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VICSEG – New Futures Refugee Family Resource and Mentoring Program Evaluation 2009-2011

May 15, 2012
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LDC Group completed an evaluation of  the VICSEG New Futures Refugee Family Resource and Mentoring Program over two years. The program works with newly arrived Assyrian/Chaldean, Karen/Burmese and South Sudanese families with young children aged 0 to 5 years in the North & West Me
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Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) translated resources

May 15, 2012
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This DEECD page links to all translated documents on the Department’s website.  It is arranged by language rather than resource type.
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A mental health research agenda for people of refugee background in Australia: a consensus study (Colucci, Minas, Szwarc, Paxton & Guerra 2010)

May 14, 2012
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This report outlines a response to the need to develop a comprehensive and coherant mental health research agenda to guide the development of policy and practice relevant to mental health research for children, young people and adult refugee background.
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Young people of refugee backgrounds share their throughts on mental health issues and services: A roundtable discussion between young people, service providers, Victorian government representatives and academics

May 14, 2012
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As part of a larger project the Centre for Multicultural Youth, the Victorian Foundation for Survivors or Torture, the Royal Children’s Hostpiral and the Centre for International Mental Health (University of Melbourne) convened a roundtable  with young people from refugee backgr
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Refugee and asylum seeker health in rural and regional areas 2012 roundtable notes

May 10, 2012
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These notes are from a roundtable discussion in March 2012 between rural health and settlement service providers, state and federal government.  The roundtable consisted of a mixture of presentations and workshops.  The notes contain a summary of the presentation and notes from the wo
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African antenatal DVD: ‘Your Pregnancy Your Health’

May 03, 2012
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African antenatal DVD:  ‘Your Pregnancy Your Health’ is a new African antenatal DVD available in Somali, Dinka and Arabic. This free resource was developed to inform and encourage women to present early for antenatal care aims to improve antenatal health and subsequent bir
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Sexual and reproductive health for people of refugee backgrounds; Victorian Refugee Health Network background paper 2010

May 03, 2012
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Sexual and reproductive health encompasses problems such as HIV, STIs, BBVs, unintended pregnancy, infertility, contraception, sexual dysfunction, and also the ability to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life, maintain respectful relationships and to be free to exercise one
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Barriers to and facilitators of utilisation of mental health services by young people of refugee backgrounds

April 27, 2012
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ABSTRACT The study that informed this report canvassed the views of more than 100 practitioners in mental health services or in contact with mental health services about “what works” and “what does not work” in engaging young people from refugee backgrounds with mental health services
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Revised Arrangements for Public Hospital Services to Asylum Seekers

January 12, 2012
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Access to specialist services by refugees in Victoria

January 12, 2012
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This report on access to specialist services by refugees in Victoria was compiled in 2009.
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