Traditional Circassian wedding attire. I grew up in a multicultural family in Jordan, then migrated to Australia in my mid 20’s. This journey has undoubtedly influenced how I communicate today. My parents are from contrasting cultures. My mom’s Circassian; an...
We are thrilled to announce that the Multicultural Health & Support Service (MHSS) has received three year funding from July 2022 to June 2025 from the Victorian Department of Health, to continue our services to address blood borne viruses and sexually...
New, improved HEALTH TRANSLATIONS Online Library for Victoria’s culturally diverse communities. To mark Cultural Diversity Week, 19-27 March 2022, The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH) is excited to launch the new look and improved Health Translations...
We all want to deliver fair outcomes to clients who trust us to understand their needs, values and aspirations. And while there are helpful general frameworks and guidelines we can refer to, we still face all sorts of unique challenges to meeting these goals. This can...
Following the success of the Vaccine Voices Project, CEH was invited by the Department of Health to apply for the Vaccine Ambassadors program. Having secured this funding, CEH is excited to welcome the project team of Commuity Nurse Faiza Mahat and Project...
In this edition of our CEH Training Blog with Eman, I’m hoping to help you understand the South Sudanese community better by interviewing one of our amazing bicultural professionals, Anyaak Abiel. Anyaak has spent the past couple of years working with the South...
We are delighted to announce that this week, our much-loved community-led initiative, M-CAN (Multicultural Community Action Network), has finally CHANGED into the MHSS Advisory Body. Established in 2015, M-CAN worked towards building the capacity of communities around...
We’re excited to announce that CEH’s Long COVID project has received a six month funding extension. It is funded by the Victorian Department of Health. As well as the 10 communities and 7 Local Government Areas (LGAs) that were the focus of the program...
New monthly CEH Training blog CEH Trainer Eman will share with you her perspective and tips about CEH’s cultural competence and health literacy training. The first article is on unconscious bias. Unconcious bias – let’s get comfortable with being...
Australia’s population is made up of people from all over the world. This means that what may be appropriate for one community may not be appropriate for another. Sexual health is a very sensitive topic in many of these cultures. Kanwal Saleem & Tapuwa Bofu (MHSS)...
