This webpage contains links to useful transcultural and related organisations and resources. Feedback about our website is welcomed. Contact us at vtpu@svhm.org.au

Alcohol & Drug Information

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• Victorian multicultural alcohol and other drug (AOD) service directory

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- includes carers' support information in community languages

• CarerLinks West
• Carers Australia
• Carers' Network - The Victorian peak body of organisations and individuals that support carers of people with a mental illness
• Carers Victoria

Consumer websites

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• Australian Mental Health Consumer Network
• European Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (ENUSP) - Information in multiple languages
• Mindfreedom - Support Coalition International (SCI)
• PeopleWho - (Sylvia Caras' website)
• World Network of Users & Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP)

Cultural background information

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• Cultural profiles: A comprehensive compilation of profiles of immigrant and refugee communities in Australia.
• Cultural Resources for Psychologists (and other mental health professionals) - A website funded by the Australian Psychological Society with links to topics ranging from Migration and Mental Health to Cross-Cultural Psychology at Australian Tertiary Institutions
• The People of Victoria - Statistics from the 2001 Census. Scroll down to the appropriate topic and download report.  See also the 2001 Census Statistics Reports Series - June 2003, which follows on the same webpage

Culturally Sensitive Practice

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• Cultural Awareness Tool published by Multicultural Mental Health Australia. The tool is a small booklet that aims to provide general guidance to primary care pratitioners in how to manage clients with a mental illness in a more culturally aware way.  Download the document at the bottom of the webpage.

Educational links

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• Adult Multicultural Education Services
• BaFá BaFá: A Diversity, Cross Cultural Simulation
• Centre for Health Promotion Studies
• Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
• Equity & Diversity Unit, University of Technology Sydney
• Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Education - University of Sydney
• International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Cross-Cultural Psychology Bulletin
• McGill University-Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry
• Victoria's Virtual Library

Ethnic Agencies

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• Multicultural Resources Directory For Disability Services : compiled by the Eastern Metropolitan Region of the Department of Human Services
• Migrant Resource Centres
• Victorian Multicultural Resources Directory 02/03: list of ethnic agencies

Human rights organisations

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• Amnesty Australia
• Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
• Equal Opportunity Commission, Victoria
• Equinet: The Network on Equity in Health in Southern Africa
• Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
• World Health Organisation (WHO) Resource book on Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation

Indigenous health

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• Australian Indigenous Health Infonet
• Australian Indigenous Health Promotion Network, University of Sydney
• Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Education, University of Sydney
• Indigenous Health - ABC Health Matters Library A-Z

Interpreter services

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• All Graduates Interpreters - 1300 739 731
• On Call Interpreters and Translators Agency - Phone: 03 9867 3788
• Department of Immigration & Citizenship
  - For a telephone interpreter phone 131 450
• VITS Language Link, Victoria - phone 61 (03) 9280 1955

Languages: Countries and languages spoken

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• Nationmaster: Languages (most recent) by country - Click on printable version near the top of the accessed page
• VITS Language Link countries and languages spoken

Mental health organisations

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• Association of Relatives and Friends of the Emotionally and Mentally Ill - ARAFEMI
• Carers Australia
• CASA House: Centre Against Sexual Assault
• Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Drummond Street Relationship Centre
• Mental Health Branch, Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Mental Health Council of Australia
• Mental Help Net
• Mental Illness Fellowship
• Neami
• Prahran Mission
• Richmond Fellowship of Victoria
• Trauma Relief, Education Assessment and Training (T.R.E.A.T)
• Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
• VICSERV - Psychiatric Disability Services Victoria

Migrant Resources Centres

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• List of names and addresses
  
  Direct links to websites:
• Diversitat, (formerly Geelong Migrant Resource Centre)
• Gippsland Multicultural Services
• Migrant Resource Centre North West Region
• Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre
• Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne)
• South Central Region Migrant Resource Centre
• South Central Region Migrant Resource Centre
• South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre
• Migrant Resource Centre Westgate Region

Multicultural websites

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• Adult Multicultural Education Services
• Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities
• Amnesty Australia
• Australian Multicultural Foundation
• Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health
• Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
• Department of Immigration, Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs
• Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria
• Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre
• Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW
• Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture & Trauma
• Victorian Multicultural Commission
• Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs
• West Australian Transcultural Mental Health Centre
• World Health Organisation (WHO) - Mental Health Policy Project

Population Data

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• Department of Immigration - link to Migration And Humanitarian Program Statistics
• Department of Sustainability and Environment - download the population of your own Local Government Area

Patient rights

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• Patient Rights Booklets - Department of Human Services, Victoria (includes translations)

Racial & Religious Tolerance

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• Racial and Religious Tolerance Act - Click on VOMA Activities, then on Racial & Religious Tolerance Act; then click on Translated Information for brochures in multiple languages
• Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission

Refugee Centres and Resources

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• Australian Refugee Tribunal
• Centre for Refugee Research NSW
• Department of Immigration - link to Statistics on Migration And Humanitarian Settlement Program
• Mental Health Issues of Resettled Refugees
• NSW Refugee Health Service - links to case studies and frequently answered questions
• QPASTT (Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma)
• Refugee and Asylum Seekers Health Network
• Refugee Council of Australia
• Refugee Health Research Centre - Latrobe University, Victoria
• Refugee Support Program - North Yarra Community Health
• STARTTS (NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors)
• Victorian Foundation for the Survivors of Torture & Trauma
• Victorian Refugee Health Network

Religious information and festivals

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• Cultural and religious calendar
• Five Pillars of Islam
• Islamic publications
• Muslim Australians: their beliefs, practices and institutions
• Ramadan explained
• Ramadan - Month of Fasting
• Religious festivals defined
• Religion, Cultural Diversity and Safeguarding Australia - report

Transcultural Centres

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• Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing
• Centre for International Mental Health, School of Population Health, University of Melbourne
• Multicultural Mental Health Australia
• Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre
• Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW
• West Australian Transcultural Mental Health Centre