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A $450 support payment from the Victorian Government available to workers who must stay home from work while they await their COVID test results. For more information about eligibility and how to access, please see the DHHS website https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/employee-isolation-paymen

Resources on wearing a mask or face covering Department of Health and Human Services – Translated stakeholder pack – Mandatory Face Masks Victorian Chief Health Officer’s video about face masks into 14 different languages. These are subtitled in-language. World Health Orga

The Victorian Government has developed a stakeholder pack with translated information about the most recent Stay at Home restrictions for Melbourne and Mitchell Shire Click to access Stakeholder-Pack-13JULY2020.pdf

The Victorian Government has translated audio messages, posters, and social media posts on the latest restrictions. Access the full stakeholder pack here.

The Refugee Week 2020 theme is ‘Celebrating the Year of Welcome’.  Refugee week is an opportunity to celebrate positive contributions made by people of refugee background to Australian society. In 2020, Refugee Week will be moving online to ensure we can celebrate safely.

Please visit the Victorian Refugee Health Network’s page for COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) resources, information and services.

A new SRSS model will commence from the 1 May 2017. Over the coming months SRSS recipients will be notified about how this may impact them. SRSS providers have received the Operational Procedure Manual however there is no official information from the Department of Home Affairs for SR

Last November, shortly after the Humanitarian Settlement Program (HSP) contract commenced, health services noticed that health information was not being transferred as regularly as under the previous contract. Health services raised serious concern with the Department of Social Servic

Please see below for information relating to the ‘final departure’ Bridging E Visa.  The Department of Immigration and Border Protection have made a decision to issue people seeking asylum who have been transferred from Nauru or Papua New Guinea for medical care, and who have been liv

Our March-April 2017 eBulletin highlighted that since late 2016 the Department of Immigration and Border Protection have been sending letters to people seeking asylum requesting health examinations as part of the legacy caseload processing.  Read more HERE These letters stipulate that