This week MCWH and Turning Point celebrated the success of the Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures project after 2 years of working together with 6 fabulous ethno-specific organisations focusing on youth: Arabic Welfare; Australian Vietnamese Women’s Association; Australian Federation of…
Media Release: Voices of Change-Marking International Zero Tolerance Day to Female Genital Mutilation
Women from countries where female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is practiced are the best agents to put an end to the harmful practice. This is the message at the core of the ‘Voices of Change’ event being held today to mark…
WRAP #17: The festive edition with music, Mary and 60 seconds with Alice Pung
Well we’ve made it people! It’s been a fantastic year which has passed at break-neck speed and for many of us, there will soon be an opportunity for a small pause. Even for those of us who will still be…
WRAP #16: Turning 35, rethinking pink and 60 seconds with Anna Moo
MCWH is turning 35! That’s right, we’ve been talking to women about their health and their rights for 35 years. You have to agree, it’s impressive.Like many women, we’ve had our ups and downs, a few makeovers, changed our name…
FARREP Statewide Planning Meeting
Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health was pleased to host the Family and Reproductive Rights Education Program (FARREP) statewide planning meeting last week. Funded by the Victorian Department of Health, FARREP is the Victorian program that works with communities that are…
The WRAP #14 : Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures, Bilingual health education and 60 seconds with Mila Robles
September has brought us many new things, new season, new government, new expectations for the future. Spring is typically a time when everything is young and fresh, but being young and fresh is not always what it’s cracked up to…
Healthy Lives Healthy Futures
‘Healthy Lives, Healthy Futures: alcohol education for young people’ is a short animation about the dangers of binge drinking put together for MCWH and Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre. Watch it here! Youth: it’s the best time of your…
Bilingual health education: not just about language
If you’ve ever grappled with using youth-speak and text-speak in everyday language, then you might just have an inkling of what it’s like to be a linguistic outsider. Kevin Rudd aside, most people over the age of 30 don’t feel…
60 seconds with Mila Robles
Photographer and mother-to-be What are you enjoying doing at the moment? I have just moved and I am enjoying discovering my new neighbourhood: East Brunswick. So many new places and I have CERES around the corner. If you were a…
Launch of the Culturally Responsive Palliative Care Community Education project
MCWH is very pleased to be part of the Culturally Responsive Palliative Care Community Education project, a collaborative project headed by Palliative Care Victoria and launched by the Health Minister, Hon. David Davis. The project will use best practice approaches…