Projects

Health Sector Development delivers innovative projects for health, government and community sector clients.

Recent work

Increasing requests for qualified interpreters

A social marketing campaign to increase demand for qualified interpreters in the healthcare sector.

Lexicon of early childhood terminology

Developing a glossary of early childhood terminology in simple English for use by interpreters when working with families with low English proficiency.

Local Government and HACC CALD Network

Forming a network decidated to CALD issues and coordinating a series of practitioner forums.

Life! Taking Action on Diabetes: Plain English Manual

Reviewing and rewriting the Life! Taking Action on Diabetes participant's manual to make it accessible to participants with low English proficiency.

Training for rural general practitioners

Training general practitioners in rural areas to access and work effectively with qualified interpreters.

Radio advertisements for early years services 

Scripting and focus-testing a radio advertising campaign targeting CALD mothers of pre-school aged children.

Cultural Competency Audit

Reviewing the cultural competency of a community health service, using a customised framework.

Interpreter Training for general practitioners

Improving GPs' capacity to communicate with patients and carers with low English proficiency.