How has the pandemic impacted the mental health of people with disability?
A special online forum to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and wellbeing of people with disability from migrant and refugee communities.Organised by ECCV's Statewide Disability Network, the forum will bring together disability advocates, mental health specialists, as well as people with lived experience.
The discussion will be moderated by Margherita Coppolino, Chair of the Statewide Disability Network and President of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance.
The discussion will be moderated by Margherita Coppolino, Chair of the Statewide Disability Network and President of the National Ethnic Disability Alliance.
Guest speakers include:
- Pinar Tankir and Betsy Rajan, CALD Engagement Workers in the Partners in Wellbeing program with NEAMI National
- Christian Astourian, Program Manager of the Diversity & Disability program at the Migrant Resource Centre North West
- Josef Szwarc, Senior Advisor Policy and Advocacy at the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture (Foundation House)
- Nyrob Majak, member of the Diversity & Disability program, and Peer Facilitator for ECCV's Raise Our Voices project
- Uli Kaplan, disability advocate and CEO of Life is a Battlefield
Where: Online via Zoom
Bookings: Registration is essential. Once you have registered, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting details.
Bookings: Registration is essential. Once you have registered, you will receive an email with the Zoom meeting details.
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Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria (ECCV)
Address: Suite 101, 398 Sydney Road, Coburg Vic 3058
Tel: (03) 9354 9555
Email: ndis@eccv.org.au
Website: www.eccv.org.au