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Rahma Health
Category: Child Youth Health, Maternal Health
Rahma supports Arabic speaking families to enjoy the magic of the first 5 years of a child’s life. Through world-class healthcare information, a community-led approach and the power of technology, we help our communities lead fulfilled, happy, healthy lives.Visit
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LGBTIQA+ Settlement report – Forcibly Displaced People Network
Category: LGBTIQA+
The 2022 report, “Inhabiting Two Worlds At Once,” is the first comprehensive Australia-wide survey capturing the experiences of LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people. The aim of this survey was to collect information about the experiences and barriers faced by LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people in Australia to advocate for more welcoming and inclusive support. The collected data will be used to push for better support for LGBTIQA+ forcibly displaced people because, as LGBTIQA+ displaced individuals, we remain unseen and unheard in Australia, where we deserve equal opportunities to call this country home. The development of the survey was funded by the ACT Government Office of LGBTIQ+ Affairs, and parts of the analysis were supported by the Department of Home Affairs. The ethical aspects of this research have been approved by the ANU Human Research Ethics Committee (Protocol 2022/326).Visit
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Suicide among refugee and humanitarian entrants and other permanent migrants
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Data presented in this report are drawn from a larger project investigating the health and welfare of Australia’s refugee and humanitarian entrant populations (AIHW 2023a). This larger project was funded by the Department of Home Affairs and involved linking the Settlement Database (Department of Home Affairs 2019) with other datasets available in the Person-level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA); formally known as the Multi Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP) (ABS n.d.). Linking the Settlement Database to the PLIDA enabled the identification and analysis of migrant status for deidentified individuals appearing within other PLIDA datasetsREAD MORE
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PANDA online mental health checklist
Category: Maternal Health
Many refugee women and women seeking asylum arrive in high-income countries with unmet preventive sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care needs. Primary healthcare providers (HCPs) are usually refugee and asylum seekers’ first point of care. This study aimed to identify HCP characteristics associated with initiating conversations and discussing SRH opportunistically during other health interactions.Access the multilingual checklist
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Kin | Disability Advocacy for Diverse Communities
Category: Disability Health
Kin helps people from diverse backgrounds living with disability, their families and carers. Visit their website to access translated resources in languages on various topics including structure of NDIS, and NDIS Quality.Visit
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The Letter Says I May or May Not Be Eligible… It Is a Big Doubt and Frustrating:’ A Qualitative Study on Barriers and Facilitators to Children’s Oral Healthcare From the Perspective of Karen Refugee Parents in Victoria Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (Balla and Takadamadla, 2024)
Category: Dental Oral Health
Abstract: Australia has a longstanding tradition of resettling refugees and individuals in humanitarian need. Among these, the Karen community from Southeast Asia is rapidly growing in Australia. The absence of data on the barriers they face in accessing dental services is concerning. This study explores the barriers and facilitators Karen refugees encounter when seeking oral healthcare for their children in Australia, aiming to understand their experiences.Read
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Free maternity resources for Health Professionals & Interpreters
Category: Maternal Health
The Stillbirth CRE is pleased to provide a suite of approved stillbirth prevention resources for use in the implementation and promotion of the Safer Baby Bundle. These evidence-based resources have been collaboratively designed for healthcare professionals and interpreters working with pregnant women. The Stillbirth CRE has partnered with the leading professional colleges and research institutions across Australia to develop these resources.Visit
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Partnering with families of refugee & migrant backgrounds
Category: Maternal Health
This course builds upon the established Safer Baby Bundle learning course to provide additional support to health professionals working with women and families of refugee and migrant backgrounds during pregnancy.Visit
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Growing a Healthy Baby: Culturally adapted resources
Category: Maternal Health
Safer Baby in-language resources for women, their families and healthcare teams to reduce the chance of stillbirth. Resources for Arabic, Dari, Dinka and Karen speaking communities (with English translations so healthcare professionals know what they are sharing). Click on the language below to access the PDF booklet, animation video and digital audio booklet.Visit
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Raising Children Network
Category: Maternal Health
raisingchildren.net.au provides ad-free parenting videos, articles and apps backed by Australian experts.Visit
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Perinatal mental health videos in twenty one languages
Category: Maternal Health
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health has developed videos about perinatal mental health in twenty one languages.Visit
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Perinatal Mental Health Video for Migrant and Refugee Women (English)
Category: Maternal Health
In this video, we talk with migrant and refugee women about their experiences of motherhood in Australia and what helped them feel more supported as a new parent.Visit
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Jean Hailes for Women’s Health – Translated Videos on Menopause
Category: Women’s Health
Short animated videos in English, Mandarin and Vietnamese to help women learn more about changes to the body during the menopause, how to manage menopausal symptoms and the top three things women can do to stay healthy after menopause.Visit
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Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU)
Category: Disability Health
The Disability Advocacy Resource Unit (DARU) has launched their new website sharing resources and provide training opportunities to keep disability advocates informed and up-to-date about issues affecting people with disability in Victoria.Visit
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Engaging Men from Multicultural and Faith-Based Communities in Primary Prevention
Category: Family violence
This resource has been developed as part of the Connecting Communities program, a partnership between the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) and Safe and Equal to support the learning and professional development needs of the Connecting Communities network.Visit
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Newly developed contraception-information videos in Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi and Mandarin
Category: Sexual Health
The EXTEND-PREFER Project has developed educational videos discussing the different contraceptive methods available in Australia. This video has also been translated into Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi and Mandarin.Visit
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Growing a Healthy Baby Project
Category: Maternal Health
New in-language culturally adapted ‘Safer Baby Bundle’ resources: addressing high stillbirth rates through co-design.Visit
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Resource toolkit for refugee and migrant women accessing maternity services
Category: Maternal Health
This Toolkit aims to support health professionals to deliver timely, safe, quality and competent care for refugee and migrant women.Visit
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Perinatal Anxiety & Depression Australia (PANDA) – Support in different languages
Category: Maternal Health
Get the support you need with resources translated into 40 languages.Visit
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Interactive map that shows increase in incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections(STI)
Category: Sexual Health
Please find an interactive map that shows increase in incidence of diseases such as Gonorrhoea and syphilis that are all STIs. We do not have any specific data as per community groups. But you can look into each LGA on the map.Visit
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Designing mental health services for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
A tip sheet for mental health clinicians, counsellors and key workers working with children, young people and families from a refugee or asylum seeking background.Visit
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Working with Children, Young People and Families from a Refugee and Asylum-seeking Background: A Tip Sheet
Category: Child Youth Health, Mental Health and Wellbeing
A tip sheet for mental health clinicians, counsellors and key workers working with children, young people and families from a refugee or asylum seeking background.View Document
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Factsheet on health requirements for protection visa applicants
Applicants for Protection visas are required to undergo medical examinations, however you will not be prevented from being granted a visa if you have a medical condition or are accessing any medical or disability services. Find out more here.View Document
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Helpful information for GPs seeing a patient from refugee background
This resource was developed by the Refugee Health Network QueenslandFind out more
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National Immunisation Program eligibility for refugees and humanitarian entrants
The Commonwealth guidance states that NIP vaccines are free for ‘refugees and humanitarian entrants of any age’.Find out more
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PHN Multicultural Framework
The PHN Multicultural Framework provides high-level guidance and best practice actions to support PHNs to deliver locally informed and relevant responses in partnership with other stakeholders.View document
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Health checks for women (Poster)
Category: Women’s Health
A handy guide to the health checks women need, and when to get them. Available in English, Vietnamese, Karen, Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified.Visit
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Best practice guide for migrant and refugee inclusive disaster preparedness, response, and recovery
Best practice guide to support service providers, emergency response agencies, healthcare providers, non-government and community organisations who are working with migrant and refugee communities as part of their disaster preparedness, response, and recovery efforts.Visit
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Bendigo Community Health Services – Emergency Preparedness Hub
Category: Rural and Regional Health
The hub builds the capacity for former refugees and emergency providers to better prepare for and manage severe weather events. Through a collaborative approach with SES, CFA, City of Greater Bendigo emergency staff and BCHS staff of refugee lived experience, the hub features co-designed fact sheets and videos in the Karen, Dari and Dinka languages.Visit
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Australian Fire Danger Rating System Communications Kit
Four animations have been developed to help community members understand the changes to the Fire Danger Rating system, better understand what each level means and what they need to do in response to the level when it is declared. The animation are available in 12 languages.Visit
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Fire Safety Translations
Please find information about fire safety in your language. There are over 40 languages to choose from published by Country Fire Authority (CFA).Visit
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Bushfire Safety (In Easy English)
Find reports on 'Fire Danger Ratings' and 'Leave early before a bushfire starts' published by CFA. Easy English is an accessible format that uses images, everyday words and simple sentences to help readers understand the information.Visit
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Fire Safety Video (in Karen)
CFA have released a video on Fire Safety in Karen language with the local community in Nhill, Victoria.View Video here
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Catch up vaccinations
Category: Immunisations
The Immunisation Unit at the Department of Health has created a new webpage to support immunisers through the vaccination catch-up journey with their patients.Visit
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Catch-up immunisation in refugees
Category: Immunisations
Vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) are endemic and/or epidemic in countries of origin of refugee families, and disruptions to health care may affect vaccine quality and access to vaccination. Information on vaccination coverage and disease status in country of origin is available from the World Health Organization (WHO), including immunisation schedules by country.Visit
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National Immunisation Program Schedule
Category: Immunisations
The National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule is a series of immunisations given at specific times throughout your life. The immunisations range from birth through to adulthood.Visit
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Influenza vaccination
Category: Immunisations
Influenza can be serious. The best way to protect against influenza is to get vaccinated each year. For some people the vaccine is free.Visit
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COVID-19 booster vaccine advice
Category: Immunisations
Learn about booster doses for COVID-19 vaccines, who they are for, when you need one and how to get it.Visit
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National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule
Category: Immunisations
The National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule is a series of immunisations given at specific times throughout your life. The immunisations range from birth through to adulthood.Visit
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Catch up vaccinations for refugees and asylum seekers in Victoria
Category: Immunisations
This resource was designed for refugee and migrant communities in Victoria about catch-up vaccinations.Visit
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Life! Program
Category: Health Literacy
The Life! program is a free type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke prevention program that is funded by the Victorian Government and managed by Diabetes Victoria. The program is delivered in English, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin).Visit
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Glossary of terms – Accessing mental health services
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
This glossary is designed to help you understand the technical terms related to mental health services in Victoria. In particular, it explains the terms used in the ‘Mental health services’ video. It may also help the work of interpreters in this area.Visit
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Interpreting Services for PHN-Commissioned mental health services
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
As a provider of mental health services funded by a Primary Health Network, your organisation is now able to access interpreting Services funded by the Australian Government through the National Translating and Interpreting Services (TIS National).View Document
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Access to mental health local services in twenty-one languages
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and Victorian State Government has developed videos about access to mental health local services in twenty-one languages.Visit
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Healthcare for people from refugee backgrounds and people seeking asylum- RACGP
The RACGP recognises the complexity of health care needs of people from refugee backgrounds. General practitioners have a key role to play in supporting this group, but they need to be supported through access to interpreters, appropriate education and training, evidence-based research, a coordinated approach between health services, and guided by a national strategy.Visit
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Working with patients from refugee background: GP Administration Tips
A brief guideline on GP Administration tips when working with patients from refugee backgrounds.View Document
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Working effectively with interpreters to support families from refugee backgrounds
A brief guideline on how to work effectively with interpreters to support families from refugee backgrounds.View Document
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National Cervical Screening Program – Cervical screening explained (videos)
Category: Women’s Health
This video provides an overview of the National Cervical Screening Program. It outlines what a Cervical Screening Test is and the test options available to participants.Visit
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How to take your own HPV test (translations available)
Category: Women’s Health
Self-collection is now an option for all participants in routine cervical screening. 'How to Take Your Own HPV Test' is available in multiple languages.Visit
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Factsheets on difference between new mental health locals and existing hubs
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Victoria’s mental health and wellbeing system is transforming, with mental health and wellbeing hubs being phased out, and mental health and wellbeing locals established.Visit
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Country Fire Authority Victoria: Fire Safety in other languages
We want to make sure that all Victorians understand the importance of fire safety and what they can do to improve their own safety. These in-language resources have been developed for you to share with your community.Visit
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Vic Emergency
The VicEmergency website provides a centralised location for Victorians to access timely emergency information and warnings.Visit
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Vic SES- Information in other languages
To assist people from multicultural communities, important information is available in a number of languages.Visit
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Our Voice – Our Experience: Floods in Shepparton
In a special partnership between Human Chapters and Regional Victorians of Colour, engaging in conversations with community members about their experience of the recent floods in regional Victoria. Neha Samar and Arti Shah participate in this conversation about the multicultural experience of the recent floods.Visit
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National Ethnic & Multicultural Broadcasting Council- Victorian Flood Payments Explainer
There are several different payments you may be able to get if you live in a flooded area and have had to leave your home or your home or business has been damaged or destroyed by floods.Visit
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Healthy Mind, Healthy Family, Healthy Community (Arabic)
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Healthy Mind, Healthy Family, Healthy Community is a video produced by members of the Syrian and Iraqi Community Advisory Group of the Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Project. This video is in Arabic.View
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Hope and Life (Dari)
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
Hope and Life is a video produced by members of the Communities from Afghanistan Advisory Group of the Diverse Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Project. This video is in Dari.View
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LGBTIQ Intersect
Category: LGBTIQA+
A great web-based resource to draw on as you look to promote the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people of different faiths and cultural affiliations. The website includes learning modules and an extensive resource and referral list.Visit
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Orygen ‘Trauma-informed care webinar’ Refugee Access Project.
Category: Mental Health and Wellbeing
This webinar brings you on the journey of creating a new service for the targeted population of newly arrived Iraqi and Syrian refugees aged 0 to 24 years of age living in North West Melbourne and why specialised refugee access services are needed.Visit
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Nothing for them
Category: LGBTIQA+
A small study undertaken to explore services and referral pathways available for refugee and newly arrived young people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans or those who may be questioning their sexual feelings and/or gender identity.Visit
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Reverb 2.0
Category: Child Youth Health
REVERB is a prevention and early intervention mental health initiative, co-designed and co-delivered by multicultural young people. It aims to embed multicultural lived experience to address stigma, build cultural responsiveness, and increase young people’s confidence to seek support.Visit
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Refugee Research Online
Refugee Research Online provides a platform for academic and non-academic research and comment on issues surrounding people seeking asylum and refugees.Visit
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The Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies PhD Program
This program is delivered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne. The Program is a supplementary learning opportunity to enrich your graduate research experience. The program offers an opportunity to share your research with other disciplines and expand your peer network.Visit
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The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute: Refugee and Migrant Health
The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute research the health and wellbeing of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Find out more about their current programs and projects.Visit
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Kaldor Centre
The Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW Sydney is the world's leading research centre dedicated to the study of international refugee law. Founded in October 2013, the Kaldor Centre undertakes rigorous research on the most pressing displacement issues in Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and around the world, and contributes to public policy by promoting legal, sustainable and humane solutions to forced migration.Visit
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Cultural Competence in Australia: A Guide
Developed by the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council of Australia, the guide explores the content, delivery format, duration and price of such training in Australia. The guide outlines what good cultural competence training looks like (p.15) and lists training providers in Appendix 5.Visit
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Practice Coaching—Free E-Learning for General Practice
Refugee & asylum seeker health: Essentials for general practice.Visit
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The Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide
The Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide can be used by doctors, nurses and other primary care providers to inform on-arrival and ongoing health care for people from refugee backgrounds, including people seeking asylum.Visit
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Migrant & Refugee Health Partnership Resources
Overview of cultural competence in professional education, training and standard setting for clinicians. Good practice approaches in facilitating primary health care delivery to migrants and refugees: The role of primary health networks.Visit
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Ask Izzy
This resource provides links to many additional services including food, housing, material aid, health providers, counselling etc.Visit
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HealthPathways Melbourne
HealthPathways offers clinicians locally agreed information to make the right decisions together with patients, at the point of care. The pathways are designed primarily for general practice teams, but are also available to specialists, allied health professionals, and other health professionals in your region.Visit
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NSW Refugee Health Service
The NSW Refugee Health Service (RHS) is a state-wide service, funded by the Ministry of Health. It provides a range of clinical services and medical assessments for recently arrived refugees and asylum seekers. Activities also include policy input, research, projects and a range of health promotion initiatives.Visit
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Appointment Translation
The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service's online Appointment Reminder Translation Tool allows you to translate appointment details into your client's language.Visit
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Multilingual printable appointment card
The multilingual appointment card has been developed by Cancer Council Victoria to help culturally and linguistically diverse Australians more easily access healthcare appointments.Visit
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TIS National promotional materials catalogue
The Translating and Interpreting service (TIS National) provides a range of promotional materials to assist you and your clients to access our services. TIS National provides a range of promotional products in electronic format for you to view, print or save immediately.Visit
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Health Translations
Health Translations is a free online library of high-quality translated Australian health and wellbeing information. Made for Australian health practitioners and people who work with culturally and linguistically diverse communities, the site provides quick access to a wealth of reliable resources.Visit
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Easidose
Easidose is a prescribing aid addressing language and literacy barriers. Easidose uses colour coding for medications, and picture based instructions for dose, frequency, duration and special conditions.Visit
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General Practice Engagement Project
In late 2014, the Network began work on a dedicated project to engage and support more general practices in Victoria to work with people from refugee backgrounds. This project builds on the work of many others in the sector, including Refugee Health Nurses, Refugee Health Fellows and the former Medicare Locals, who have done substantial capacity building with general practice to ensure accessible and appropriate health care in general practice for people from refugee backgrounds.View Document
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Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) Item
Refugee Health Assessment under MBS Items 701, 703, 705 and 707. This health assessment is for refugees and other humanitarian entrants who arrive in Australia with complex and unusual medical conditions resulting from their area of origin or previous living conditions. This assessment is separate from, and in addition to, a medical assessment specifically for the grant of a Refugee or Humanitarian visa.Visit
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STAR-MH
The STAR-MH (Screening Tool for Asylum-seeker and Refugee Mental Health) is a simple mental health screening tool developed for non-mental health trained workers to identify likely post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major depressive disorder in their asylum-seeking and new refugee clients.Visit
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Is your practice refugee health ready?
This guide provides a quick-reference guide to General Practices considering or currently providing health care services to people from a refugee background. It is not an exhaustive list but aims to serve as a tool to support health care for this population group and the development of appropriate primary care services.Visit
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Competency Standards Framework for Clinicians
The Competency Standards Framework (the Framework) establishes recommended and optimal cultural responsiveness competency standards for clinicians in all healthcare settings. The Framework is aimed exclusively at clinicians and inform the development of clinical education, training, professional development curricula and competency standards for clinicians.Visit
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Refugee Health Assessment
The Refugee Health Assessment Template 2018 (the Template) considers the primary care context including workflow and whole of practice approaches and will assist primary care providers to deliver high quality on arrival health care for people from refugee backgrounds.View Document
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2022 RACGP curriculum and syllabus for Australian general practice
The curriculum and syllabus describe the key competency and learning outcomes of GP education. It informs the development and delivery of training programs including CPD and guides learners by suggesting learning modalities and educational resources as they work towards Fellowship. It also serves as a guide to assist with remediation and GPs returning to work after absence.Visit
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Ethnologue online encyclopaedia of world languages
Find, read about, and research the world's 7,000 known living languages.Visit
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Communicating via an interpreter
This information sheet is one of a series produced by the Centre for Culture Ethnicity & Health covering aspects of language services.Visit
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Working with Patients when there are language barriers
A guide to accessing and using the Translating and Interpreting Service for primary care health professionals working in private practice.Visit
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TIS National services for medical practitioners
Short 3 minute video that explains the interpreter services that are available for medical practitioners and a demonstration on how to use them.Find out more
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How to Book an interpreter
The booking guide will provide step-by-step instructions on how to book an interpreter via the pre-booked, video remote and on-site channels in TIS Online.Visit
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Refugee Legal Factsheets
Click here for a list of Fact Sheets and Information Sheets produced by Refugee Legal.Visit
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Refugee Council of Australia
Are you applying to be a refugee in Australia? RCOA Provides some helpful factsheets on how to apply for protection as a refugee in Australia.Visit
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Guidelines for the Refugee Health Nurse Program
The RHNP is intended to optimise the long-term health of refugee community members through promoting accessible and culturally appropriate health care services that are responsive to changing patterns of refugee settlement.Visit
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CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service
Category: Sexual Health
CEH’s Multicultural Health & Support Service works with communities and health professionals to promote the health and wellbeing of people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, asylum seekers and international students. Its goal is to prevent new incidences and transmission of STIs, HIV, blood borne viruses (BBVs) and viral hepatitis among these communities.Visit
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The National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Awareness
Category: Sexual Health
This website is a part of coordinated Australian effort to increase our understanding of FGM/C and better support women and girls who have experienced it. A range of resources are available including toolkits, standards, brochures, guides, videos and research papers.Visit
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Women’s Health In the North (WHIN)
Category: Family violence, Sexual Health, Women’s Health
WHIN produces an extensive collection of publications and resources. These materials are used by a range of individuals and organisations including health professionals, family violence professionals, researchers and students, the preventing violence against women workforce, local government, health services and the emergency management sector.Visit
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Building belonging: A toolkit for early childhood educators on cultural diversity and responding to prejudice
Category: Child Youth Health
‘Building Belonging’ is a comprehensive toolkit of early education resources which includes an ebook, song with actions, educator guide, posters and lesson plans. It is focussed on encouraging respect for cultural diversity and tackling racial prejudice in early childhood settings.Visit
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The Early Childhood Access and Participation Project: Talking with Chin Families from Burma about Early Childhood Services
Category: Child Youth Health
This guide describes a model that encourages dialogue between early childhood service providers and families from refugee backgrounds.View Document
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Nutrition for Refugee Children: Risks, Screening, and Treatment
Category: Child Youth Health
Paper on paediatric refugees and their increased risk for growth and nutritional deficits.Visit
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Department of Education: Supporting students from refugee backgrounds
Category: Child Youth Health
Schools play a key role in supporting students from refugee backgrounds, particularly during the first few years of their settlement in Australia. Find out about Refugee education supports and Professional learning and resources.Visit
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Resources for schools to support multicultural youth
Category: Child Youth Health
Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) has a range of resources that can be utilised by schools for teacher professional learning, for in-class work or to share directly with students and families.Visit