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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).

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Communicating for Connection Values-Based Messaging Guide

Download the Community for Connectiong Values-Based Messaging guide as a Word Document Download the Community for Connectiong Values-Based Messaging guide as a PDF MCWH and Safe and Equal have launched a new resource, bringing together lessons from members of the…

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Improving our approach to community-led prevention guide

Download the Community Connections Community-led Prevention Guide As part of the Connecting Communities Project, The Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health and Safe and Equal have partnered to develop a short guide Improving our approach to community-led prevention, designed for primary…

Best practice guide for migrant and refugee inclusive disaster preparedness, response, and recovery

Download a PDF version of the MIDiRR Best Practice Guide Download a Word version of the MIDiRR Best Practice Guide MCWH has published a best practice guide for migrant and refugee inclusive disaster preparedness, response and recovery. The guide was…

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.

Negotiating belonging the workplace: a steep cliff for migrant women to climb

We have known for some time that migrant and refugee women face the glass ceiling when they strive to advance in the workplace, but by looking up at the ceiling are we distracted from another more imminent peril: the risk…

Safety before sales: prioritising international student wellbeing

Australia is a highly sought out study destination for international students, having attracted more than 200,000 enrolments over the last year. International education is often described as one of Australia’s biggest exports and international students, a commodity. It is often…

Don’t rely on our resilience. We want equitable mental health care!

In recent years, mental health and wellbeing has been catapulted into public consciousness and the policy spotlight at all levels of government. Reports such as the Productivity Commission’s Mental Health Inquiry Report and the findings of the Royal Commission into…

Making gains in pelvic pain

Underdiagnosed and potentially debilitating – pelvic pain effects women across their life course, impacting their ability to participate in education, employment, exercise and recreational activities. Most commonly associated with menstrual periods, though it can be exacerbated by a range of medical…

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