Building Social Cohesion in our Communities is a free, interactive online resource to support development of strong, socially cohesive communities. Primarily aimed at local government, the resource will also be useful to non-government organisations, community groups...
On World Refugee Day, we launched the new Multicultural Community Action Network (M-CAN) to help improve the sexual health of people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.Refugee and migrant communities are more vulnerable to blood borne viruses and sexually...
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health in partnership with Monash University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery will launch a series of three seminars to celebrate their new partnership and to provide a platform for scholars, practitioners, community partners,...
Sexual Health and Relationships Education (SHARE) – Educational Tool We spoke to young people to find out how they learn about sexual health. Based on this research, we developed comics designed to facilitate discussions about sexual health. The comics are...
‘Of all forms of discrimination and inequalities, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman’ said Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Michal Morris, General Manager at the Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) led with this powerful quote in her recent...
The Multicultural Community Action Network (MCAN) is intended to develop long term partnerships that will bring together peer educators, other relevant community leaders and CEH.Samuel Sakama is a peer educator who has made a significant contribution to his community....
Our Peer Education Program aims to work with people from the community to open up discussions about sexual health and blood borne viruses in a way that is easy to understand and is culturally appropriate. Peer Educators are recruited from the community and trained to...
The Multicultural Sexual Health Network hosted the Taking Action on Hepatitis B Forum on 23 July 2015 to celebrate World Hepatitis Day.Thirty people filled the room at North Richmond Community Health Centre to hear from speakers: Dr Mihaela Ivan, A/Prof. Benjamin...
The Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) services sector needs to be able to respond more effectively to the complex needs of people from refugee and migrant backgrounds – asserted Michal Morris in her presentation ‘Can Alcohol and Drug Treatment Services be Culturally...
The MSHN Ballarat forum was held in the newly built Ballarat Community Health Centre on 21 May 2015. Thirty-three people attended, predominantly from Ballarat, with some state-wide agencies attending from Melbourne. The forum provided the opportunity for participants...
