Upcoming professional development opportunities

Mar 12, 2024

Upcoming Opportunities

Upcoming professional development and training opportunities related to working with refugee and asylum seeker communities in the health sector.

Do you have professional development opportunities to share? Contact refugeehealth@foundationhouse.org.au to share upcoming training, workshops and events.

March 2024

March 13: Supporting People from Refugee Backgrounds - Emergency Departments

Foundation House

People from refugee backgrounds, including people seeking asylum, have access to, and require informed approaches from, emergency departments. The nature of emergency departments can evoke strong reactions, linking patients to their prearrival traumatic experiences. Understanding those experiences and their impact on physical and psychological wellbeing is essential for emergency department professionals to effectively and safely assess, treat and discharge these patients. This webinar will describe pre-arrival experience and impact, practical trauma-informed approaches, health access and rights, and key skills in effective communication.

Learn more and register now.

March 19: Co-designing with CALD communities

Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health

Are you seeking to connect with new communities or currently involved in a co-design initiative? In this webinar, you’ll gain valuable insights from Tere Dawson, CEH project officer, as she discusses essential factors for effective collaboration and engagement with CALD communities. Register now and submit your questions to be addressed during the session.

Learn more and register now.

Ongoing: Mental Health Workshops

Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

Do you work in the mental health sector and want to learn how to provide culturally safe and responsive services? ECCV is holding workshops to help practitioners understand the factors impacting poorer mental health outcomes for multicultural communities. The three-hour workshop can be in-person or online.

To arrange a workshop, please contact ECCV’s Partnerships & Engagement Lead Surmeli Yesilyurt on 0481 589 664 or via email on syesilyurt@eccv.org.au.

The Victorian Refugee Health Network reiterates it’s auspicing agency’s acknowledgement of country:

The primary locations of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc., Brunswick, Dallas, Dandenong, Sunshine, and our outpost location in Ringwood, are on the traditional lands of the Kulin nation.  In keeping with Foundation House’s aspiration to heal individuals and communities we recognise the loss of land, children, language, lore and spiritual and physical wellbeing of the people of the Kulin nation and other Indigenous Victorians due to the impact of colonisation.

We believe that acknowledging the past and its impact on the present is vital in building strong Victorian communities. We recognise the survival and enduring strengths of Victorian Indigenous culture in spite of such dispossession and aim to build respectful and informed relationships with the Victorian Indigenous community based on the acknowledgment of their unique position as the traditional owners of Victoria. As such, Foundation House is committed to the acknowledgment and participation of Indigenous Victorians within Foundation House events and this is reflected in our official protocols.

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