)...