Anne Johnston - Multicultural Centre For Women's Health

The WRAP #97: Mental health, building trust and 60 seconds with Alexandra Rijavec

Dear WRAP family, What a difficult month. We’ve been devastated by the loss of lives, homes and land of the Palestinian people. We are heartbroken by the unimaginable scale of death and suffering in India. We’ve been crushed by the shooting of protesters in Myanmar. Global events deeply…

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Investing in migrant women’s mental health

Recently, the Victorian government announced that it would invest a record $3.8 billion dollars to help reform Victoria’s ‘broken’ mental health system. This was good news for many who have long been advocating for more support. Among its many findings, the…

Building trust for a smooth vaccine rollout

Recent research has shown that migrant women are a key group who would benefit greatly from more information about COVID-19 vaccination. How we deliver that information is important.

60 seconds with Alexandra Rijavec

Alexandra Rijavec is a Project Co-ordinator for the WOMHEn project at MCWH.

Victorian government creates gender responsive budgeting unit in treasury

The Victorian government has announced it will establish a gender-responsive budgeting unit as part of its 2021/22 state budget, in a move that is widely considered an important step towards gender equality.

Media release: Victorian Budget 2021

20 May 2021 Migrant and refugee women will continue to receive much needed in-language health education for migrant and refugee women across the state, after the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) received an additional $200,000 investment in Victoria’s…

‘Women’s health funding has dropped from $4 to $2 per Victorian woman’: Health alliance calls for urgent funding fix

“Women’s health funding has eroded from $4 per woman upon commencement in 1988, to $2 per Victorian woman today. That is an effective cut of 50% due to population growth having to be absorbed by under pressure women, staff and governance committees.”

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Making the Links Podcast: Episode 4

In Episode 4, Vahideh speaks with Sami Fox, who shares her first hand understanding of the barriers that migrant and refugee women living in regional areas who are experiencing violence.

WRAP #96

The WRAP #96: That consent video, the value of a dollar (or 68 cents) and 60 seconds with Fay Xu

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Valuing migrant women’s health

In the area of health, equitable funding for women’s health services, which keeps up with population growth, is long overdue. Over time, funding for the women’s health program in Victoria has eroded from $4 per woman to $2 per Victorian woman today. When it comes to the million migrant women living in Victoria, the amount MCWH receives in funding is a very inadequate 68c per woman.

Author: Anne Johnston (page 18)