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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW): This report explores the use of linked data to report on the health of CALD populations, including it’s benefits, challenges and limitations. It investigates each of the available CALD variables individually, using 3 health outcomes to explore differences between CALD groups within each CALD variable.

This resource was developed by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency

This Guide has been developed by Foundation House (The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture) and provides information on sensitively responding to students’ trauma reactions supports their recovery from traumatic refugee experiences.

Safety and quality practices underpin all activities undertaken by mental health services. They exist to provide clear, evidence-based pathways for staff to follow to ensure the best quality of care for all consumers. Governance for safety and quality provide mechanisms to safeguard high standards of health care through continual improvement.
 

This fact sheet was developed by Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA), 2014

Service provider: School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, in partnership with NSW Refugee Health Service

Region: South West Sydney

What: Improving the mental wellbeing of Arabic speaking refugees

Best practice domain:

• Accessible and appropriate services and resources
• Addressing the needs of emerging groups
• Improve mental health literacy

Brief overview

The Arabic Mental Health Promotion Program targets newly arrived Arabic speaking refugees who are attending Adult Migrant English Programs (AMEP) or other resettlement programs. The program seeks to improve mental health literacy of participants and focuses on improving awareness and understanding key components

This Guide has been developed by Foundation House (The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture) and provides information for those working with survivors of traumatic refugee experiences.

Settlement service literacy refers to the ability of migrants to access, understand and critically navigate settlement services. In Australia, increasing numbers of culturally and linguistically diverse migrants require settlement services to assist their transition. However, there are barriers to migrant’s ability to utilise settlement services which are related to their level of settlement service literacy. This review aims to shed light on how settlement service literacy influences new migrant’s utilisation of settlement services, and the consequences that it has for health, wellbeing and sense of belonging.

Service provider: South Eastern Sydney Recovery & Wellbeing College

Region: South Eastern Sydney

What: Providing mindfulness courser in Arabic, Greek, Macedonian and Mandarin

Best practice domain:

• Accessible and appropriate services and resources
• Addressing the needs of emerging groups

Brief overview

These courses will be co-facilitated by a Bilingual Peer Educator and a Bilingual counsellor. Mindfulness meditation is proven to be an effective approach for people to support mental health recovery and improve overall wellbeing.

Spiritual Health Association is the peak body for spiritual care in the health sector. Spiritual Health Association's focus is on advocacy for and promotion of compassionate, person-centred spiritual care in health services. Spiritual Health Association has a range of resources which can be accessed via their website.  

Background

This study addressed the limited understanding of suicide risk and patterns among migrants in Australia. It examined national-level suicide rates and trends in the Australian population to identify migrant groups which are disproportionately affected by suicide.

Visit the link to view the full study.

The Lancet Regional Health-Western Pacific 2023;39:100845 Published Online 17July 2023 

https://doi.org/10. 1016/j.lanwpc.2023. 100845