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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…
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…
Media release: Towards a Gender Equal Recovery: Jobs for Migrant and Refugee Women
A consortia of 12 Women’s Health Services and Gender Equity Victoria (GEN VIC) have employed 50 migrant and refugee women to form a rapid response workforce to train women to disseminate COVID-19 information and deliver multilingual women’s health education in…
Multilingual women are countering vaccine hesitancy in Victoria’s culturally diverse communities
Excerpted from ABC News By Bridget Rollason Accessed 17 May 2021 “Vaccine confidence is very low amongst women … for migrant women it’s the problem of not having access to the information,” Adele Murdolo, executive director for the Multicultural Centre for…
‘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.”