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'The How’s Your Haal? (HYH) Project is a youth-driven community initiative that seeks to reignite the conversation about mental health for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) youth in Western Australia (WA). The heart of this project is about creating “brave spaces” for conversation about mental health, both amongst youth in CALD communities, and between CALD Youth, Community Leaders and Service Providers.' (Australian Multicultural Foundation)

The PHN Multicultural Health Framework aims to improve health and wellbeing outcomes and experiences for multicultural communities across all PHN regions. It provides high-level guidance and best practice actions to support PHNs to deliver locally informed and relevant responses in partnership with other stakeholders. 

5 Ways to Wellbeing has developed five ways to improve psychological and emotional health that are based on extensive international research. The fact sheet has been translated into a number of different languages.

This online resource kit has been developed by the Transcultural Mental Health Centre (TMHC) as a one stop portal where GPs and health professionals can locate information that will assist in providing effective mental health care for culturally and linguistically diverse patients

Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH) has created four free online modules.  Orientation to cultural responsiveness Cultural diversity and assessment  Working with interpreters  LGBTIQ interest  Enter the Learning Hub here or use one of the links below to open a specific module. You will be prompted to register or login.

The Generally Speaking podcast discusses refugee and asylum seeker health. Generally Speaking is an RACGP podcast, sponsored by CommBank and hosted by GPs.

This research paper explores engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) consumers by facilitating focus group discussions through bicultural fieldworkers in Arabic, Mandarin, Turkish and Dari in a district of Sydney, Australia. 

Information brochure about the Older People's Mental Health Service in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District. Available in the following languages: English and Karen.

With funding from the Australian Department of Health Settlement Council of Australia (SCOA) has worked with member organisations to provide culturally relevant and timely opportunities for CALD community members to access COVID-19 vaccine information. This report details the program and future recommendations.

Mental Health Australia commissioned research to investigate the mental health of three specific culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. These were the Italian, Turkish and Vietnamese communities.