Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to create better understanding between different communities, and to celebrate the positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.
#WithRefugees is the theme for Refugee Week 2018 in Australia.
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Toby Crook has recently joined G21's Health and Wellbeing team as a Project Support Worker.
Toby brings with him experience and knowledge of the children, youth & families sector both as a practitioner and as a project worker. He has managed a range of projects in the Colac Otway & Corangamite Shires, helping to strengthen community & health service systems to better respond to the needs of vulnerable children, young people and their families.
May was an exciting time in progressing work in the Healthy Eating and Active Living space. Members from the seven working groups and the Backbone Support Group participated in a Program Logic workshop with Dr Helen Jordan from the University of Melbourne.
Using an experience-based co-design (EBCD) framework, local mental health service providers have collaborated with refugee and asylum seekers to co-design services that deliver improved experience and quality of care.
Refugee Week is Australia’s peak annual activity to raise awareness about the issues affecting refugees and celebrate the positive contributions made by refugees to Australian society.
The workshop will engage those working in and with schools and consider opportunities for schools to enhance social inclusion for newly arrived families within the school environment.
Open to GPs and GP Registrars, Practice Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Staff, and Allied Health Professionals. This event is available in person or via webinar.
Indulge in an evening of amazing cuisine and hear inspirational personal stories of rising above extreme adversity as Diversitat celebrates Refugee Week with a fundraising dinner.
The VMC is the voice of Victoria’s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and is the main link between multicultural communities and the Victorian government.
This week is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures and achievements, and to explore how each of us can join the national reconciliation effort.
June 15th is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) and is the main day in the year when the world voices its opposition to the abuse and suffering inflicted on older people.
NAIDOC Week 2018 celebrates the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made – and continue to make - to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation.