MCWH is very proud to present the Annual Report for our 2017-18 financial year. View or download the Annual Report in PDF here (2.5MB): MCWH Annual Report 2017-18
Category: Projects & Publications
Intersectionality Matters: A new resource for preventing violence against women
MCWH is thrilled to launch the Intersectionality Matters: Guide to engaging immigrant and refugee communities to prevent violence against women. An earlier version of this resource was developed for Women’s Health Services in Victoria. Based on positive feedback, the guide…
MCWH Annual Report 2017
We are proud to present our annual report for the 2016-17 year. MCWH has worked with so many wonderful organisations to achieve great things for immigrant and refugee women’s health in Australia. We’d love to share our thanks and invite…
Free cross-cultural 'carers' training for health and allied professionals in the City of Monash
Want to improve your support of carers from a CALD background? Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH) is offering it’s Beyond Cultural Competency course to professionals in the City of Monash who want to improve their support of carers from…
Media Release: Multicultural women’s health organisation and aged care provider partnering for the primary prevention of family violence
We are proud to be launching our new project in partnership with Southern Cross Care (Vic)! Equality@Work is the first workplace prevention program in Australia to address gender inequality and other intersecting forms of inequality which make immigrant and refugee…
Annual Report 2015-2016
We are pleased to announce the release of our annual report for 2015-2016! It’s always pleasant to look back on the year past and we are always pleasantly surprised to see all we have achieved and what all the hard…
MCWH: ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015
2014 – 2015 was a fantastic year for MCWH! Download our full report here.
New international evidence on violence in immigrant and refugee communities
A review of international evidence published today has confirmed that migration helps make immigrant and refugee women more vulnerable to men’s violence against women. Violence occurs in all communities and cultures across Australia, but immigrant and refugee women face structural…
Our Voices, Changing Cultures Project published in Australian Mosiac magazine
Monique Hameed is the Project Officer for the Our Voices, Changing Cultures Project currently being run at the Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health. This fantastic project works with young same-sex attracted women from culturally diverse immigrant and refugee backgrounds running theatre…
Empowering multicultural women through health education
In the period of July – September an expert team of MCWH bilingual health educators facilitated our free health education program for state-wide female students of the Adult Migrant English Service (AMES) at the Multicultural Hub in the CBD. It…