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Safe Pregnancy Care
- Working together to proivde culturally safe pregnancy care – for women and families of refugee and migrant backgrounds – Safer Baby Bundle – free professional development and resources
- Top 10 Practice Tips during pregnancy care
Cervical screening resources for health professionals
- Department of Health and Aged Care provide resources to assist healthcare providers to engage under-screened and never-screened women in cervical screening.
- Female genital mutilation/Cutting – A resource for clinicians that aims to increase cervical screening and HPV vaccination uptake among women from communities that traditionally practise FGM/C.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Webinar – Is FGM/C Happening in Australia? What Health Professionals Need to Know – Multicultural Centre For Women’s Health Watch it here.
- National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Female Mutilation/Cutting Awareness
- People who have experienced female genital cutting -Australian Government Department of Health
- Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: A facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers – WHO
Domestic and Family Violence & Sexual Violence
- Help and support for ending violence – in Queensland
- Cultural competence when working with CALD communities – video by 1800 RESPECT
- Best practice for working with culturally and linguistically diverse communities in addressing violence against women – ANROWS
- Insights into Domestic and Family Violence from my community – SSI
- New Service Directive resources for DFV/SA victim-survivors
- We are Survivors – Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse victim-survivors of sexual violence
Translated Resources
- Family Planning Victoria and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health have translated resources
- Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health: A national voice for immigrant and refugee women’s well being in Australia
- Translated brochures about cervical screening – Select ‘Resources in other languages’ and ‘Search’
- Designed for clinicians and educators – a brochure of the most up to date information on all contraceptive methods available in Australia – TRUE
Further Reading – FGM/C
- Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health: A national voice for immigrant and refugee women’s well being in Australia
- Hearst AA, Molnar AM. Female genital cutting: an evidence-based approach to clinical management for the primary care physician. Mayo Clin Proc. 2013 Jun;88(6):618-29.
- UNICEF – FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION/CUTTING: A GLOBAL CONCERN
- World Health Organisation Information on FGM