Welcome to the Victorian Refugee Health Network.
We work to develop responsive health service systems that meet the needs of people from refugee backgrounds, including asylum seekers.
The Victorian Refugee Health Network, in collaboration with the Refugee Health Nurse Program in Victoria, has developed refugee health and wellbeing curriculum currently offered as a post-graduate nursing unit at Monash University. For more information on the unit, and for 2013 enrole
This nutrition resource addresses the nutritional needs of Latrobe Valley’s local Sudanese community. Adapted from the Healthy Eating in Brimbank resource, it includes 5 fact sheets translated into Nuer and Dinka and maps of the four main towns in the Latrobe Valley. Each map contains
Early Learning is Fun is a community initiative that promotes the importance of investing in children in the very earliest stages of life. Research shows that birth to five are the optimum years for language development and for young children foundational literacy skills are primarily
The Refugee Oral Health Sector Capacity Building Project aimed to support and strengthen the capacity of public dental services in Victoria to deliver responsive oral health care with clients of refugee and asylum seeker background. The project brief lists the activities of the projec
Starting from 1 July 2011, Victoria’s Dental Health Program is proceeding with a funding and accountability reform that will change the way agency budgets are set and cashflowed, the model for allocation, and introduce targets for activity. This guide provides an overview of the
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