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Peer Education

Peer Education

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...
Can alcohol and drug treatment services be culturally competent?

Can alcohol and drug treatment services be culturally competent?

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...
Launching our new 21st birthday website

Launching our new 21st birthday website

We have launched our new 21st birthday website.  Over the past two decades, we have worked with thousands of people and hundreds of organisations across the health, community and local government sector. We have demonstrated our commitment to achieving better health...
The Buddy Project – an oral health initiative

The Buddy Project – an oral health initiative

Partners: Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health (CEH), Barwon Health and Diversitat.The Buddy Project was an oral health peer-to-peer mentoring project which aimed to address the barriers to accessing oral health cares services for newly-arrived refugee...
Hip Hop & Health (H3)

Hip Hop & Health (H3)

We recognise that it is not always easy to engage young people in messages around sexual health. We work with young people to help them express and share sexual health information through performing arts. Young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds are often...