Multicultural health and translated resources
Calling an Ambulance in Queensland
This video will show you how to call an Ambulance in Queensland.
Access to Health Care in Australia
Access to Health Care in Australia provides information on the Australian health care system for newly arrived community members. Information is provided on how to access routine and emergency care, the role of health care interpreters and services for children and family.
The 19 videos are in the following languages:
Translated information for health and wellbeing
The Victorian Government has developed a range of translated information resources for health and wellbeing. You can search by keyword and language.
Breast health
A guide to breast health for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) women.
Healthcare resources
- Advance Care Planning resources for culturally and linguistically diverse people – State-wide Office of Advance Care Planning is a state-wide service (funded by Queensland Health) that helps to promote the important processes of advance care planning
- Brisbane North PHN– works with primary healthcare providers and community organisations to improve the health of all people including communities from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds
- COVID19 – Resources
- COVID-19 Glossary– resources available in multiple languages that provide plain language meanings to complex medical terminology about immunisation and vaccine development
- COVID-19 vaccine information in your language
- SBS’s current COVID-19 information available in various languages
- Domestic and family violence resources– translated resources about where to get help for victims of domestic and family violence (DFV)
- Jean Hailes (for Women’s Health) – an organisation dedicated to improving women’s health across Australia through every life stage.
- Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre – a specialist state-wide service that works to ensure people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds receive culturally responsive mental health care and support
- Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne– translated resources specific to babies and young children
Refugee and asylum seeker support
We engage with external organisations who provide support and information for refugees and asylum seekers in our region. Some of these organisations are:
- Refugee Health Network QLD – is a mechanism to build capacity, partnerships, and facilitate coordination of care across health, settlement agencies, communities, government and non-government sectors. The long-term aim is to improve the health and wellbeing of people of refugee backgrounds throughout Queensland.
- Multicultural Australia – provide settlement and support services for refugees, and newly arrived migrants.
- The Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT) – provides flexible and culturally sensitive services to promote the health and wellbeing of people who have been tortured or who have suffered refugee related trauma prior to migrating to Australia. QPASTT aims to provide services which address the range of physical, psychological and social needs that survivors of torture and trauma have. All services are free and confidential.
- AMPARO – provides independent individual and systemic advocacy on behalf of vulnerable people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) backgrounds with disability.
- ECCQ – supports social and economic participation for all Queenslanders through strengthening community associations, delivering leadership training, creating employment pathways and raising awareness of the benefits of cultural diversity.
- World Wellness Group (WWG) provide prevention and treatment programs that promote health and wellbeing.