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The Paediatric Refugee Health Clinic is a joint initiative between Northern Health (NH) and The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) to provide specialist paediatric refugee services in Melbourne’s North. The clinic provides a multidisciplinary assessment service for recently arrived child

This resource, developed with Professor Louise Newman, focuses on the traumatic events and adversities that face people from refugee backgrounds and people seeking asylum from the point of escaping their country through to resettlement in a new country.  The resource discusses how the

Dr Karen Kiang, Refugee Health Fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital presented a webinar on 4th February  2016 about on-arrival health assessments for children, with a focus on the needs of people fleeing the conflicts in Syria and Iraq. This webinar was sponsored by the Victo

This report examines relations between parents and adolescents in newly-arrived refugee and migrant communities in Victoria as they negotiate the challenges of migration, settlement and integration. Click the button below to read the report.

The Early Childhood Access and Participation Project was conducted in 2011 in the Western Metropolitan Region of the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development.  The project was a partnership between the Department, the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture, Chin

Steven the donkey – the story of Sunday Garang (Reproduced with the kind permission of Sharon Sandy, Student Wellbeing Coordinator, Latrobe English Language Centre, Traralgon.) I was born in a refugee camp named Kakuma, in Kenya.  In the camp, our life was difficult.  We had no

The “Asylum seekers, refugees and human rights: Snapshot report 2013”  provides an overview of the key human rights issues related to asylum seekers who arrive by boat in Australia. Key issues discussed include: onshore detention and processing; third country processing; a

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

Refugees and Asylum Seekers are exempted from fees for general, emergency, and denture treatment at public dental agencies throughout Victoria, including specialist services at The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. This policy describes the latest public dental fee schedule and cond

Public dental services are provided to eligible Victorians through community dental clinics in community health services, rural hospitals and the Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne. This policy describes eligibility and priority access for public dental health in Victoria