NSW Multicultural Health Week 2009

Multicultural Health Week Objectives Events Multicultural Health Communication Awards:Resources & Events in your Area

Multicultural Health Week 27 July to 2 August 2009 raises the awareness of the various CALD communities across NSW and the state wide health services available to them.

Multicultural Health Week Objectives

The main objectives of Multicultural Health Week include:

To raise awareness of the health of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) groups
To raise the profile of Multicultural Health services and state-wide services amongst NSW health services
To raise awareness of the need for health workers to work with all Australians regardless of language, culture and religion.
To set a health agenda among CALD media
To raise awareness of multicultural resources and services to relevant CALD communities (via CALD media)

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Events

Launch

The week begins with a launch at The Welcome Wall at the National Maritime Museum Monday July 27 for media, CALD group leaders and Area Health Coordinators/Directors.

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Multicultural Health Communication Awards:

During Multicultural Health Week is the NSW Multicultural Health Communication Awards. The Awards recognise the production of multilingual health resources and specifically the effectiveness of the resource, the quality of the translations, the potential benefits for members of the CALD communities they have been produced for and with the judges also taking into account the effectiveness of their distribution.

The 2009 awards will be presented in the Jubilee Room of the NSW State Parliament House on Macquarie Street Sydney , on Wednesday the 29th July.

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Resources & Events in your Area

Sydney South West	Area Co-Director, Multicultural Health Services (Eastern Zone) www.sswahs.nsw.gov.au	02 95620500	02 9562 0501
	Area Co-Director, Multicultural Health Services (Western Zone) www.sswahs.nsw.gov.au	02 87174037	02 87174030
South Eastern Sydney Illawarra	Manager, Multicultural Health http://www.sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au/Multicultural_Health_Service/	02 9382 3309	02 9382 3353
Sydney West	Network Director Multicultural Health & DHI www.swahs.health.nsw.gov.au	02 9840 3756	02 98404100
Northern SydneyCentralCoastHealth	Area Manager Multicultural Health Service www.nsccahs.health.nsw.gov.au	02 8877 5312	02 8877 5320
Hunter New England	Director, Multicultural Health Unit www.hnehealth.nsw.gov.au	02 4924 6286	02 4924 6287
Greater Western	Area Manager of Primary & Community Health www.gwahs.nsw.gov.au	02 6363 8016	02 6363 8006
Greater Southern	Early Intervention Coordinator www.gsahs.nsw.gov.au	02 6124 9903	02 6299 6363

For a range of resources to promote Multicultural Health Week in your area as well as references and free resources and guidelines on Multicultural Health Communication, please contact your local area health service:

Or please visit http://www.mhcs.health.nsw.gov.au/

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This web page is managed and authorised by NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service.

Last updated: 6 July, 2010