MCWH is currently hiring Bilingual Health Educators. With both casual and part-time (3 days per week) positions available, the Health Educator role is instrumental to improving migrant and refugee women’s access to culturally and linguistically appropriate women’s health education. We…
Making the Links: A Guide to Working with Migrant and Refugee Communities in Primary Prevention and Early Intervention
Download ‘Making the Links Best Practice Guide’ as a pdf here Download ‘Making the Links Best Practice Guide’ as a word document here While mainstream family and domestic violence and sexual assault services have made significant strides in supporting migrant…
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…
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).
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…
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…
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…