Want to improve your support of carers from a CALD background? Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is offering it’s Beyond Cultural Competency course to professionals in the City of Monash who want to improve their support of carers from…
The WRAP #57: Marriage equality, reframing research and 60 seconds with Solmaz Yavari
This WRAP arrives in your inbox on a sad note with the passing of Victorian Minister for Women, Fiona Richardson last week. We have lost a fearless advocate for women across Victoria and everywhere. We’d like to share our deepest…
Saying ‘Yes’ to equal rights and health
MCWH wholeheartedly supports equal rights on all matters for all women, including marriage equality in Australia.
Reframing research
The answers we seek are often limited by the questions we ask. No, we’re not talking about spiritual enlightenment. We are talking about the challenges of research when issues of race, gender and culture are involved. For example, research…
60 seconds with Solmaz Yavari: Queen fan, case manager and aspiring rodeo rider
What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I do enjoy advocating for people rights and I feel fortunate that I am in the position of being able to do so. If you had a magic wand, what would you…
Media Release: Multicultural women’s health organisation and aged care provider partnering for the primary prevention of family violence
We are proud to be launching our new project in partnership with Southern Cross Care (Vic)! Equality@Work is the first workplace prevention program in Australia to address gender inequality and other intersecting forms of inequality which make immigrant and refugee…
60 Seconds with Doseda Hetherington
Doseda Hetherington, Women’s health worker and gender equality advocate What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’ve recently been inspired by a documentary on living minimally – it really resonated with me and I’ve since been slowing getting rid…
The Scoop Winter 2017
In Brief
We hosted our first networking night at the MCWH office in Collingwood on the 25th May and it was a great success! Read more about the knowledge we shared and what you can expect next time! On April 7th, Multicultural…
Keeping busy
Health Education Program (HEP) MCWH Multilingual Health Education Programs have been delivering important health information to women from immigrant and refugee backgrounds since 1978. Programs are conducted in industry and community settings by highly trained and qualified Bilingual Health Educators,…