Personal Care Attendant and Multicultural Champion at Southern Cross Care Vic What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I’m enjoying my job caring for the elderly. Back home I used to help my grandmother. She looked after us when we…
Bilingual education about palliative care is opening doors to better health
MCWH has played a key role in raising awareness across Victoria about the benefits of Palliative Care, through the Culturally Responsive Palliative Care Community Education project, in partnership with Palliative Care Victoria and the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria. For the past…
Research Project: Contraceptive Technologies and Reproductive Choice Among Immigrant Women
Last week researchers from Monash University conducted an interview training workshop with a group of MCWH bilingual health educators. Our bilingual health educators were trained to conduct research interviews for the Contraceptive Technologies and Reproductive Choice Among Immigrant Women Project. The research will…
Our Voices: Filling the Gaps FGM Spokesperson Project
This week MCWH was honoured to welcome African Women Australia (AWAU) to our Melbourne training room to conduct a component of their national FGM Spokesperson Project. Juliana Nkrumah and Paula Abood worked together with 7 Melbourne-based African women to frame…
Celebrating immigrant and refugee women
We think immigrant and refugee women are generally pretty amazing, so it’s never really a surprise to see them succeed, even when the pathway to success has not been smooth. This week MCWH was privileged to complete a wonderful journey…
A model for FGM/C Community Education in Victoria
The Victorian FGM/C program, the Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP), is under review. The aim of the review is to address a range of changes and challenges that have been identified over the 13 years of the program’s…
The WRAP #19 : Name-calling, working hard and 60 seconds with Dolly Atchia
Naming things is complicated. On the one hand, it shouldn’t really matter. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, they say. And as many of our parents told us, after finding us in tears after school, it…
Southern Cross Care puts their worker's wellbeing first
Yesterday MCWH met with Ian Barton, Deputy CEO of Southern Cross Care Vic, which provides Aged Care services across Victoria. We celebrated the start of a wonderful collaborative program to develop women’s health mentors among the Southern Cross Care aged…
MWHA Roundtable: Building a national picture of immigrant and refugee women's health
Last week MCWH hosted a two-day roundtable for members of our national multicultural women’s health network, which has been developed as part of the the Multicultural Women’s Health Australia program. The occasion provided a rare opportunity to survey the current…
The WRAP #18: The Aussie limbo, finding inspiration and 60 seconds with Khadija Gbla
The WRAP is back for 2014 and, despite the fact that it already feels as though we never left, we’ve got to say, we love what we do. In fact it’s a privilege, which we were reminded of the other…