- Transcultural
- Alcohol & Drug Information
- Carer support
- Consumer websites
- Cultural background information
- Culturally Sensitive Practice
- Educational links
- Ethnic Agencies
- Human Rights Organisations
- Indigenous Health
- Interpreter Services
- Languages: Countries and Languages Spoken
- Mental Health Organisations
- Migrant Resources Centres
- Multicultural Websites
- Population Data
- Patient Rights
- Racial & Religious Tolerance
- Refugee Centres and Resources
- Religious Information and Festivals
- Transcultural Centres
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
Includes carers' support information in community languages
- Respite Connections
- Carers Network Australia - The Vitorian peak body of organisations and individuals that support carers of people with a mental illnes
- Carers Victoria
- ARAFEMI
- 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
- 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 2006 Census. Scroll down to the appropriate topic and download report.
- Cultural Orientation Resource Centre - Read online pubications by browsing by culture on the drop down menu.
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Women's Issues
- Immigrant Women's Domestic Violence Services (IWDVS)
- Immigrant Women's Support Service
- Women's Health West - Bosnian Women's Program
- Women's Health in the North
- Women's Health in the North - demographic information about a number of specific CALD groups in Melbourne’s north
- 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.
- 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
- Support Services for International Students
- Multicultural Resources Directory For Disability Services: Ethno-Specific Group Directory in the Eastern Region.
- Migrant Resource Centres
- Victorian Multicultural Resources Directory: list of ethnic agencies
- The Centre for Multicultural Youth
- The DRUM African Family Centre
- Flemington and Kensington Community Website: Ethnic Organisations
- 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
- 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
- ONEMDA VicHealth Koori Health Unit
- Aboriginal Mental Health: University of Adelaide
- Indigenous Psychological Services (Tracy Westerman)
- 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
Interpreter Resources
- VTPU Interpreter Kit
- Eastern Health Interpreter service brochure - Aims to assit agencies in getting the message across to clients with English language difficulties.
- 'Making the Connection' - an educational resource that has been developed by DHS for health sector employees to help make working with interpreters easier.
- Nationmaster: Languages (most recent) by country
- Click on printable version near the top of the accessed page
- VITS Language Link countries and languages spoken
- Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Health
- Association of Relatives and Friends of the Emotionally and Mentally Ill - ARAFEMI
- Carers Australia
- CASA House: Centre Against Sexual Assault
- Crisis Support - Suicide Line
- Department of Human Services, Victoria
- Drummond Street Relationship Centre
- Mental Health Branch, Department of Human Services, Victoria
- Index of Services by Mental Health Service Area, Department of Human Services
- Living Is For Everyone (LIFE)- the official site of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy
- Mental Health Council of Australia
- Mental Help Net
- Mental Illness Fellowship
- Neami
- Prahran Mission
- MIND
- Suicide Line 1300 651 251 - Free 24/7 Professional Support & has access to interpreters
- Trauma Relief, Education Assessment and Training (T.R.E.A.T)
- Victorian Mental Illness Awareness Council
- VICSERV - Psychiatric Disability Services Victoria
- 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)
- New Hope Migrant and Refugee Centre (formerly South Central Region Migrant Resource Centre)
- South Eastern Region Migrant Resource Centre
- Migrant Resource Centre Westgate Region
- 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
- Making Multicultural Australia
- Multicultural Mental Health Australia
- Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre
- The Centre for Multicultural Youth
- The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture & Trauma
- Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW
- Victorian Office of Multicultural Affairs
- West Australian Transcultural Mental Health Centre
- World Health Organisation (WHO) - Mental Health Policy Project
- 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 Booklets - Department of Human Services, Victoria (includes translations)
- Australian Human Rights Commission
- Australian Human Rights Commission - Translated Human Rights Info
- Australian Government Migration Review (MRT)
- 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)
- Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
- Refugee Council of Australia
- Refugee Health Research Centre - Latrobe University, Victoria
- Refugee Review Tribunal (RRT)
- Refugee Support Program - North Yarra Community Health
- STARTTS (NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors)
- The Drum African Family Centre
- The Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
- Victorian Refugee Health Network
- Refugee Status Report Victoria - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
- 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