News and announcements - Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

Now Recruiting: Committee Member (Voluntary)

MCWH is seeking to recruit a Committee member to join the organisation’s ASEF (Advocacy, Stakeholder Engagement and Fundraising) Committee of the Board. The role of the Committee is to provide strategic advice and guidance to MCWH regarding stakeholder engagement, advocacy,…

Now Hiring: Health Education Manager (Closed)

Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is currently hiring for a Health Education Manager. This role is a full-time role scheduled for a 2 year appointment and is remunerated at SCHADS Award Level 7. MCWH is a hybrid office. The…

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Our response to 2024/25 Victorian State Budget: A promising chance for Victorians to move ahead together

Today the Victorian government demonstrated a promising investment into women’s health and wellbeing by dedicating $18.3m over two years for Women’s Health Services to continue their critical work keeping Victorian women healthy and continuing to move Victoria forward toward gender equity. This allocation includes $1.49m for the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH).

Joint Media Release: Culturally-sensitive resources launched to address unacceptably high stillbirth rates

First Nations women as well as migrant and refugee women from communities disproportionately impacted by stillbirth have been involved in co-designing new culturally appropriate pregnancy resources, to save the lives of babies in their own communities. Stillbirth rates in…

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Budget Bid 2024/25: Moving Ahead Together

MCWH is calling for meaningful investment in migrant and refugee women’s health and wellbeing in the next Victorian Budget.

New Director Roles (Now CLOSED)

****** THE APPLICATION STAGE HAS NOW CLOSED ****** MCWH is currently hiring for 3 new director roles. Each position is remunerated at SCHADS Award Level 8, pay point 1 – 3 depending on experience. Starting salary range is $120,338 -…

Advocacy priorities 2022 – 2026

MCWH advocates on five key issues as part of our 2022 – 2026 Strategic Plan. Click the links below to read our one-page advocacy briefs on: COVID-19 MCWH Advocacy Mental Health & Wellbeing MCWH Advocacy Prevention of Violence Against Women…

MCWH’s response to the Ending the Postcode Lottery Senate Report

MCWH have written a summary report of the key citations and references, specifically in relation to the outcomes of the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health’s (MCWH) submission to the Senate Inquiry into Universal Access to Reproductive Healthcare and information provided by Dr Adele Murdolo, Executive Director (MCWH) at the public hearing in May 2023.

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MCWH reopens on 3 January 2023

Wishing our friends, families and followers a safe, healthy and restful year break.

Volunteer and internship policy

As a general rule, MCWH does not provide opportunities to volunteer with our organisation. We believe it is important to recognise and, whenever possible, remunerate migrant and refugee women for their work. Read more about our volunteer policy.

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