The Cultural Engagement Program: A journey into supporting children, young people and families from multicultural and multifaith backgrounds through culturally responsive practice.
Join speakers Meena Nathan, Ikran Aden and Lena Ford (Department of Families, Fairness and Housing (DFFH)) in this seminar on The Cultural Engagement Program (CEP). A state-wide service that works with children, young people and families from multi-cultural and multi-faith backgrounds who are in contact with Victoria’s Child Protection program.
The CEP was established in 2018 to support child protection working with culturally diverse communities including refugees, migrants and asylum seekers from new and emerging communities. The CEP has evolved into a successful program providing an information and advice service for DFFH programs as well as direct support to children, young people and families who are involved with child protection.
The program is about to embark on the Multicultural and Multifaith Children in Residential Care Project, which aims to ensure that children and young people in out-of-home care are connected to their culture, language and faith and, where possible, returned to the care of their kinship community.
VTMH seminars are open to individuals, from all disciplines and working in all sectors, who are based in Australia and interested in diversity and mental health.
- Where: Online via Zoom — details to be sent to registrants in advance
- Cost: Free
- Bookings: essential. Spaces are limited. To secure a place, please register online via VTMH
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Victorian Transcultural Mental Health (VTMH)
Address: St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Level 1, Bolte Wing, 14 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Address: St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, Level 1, Bolte Wing, 14 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065
Tel: (03) 9231 3300
VTMH acknowledges it is located on the traditional lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation. We know this land has history, custodians and stories spanning tens of thousands of years. We celebrate and recognise the First Peoples’ continuing connection to the land and water, and pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging.
In a spirit of reconciliation, we commit to walking the journey of learning and healing together.