Multicultural Health
& Support Service

Are you from a refugee or migrant background and want to lead changes to improve the health of your community? We want to develop long term partnerships with people from the community like you to help guide our actions and our work. The Multicultural Community Action Network (M-CAN) is also a space for you to meet people from your community as well as people from other communities to share ideas and learn from one another. There are three meetings held each year, which also include guest speakers who will present about useful topics to help develop your skills to advocate for your community needs. For example, one topic included information about how to contact the media to promote issues that are important to your community. To join the network, please just click on the button below and fill out the form. Membership is free. For more information about the network, please contact Mabor Chadhuol

Join the Multicultural Community Action Network

Are you a young person (15-25 years old) from a refugee or migrant background, and passionate about sexual health issues?

We work with young and passionate people like you to reach out to other young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to improve the health.

We provide training and support to take action around the issues of blood-borne viruses, sexually transmissible infections and healthy relationships.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Be a voice for change
• Support young people’s right to participate
• Help us develop and share resources for other young people
• Be part of the Multicultural Community Action Network
• Lead the conversation on youth sexual health issues
• Take action on different and interesting community development health projects

This is a volunteer position.

Please contact CEH if you are interested. 

We provide training and presentations to support your work with people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, asylum seekers and mobile populations.
We work directly with communities in partnership to address issues such as healthy and respectful relationships, gender equity, sexual consent, sexual health, contraception, STIs, BBVs, cultural understanding, and harm reduction approaches to drug taking. 
We deliver information in a culturally responsive way that aims to decrease stigma and discrimination. 
We collaborate with agencies from multiple sectors to consider and practice cultural competency in the sexual health and support services they provide to multicultural communities.
If you have any further questions, please contact CEH. Training which is specifically tailored to needs may incur a cost and we will be happy to provide you a quote.

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Nearly two-thirds of people who live with chronic hepatitis B in Australia come from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds or from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Nearly half of the people who have hepatitis B do not know they have it. Without treatment, up to 25 per cent will die from liver failure or liver cancer. What you will learn:

• Understand the basic facts about Hepatitis B testing, transmission and treatment
• Explore strategies that meet the needs of affected communities
• Learn about resources, supports and websites that assist health workers and the affected communities to seek help.

This introductory half-day workshop is for health and support workers who wish to learn the basics about hepatitis B and effective strategies for working with affected communities. The training module has been developed in partnership with St Vincent’s Melbourne and the Multicultural Health and Support Service at the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health. 

Dates for 2018 Include:
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• March 22 
• June 26 
• & October 23 

If you have any further questions please contact CEH.