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...
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...
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...
Following on from last week’s refugee stories, MHSS would like to share two more stories from our community members from migrant backgrounds with similar experiences. The stories highlight some on the issues that people face on arrival and can support us all to...
Refugee Week aims to highlight aspects of the refugee experience and help the broader community to understand what it is like to be a refugee. It kicked off Sunday the 14th of June and concludes with World Refugee Day on Saturday June 20. This year will be the first...
Since we started our free webinars in October 2019 over 1,500 people have joined us. Here’s what we presented. Four steps to working effectively with interpreters Plain Language Writing Diversity & Inclusion: Making a Start Health Literacy for communicating in a...
CEH Online Health Literacy Course CEH facilitates a unique health literacy course which gives organisations skills and tools to improve access for consumers. Since 2015 CEH has delivered our Health Literacy Course to organisations from health, local government and...
Understanding the NDIS CEH is helping Interpreters to understand the complexities and distinct terminology of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in order to perform their role in an informed and accurate manner. Since 2018 we’ve trained over 1000...
Health Literacy Training Courses The majority of Australians have low health literacy. At least 6 out of 10 people you see may have trouble understanding and using the information you give. This fact has lead to Health literacy being included in the Safety and...
Cultural Competence Training Courses Our Cultural Competence Training can help you work better with migrants and refugees. 3 out of 10 Australians were born overseas. 5 out of 10 Australians have at least one parent born overseas. As a result, you need to provide...
