Upcoming Education
Refugee Alternatives Conference – Brisbane Feb 13-14, 2020.
Brisbane South PHN
Refugee Health Connect provides General Practices with education, cultural awareness training and in house practice support in Brisbane South and Brisbane North areas.
Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN
Provide training and support for General Practices working with patients from refugee backgrounds.
Qld Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT)
Offer workshops including introduction to the refugee and settlement experience and understanding the impact of trauma.
The Queensland Transcultural Centre for Mental Health (QTCMH)
Offer programs that focus on practical workforce development strategies that enhance clinical outcomes.
Multicultural Australia Training – Equip people with the knowledge and skills to work effectively across cultures
TRUE Relationships and Reproductive Health – Migrant and Refugee Reproductive and Sexual Health: Culturally Responsive Clinical Practice
Project ECHO – Supporting Refugee Kids – Children’s Health Qld
The Oasis Centre – Inala – Training Calendar.
Online Education Opportunities
The ‘Working effectively with interpreters and translators’ e-learning packages developed by Children’s Health Qld, provide education for clinicians, interpreters and translators to develop collaborative interprofessional partnerships. Three packages are currently available:
- E-learning package for clinicians
- E-learning package for speech pathologists
- E-learning package for interpreters and translators to work with speech pathologists
The Centre for Culture, Ethnicity and Health (CEH) – Cultural Competence Training
Online tools to help healthcare professionals enhance their cross-cultural communication skills.
TRUE Relationships and Reproductive Health
- Webinars for Clinicians: Culturally Responsive Health in Clinical Settings: communicating about reproductive and sexual health with refugees and migrants
- Interpreter webinars
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Responding to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting/Circumcision – This resource aims to address cultural awareness and is not a clinical guideline. This resource has been developed with the Culturally Responsive Health Advisory Group and community representatives.
Refugee Health Victoria
Provides a list of online modules
Emerging Minds – The National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health offers innovative online, free courses available 24-7, specifically designed to support practice.