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Sexual health, cultural diversity and young people: What do we know?
September 27, 2013
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This report details the ECCV forum on Sexual Health, Cultural Diversity and Young. The paper provides background information regarding sexual health and health literacy among young people of culturally diverse backgrounds; outlines the questions and panel responses covered in the que
Continue Reading →Working with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds with caring responsibilities.
March 08, 2013
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This Good Practice Guide explores themes relevant to young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds with caring responsibilities. It discusses strategies to enhance the accessibility and responsiveness of services for supporting good practice when working with this group of young p
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Refugee status report: A report on how refugee children and young people are faring
May 15, 2012
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The Refugee Status Report brings together a wide range of information to provide an overview of how refugee children and young people in Victoria are faring, focusing on children and young people who have entered Australia under the Humanitarian Program. Data sources include national
Continue Reading →Ucan2
May 14, 2012
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The Ucan2 program has been developed in response to the substantial number of young adults and older adolescents from refugee backgrounds who experience barriers to successful educational or employment pathways after completion of an on-arrival language program. It is a partnership pr
Continue Reading →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.
Continue Reading →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
Continue Reading →Promoting sexual health among refugee youth
May 03, 2012
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This study focused on how refugee youth access, interpret and implement sexual health information. The study built on the Good Starts Study For Refugee Youth project which identified the need to improve health literacy, particularly in the areas of sexual and reproductive health. The
Continue Reading →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
Continue Reading →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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