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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

The Victorian Government announced in October that it had reached an agreement with the Australian Government to allow people holding SHEVs to live in nominated regions in Victoria. Areas currently considered part of regional Australia for the SHEV arrangements are available on the De

The Minister for Health, Jill Hennessy and Minister for Mental Health, Martin Foley yesterday announced $11 million in funding for health and mental health services to support the resettlement of people from refugee backgrounds and people seeking asylum in Victoria. Victoria expects t

The Victorian Refugee Health Network is auspiced by the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House). Foundation House has released a statement expressing deep concern about the plight of people transferred by Australia to Papua New Guinea & Nauru. Foundation H

The Department of Health and Human Services has produced a list of Frequently Asked Questions on refugee and asylum seeker settlement in Victoria, for key services and sector partners. The resource has a range of useful information including definitions, information about current arri