| Action on Disability within Ethinic Communities |
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ADEC is a community based organisation which represents the rights and needs of people of non-English speaking background with a disability and their carers. It provides advocacy, information, referral, education, training and consultancy.
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| Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health |
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The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health is part of the North Richmond Community Health Centre in Victoria. It works with the Victorian health sector to develop solutions that improve responsiveness to cultural and linguistic diversity in Victoria.
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| Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health |
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This centre aims to promote high quality research on Aboriginal health through increased Aboriginal participation and control and to transfer research findings into policy and practice to improve primary health care in Aboriginal communities.
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| Diversity Health Institute |
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The Diversity Health Institute (DHI) is based in Western Sydney Area Health Service and works in partnership with communities, health service consumer, carers, health professionals, service providers, non-government organisations and academics. It aims to ensure that health services and programs are responsive to the social, cultural, linguistic and religious values and practices of Australia's diverse population |
| Drug and Alcohol Multicultural Education Centre |
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A non-profit, non-government organisation funded by the South East Sydney Area Health Service, DAMEC's primary focus is to bridge the service gap by assisting and supporting Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (AT&OD) service providers to make a difference to the way they access and service Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (C&LD) client.
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| Multicultural Health |
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The South Australian Health Department's Multicultural Health website. |
| NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service |
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The NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service was established in 1997 as a result of NSW Health's Plan "Health Services for a Culturally Diverse Society" (1995). The plan identified the need for the development of a co-ordinated statewide approach to provide information about health issues and health services to people who speak languages other than English. |
| NSW Refugee Health Service |
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Refugee experiences including torture, war or civil unrest, the loss of family and friends through violence, and prolonged periods of deprivation can have major implications on health status and the delivery of health care. The NSW Refugee Health Service was set up by the NSW Department of Health in 1999 to help meet some of these challenges. |
| Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre |
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The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre (QTMHC) is a statewide service which provides an information, referral, resource and clinical consultation service, funded by the Queensland Government. |
