Dear friends and stakeholders, Welcome to our June 2023 e-newsletter. This week coincides with Refugee Week (18-24 June), Australia’s peak annual activity to inform the public about refugees and celebrate their positive contributions. Refugee Week seeks to create a better understanding between different communities, encourage the integration of refugees into Australia, and appreciate multiculturalism. Embracing multiculturism encourages open-mindedness, inclusion of diversity, and respect of cultural differences. According to the 2021 Mapping Social Cohesion Survey, the vast majority of Australians (84 percent) believe that multiculturalism has been good for Australia. We encourage you all to embrace Refugee Week. You can access a range of resources on the Embrace Project’s website including personal stories from refugees, translated mental health resources and much more. This quarterly update finds us halfway through 2023, with several exciting Embrace Project activities and engagements completed over the last quarter. A few highlights include: - facilitating in-person meetings with our Lived Experience and Stakeholder Groups,
- progressing our online PHN Community of Practice with a meeting to share Framework implementation progress and examples,
- and witnessing different co-design approaches take place with multicultural communities via our CALD Community Engagement Project.
In addition to day-to-day Project activities, we also want to highlight the significant contributions multicultural communities are making to the Embrace Project and Australia. We value their diversity of experiences and perspectives shared and their ongoing commitment to improving health outcomes. As part of the Embrace Project, we are committed to supporting multicultural communities and mental health organisations across Australia and we invite you to join us too! Warm regards,
The Embrace Project team Embrace Multicultural Mental Health Phone: (02) 6285 3100 Email: multicultural@mhaustralia.org Website: www.embracementalhealth.org.au |