Abstracts

“Any one of these boatpeople could be a terrorist for all we know!”: Media representations and public perceptions of ‘boatpeople’ arrivals in Australia

  • Session Title: Multiculturalism in media and advocacy
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Fiona H McKay, Samantha L Thomas, R. Warwrick Blood

A 'representative population sample’? Where’s the diversity in health research?

  • Session Title: Health research and analysis
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Spase Veljanovski

A BILINGUAL PEER EDUCATOR MODEL TO PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING IN ‘NEWLY ARRIVED’ COMMUNITIES

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 10 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Rita Alvaro, Hassenet Younis

A CANCER SCREENING COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGY FOR WOMEN FROM CALD BACKGROUNDS IN NSW

  • Session Title: Social marketing tools and techniques
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Scott Walsberger, Margaret Hardy, Robyn Godding, Nevine Iskander, Faye Spiteri

A Case for Justice

  • Session Title: Practitioner perspectives on family violence prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Maryann Athaide

A Human Rights Based Approach to Mental Health will reduce barriers to accessible care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities

  • Session Title: Right to health
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Dr Helen Szoke

A model of engagement: Developing action research in diabetes awareness and prevention in culturally and linguistically diverse communities across western Melbourne.

  • Session Title: Diabetes research, treatment and prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Mayhew, M., Totikidis, V., Naemiratch, B., Kousar, R., Bennett, K. M. B., Wang, L, Bryce, H., Basnayake-Ralage, P, Akter, S, G’her, G.

A Non-Threatening Approach - Raising awareness of gambling harm and reducing stigma associated with problem gambling among Asian communities

  • Session Title: Problem gambling and culturally inclusive treatment
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 11.35am
  • Authors: John Wong

A Statistical Insight into Health in Slums in India

  • Session Title:
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  • Authors: Dr. Meera Lal

A study on the typology of Chinese gamblers in Hong Kong

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: engaging with client belief systems
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Chi Chuen Chan, Keis Ohtsuka

A tool for enhancing cultural integrity in the delivery of mental health services

  • Session Title: Mental health: diagnostic tools and treatment models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Ayla Potts, Project Officer, Mental Health Division, Dept of Health, Western Australia; Carly Dolinski, Snr Portfolio Officer, Mental Health Division, Dept of Health, Western Australia; Bernadette Wright, Specialist Clinical Psychologist, Transcultural Mental Health Services, Western Australia; Joyce Broughton, Snr Project Officer, Workforce Capacity Building, Multicultural Mental Health Australia

A whole-of-organisation commitment is required to be awarded an outstanding achievement rating for ACHS criterion 1.6.3 – ‘Health provision for CALD consumers and consumers with special needs’

  • Session Title: Cultural competence in theory and practice
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: MICHAEL, Jaklina; PERCY, Sally; POULTER, Jenny.

Achieving the right mix of cultural understanding and evidence-based social marketing communications

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: culturally targeted health promotion
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Michael Camit, Jabez Allies, Jenny Crocker

ADDRESSING THE DIVERSE NEEDS OF MEMBERS OF THE OROMO COMMUNITY IN MELBOURNE THROUGH A PARTNERSHIP APPROACH

  • Session Title: Breakfast radio
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Mrs Lensa Dinka and Marama Kufi

Aged Care: difficult to understand in any language

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in aged care
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: ljubica petrov

All of Us: Victoria’s Multicultural Policy

  • Session Title: Multiculturalism in policy
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: George Lekakis

An Emerging Workforce: Multicultural Health Workers

  • Session Title: Building a bilingual workforce
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Genevieve Hargrave, Neila Helac, Nermina Komaric

An exploration of Sexual health needs of Somali women in a London borough of England

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: working with CALD young people
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Dr Sima Barmania

Are my Culture and Religion More Important Than My Sexuality?

  • Session Title: CALD LGBTI forum
  • Scheduled: Sunday 6 June
  • Authors: Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Are sexual health promotion campaigns appropriately developed to match the knowledge about HIV/AIDS among newly emerging communities ?

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: when health is global and local
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Peter Drummond, Ayse Mizan, Bernadette Wright

Awareness Raising on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) based on Western Australian FGM Education Program

  • Session Title: FGM
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Martha Teshome

Better Life For Arabic Women

  • Session Title: Physical activity
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Lydia Farag

Better Life For Arabic Women

  • Session Title:
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  • Authors: Lydia Farag

Beyond basic cultural competence: The Reflexive Anti-racism scale

  • Session Title: Responding to diversity
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Hayley Franklin, Yin Paradies and Emma Kowal

Beyond Community Education

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: a strategic mix of service models
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Shabeena Laundy and Rosemary Abdallah

beyond maturityblues - Talking about depression in everyone's language

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Debra Petrys

Beyond place -beyond words

  • Session Title: Innovation in mental health services
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: CarmellaGrynberg & Amanda Laming

BEYOND TRANSLATION: LESSONS LEARNT FROM MARKETING OF CANCER SCREENING TO CALD COMMUNITIES

  • Session Title: Found in translation
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Scott Walsberger, Margaret Hardy, Robyn Godding and Nevine Iskander

Bilingual Staff – Issues of definition, recruitment, and good practice

  • Session Title: Building a bilingual workforce
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Spase Veljanovski

Bilingual Staff at the Women's Project

  • Session Title: Building a bilingual workforce
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Bridget O'Brien

Body, Mind + Soul: a new model for providing physical health care to the mentally ill

  • Session Title: Holistic care
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Dr Wisnton Lo, Mr Paul Clenaghan, Mr Jerry Bacich, Ms Karen Frost

Building Bridges for Social Inclusion in Multicultural Societies

  • Session Title: Building Bridges
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: A/Prof Margaret Kelaher; Ms Angeline Ferdinand; Dr Yin Paradies; Dr Deb Warr

CALD Advocacy & Multiculturism...a missing link?

  • Session Title: Carer and consumer perspectives on mental health
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Evan Bichara and Nadine Hantke

Capturing the CALD experience in patient carer interviews:

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Gabi Martinez

Cardiac/CHF Rehabilitation Services at Western Health

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Kerrie Westwood

Challenges we face and Experiences they encounter – A day with international students.

  • Session Title: Social inclusion and young people
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Dr Louisa Yim

Community action to reduce problem gambling risk – the Casino bus trips project

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: culturally targeted health promotion
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Emel Ackay, Gamblers Help Northern, Victoria; Susan Rennie, Banyule Nillumbik Primary Care Alliance; Phil Grinter, Gamblers Help Northern

Continence in Ethnic Communities: the influence of cultural perceptions, practices and attitudes on the prevention, treatment and management of incontinence

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Deborah Manning

Council and Community Partnership

  • Session Title: Inclusive service delivery
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Dee-Dee San Jose

Creating the volunteer journey: from community engagement to workforce development

  • Session Title: Volunteerign and CALD communities
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Stavroula Mavroudis

Cultural Care for Refugees with Age and Disability Issues

  • Session Title: Holistic care
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Shroug Mohamed

Cultural Diversity in Psychotherapeutic treatment

  • Session Title: mental health: diagnostic tools and treatment models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Jagmohan Gilhotra

Cultural Integrity in Service Delivery in HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health

  • Session Title: Cultue, health & sexuality: a stretgic mix of service models
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Dr Astrid Perry, Esta paschalidis-Chilas, Denilson Fukunishi, Mark Denoe

CULTURAL INTEGRITY IN FAMILY VIOLENCE GROUP WORK

  • Session Title: Practitioner perspectives on family violence prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Jennifer Dawson & Cath Lancaster

Cultural responsiveness framework: linking access, equity, quality and safety in Victorian health services.

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in systems and frameworks
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Lidia Horvat

Cultural rights and integrity in service delivery - a local justice perspective

  • Session Title: Alcohol, drugs and the justice system
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Jay Jordens & Kavitha Chandra-Shekean

Culturally Sensitive Advance Care Planning

  • Session Title: Palliative care
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Dr Barbara Hayes; Ms Anne Marie Fabri

Culture in Practice: Postgraduate Nursing Courses in the NT

  • Session Title: Training for structural change
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Robyn Williams

Delivering alcohol and other drug interventions in a human rights framework

  • Session Title: Alcohol, drugs and the justice system
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Brad Pearce

Dementia and diverse communities: raising awareness and providing culturally appropriate services

  • Session Title: Dementia care and education
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Maree Farrow, Natalija Nesvadba, Grace Roberto

Developing cultural integrity in health care service delivery through e-learning

  • Session Title: Training for structural change
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Lisa Woodland and Scott Brunero

Development of multilingual DVD resource on diagnosis and treatment of Tuberculosis- 'Breathing Space'

  • Session Title: Refugee health: engagement and access
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Mrs Diana Milosevic, NSW Refugee Health Service; Dr Mitchell Smith, NSW Refugee Health Service; Mrs Deborah Baverstock, Parramatta Chest Clinic, Sydney West Area Health Service

Diabetes School Based Prevention in a Vietnamese Community: Lessons and Future Directions

  • Session Title: Understanding diabetes
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Totikidis, V., Bennett, K. M. B., Naemiratch, B., Kousar, R., Mayhew, M., G’her, G., Bryce, H., Basnayake-Ralage, P., Akter, S., & Wang, L.

Different people, different needs – same context!

  • Session Title: Palliative care
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Margaret Box

Dilemmas and learnings of working with men from diverse backgrounds

  • Session Title: Practitioner perspectives on family violence prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Robyn McIvor

Diverse Communities, Diverse Approaches: More Effective Health Promotion in the Context of Chronic Illness

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Steve Francis & Beatriz Miralles-Lombardo

Diversity in Action - A community sector response to hepatitis B

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: a strategic mix of service models
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: The Victorian Hepatitis B Alliance

Do not go quietly into the night

  • Session Title: Pallative care
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Tatjana Bahro

Double Trouble? A consultation on the health and social support needs of culturally and linguistically diverse men who have sex with men (CALD MSM)

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: responding to emerging issues and epidemics
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 11.35am
  • Authors: Daniel Reeders

Effectively Delivering Health Information to Refugee Communities

  • Session Title: Health literacy
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Zhihong Gu

ENABLING CHANGE working together to initiate and supply equitable and culturally appropriate health care

  • Session Title: Inclusive service delivery
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Madeline Chapman

Engaging Young People on their own terms – Creating new creating new opportunities to connect

  • Session Title: Mental health: population groups
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Adrine Santos, Nadia Garan, Roy Laube, Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW

Enhancing Refugee Health and Wellbeing by Minimising Risk in an Educational Setting: MFB FLAMES program

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Stephen O'Malley

Ethical challenges for health care interpreters in the new era

  • Session Title: Language service workforce quality
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Vesna Boglev, Elizabeth Ramirez, Agnes Lauder

Experiences of Chronic Care Management from Diverse Communities: Informing policy from the ground up

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Lisa Hodgson

Experiences of nurses using the RUDAS cognitive screening tool in a community care setting

  • Session Title: Dementia care and education
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: WHILE, Chris; SIMS, Nia; MICHAEL, Jaklina

Exploring inclusive service delivery approaches and their potential to support specific targeting of equity groups

  • Session Title: Inclusive service delivery
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Astrid Perry

Fitness Program for People From Culturlly and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

  • Session Title: Physical activity
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Renee lee

Flexible and responsive services in community aged care

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in aged care
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Dr Carmel Laragy; Ms Jacqui Allen; Dr Goetz Ottmann

Forms of Therapy

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: innovative service models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Goran Jovanov & Enaam Oudih

From the Board to the Floor - building cultural competency in community based health

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in systems and frameworks
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Pamela Rodriguez & Lindy Marlow

Gambling and Culturally-Specific Screening and Early Intervention Techniques: A Workshop for Clinicians Working with Substance Abuse, Mental Health and Family Counselling

  • Session Title: Problem gambling and culturally inclusive treatment
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 11.35am
  • Authors: Janine Robinson

Get to know your medicines campaign: Learning from the trial with Cantonese, Mandarin and Italian speaking seniors

  • Session Title: Breakfast radio
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Anita Maberly

Hard-to-reach communities or hard-to-access services?

  • Session Title: Improving oral health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Elisha Riggs, Lisa Gibbs, Christine Armit, Mark Gussy, Amal El-Khoury, Leila Alloush, Saiqa, Saher Ali, Elizabeth Waters

Health and ‘cultural’ rights in children’s health care

  • Session Title: Right to health
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Cathy O'Callaghan

Healthy Diversity for wellbeing and social inclusion

  • Session Title: Social inclusion and young people
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Ennalies Oudendijk & Bich Ha

Healthy Teeth for Everbody

  • Session Title: Improving oral health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: G.Martinez S.Ajwani S. Bhole J.Goldsborough

Helping to understand suicidal behaviour within CALD communities

  • Session Title: Suicide prevention
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Helen Jevons (Senior Research Project Officer) and George Klein (Clinical Evaluation Officer), Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW (TMHC)

How Culture May Impact Client Beliefs about Gambling and Luck

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: engaging with client belief systems
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Janine Robinson

How to fit messages on raising kids with disability, culture, refugee issues in a 20 minute DVD in 5 emerging community languages and win a National Multicultural Marketing Award

  • Session Title: Social marketing tools and techniques
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Michael Camit, Diana Qian, Barry Gamba

How to triple use of interpreter services – lessons from the successful implementation of the Queensland Health Interpreter Service (QHIS)

  • Session Title: Language service systems
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Ellen Hawes

Improving access to Type 2 Diabetes services

  • Session Title: Understanding diabetes
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Christine Greenhatch (Executive Officer of Moonee Valley Melbourne PCP) & Bruce Watson (Executive Officer of Hume Moreland PCP)

Improving refugee women’s access to appropriate women’s health services through peer education.

  • Session Title: Good practice in maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Jan Williams, Jacqueline Riviere, Susan Dunford, Hoda Hanifi

Indifference or Acceptance? Healthcare Policy and Multiculturalism

  • Session Title: Multiculturalism in policy
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Pamela Garrett

International Students and Problem Gambling: A Comparison of Cultural Groups

  • Session Title: Problem gambling and client belief systems
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Anna Thomas, Susan Moore, Michael Kyrios, Petra Staiger and Joe Graffam

Issues and Challenges of Cultural Diversity in Health Care Systems.

  • Session Title: Cultural competence in theory and practice
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Prof. Hurriyet Babacan and Dr. Gurjeet K. Gill

Language Services in Hospitals Increasing Quality Through Cost Containment: The Northern Health Experience

  • Session Title: Language service systems
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Emiliano Zucchi

Learnings from a social enterprise as a social inclusion strategy for diverse communities

  • Session Title: Social enterprise
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Jane Price

MAITRI A multicultural mental health matrix

  • Session Title: Community mental health services
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Carol Joseph and Ramdas Sankaran

Many ways to open doors

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: innovative service models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Clarissa Mulas, Ranya Yacou & Una Turalic

Mapping the experience of engagement: Refugee women in a new community

  • Session Title: Refugee health: engagement and access
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Martin Harris & Nevenka Alempijevic

Marked for discrimination: Stigma against African Australians living with

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: responding to emerging issues and epidemics
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 11.35am
  • Authors: Chris Lemoh, Alan Street, Margaret Hellard, Samia Baho, Jeffrey Grierson, Beverley-Ann Biggs

Meaningful Therapeutic Practice with CALD Families living with Mental Illness

  • Session Title: Mental health: population groups
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Magio Konidaris

Meeting in the Middle: Findings from a Transcultural Rural and Remote Outreach Project

  • Session Title: Mental health research
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Maria Cassaniti and Michele Sapucci, Transcultural Mental Health Centre (NSW); Anne Tonna and Associate Professor Paul Fanning, Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health

Mental Health in everybody's language

  • Session Title: Communicating mental health and mental illness
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Angelika Tyrone, Phil Jones, Robert Habel

Mothering and embodied perceptions of health, illness and pain among women in New and Emerging Communities in Australia”

  • Session Title: Challenging notions of maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Nelia Hyndman-Rizik

Multicultural Information Online (MIDonline): Effects of an online multilingual depression intervention resource on mental health knowledge and stigma

  • Session Title: Reducing the stigma of mental illness
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Litza Kiropoulos, Kathleen Griffiths, Grant Blashki

NAATI Paraprofessional Preparatory Support Project

  • Session Title: Language service workforce quality
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Debbie Ellam & Therese Morris

Negotiating the language maze: a personal reflection on language issues in the realm of CALD mental health

  • Session Title: Mental health research
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Elida Meadows

Off the beaten track: Explorations in uncertainty for Maternity health professionals

  • Session Title: Challenging notions of maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Ruth DeSouza

On the Other Side of the Looking Glass

  • Session Title: Mental health: population groups
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Naomi Kikkawa; Luba Varlakov

One problem, many messages: How to tell a culturally appropriate story on problem gambling

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: culturally targeted health promotion
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Zayne D'Crus and Mary Gavranic

Peace Building for Dialogue and Inclusion. A Social Health Community based program of the people, by the people and for the people.

  • Session Title: Multiculturalism in media and advocacy
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Juma Piri Piri and John Lenga

Perceptions of Health and Type 2 Diabetes in a South Sudanese Community

  • Session Title: Understanding diabetes
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Dr Sern Wei Yeoh, Dr John Furler

Photo voice Project-Harmonising Colours, All shapes and sizes

  • Session Title: Good practice in maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Saulan Beverly Yin-Lo

Playgroup for a healthy start

  • Session Title: Good practice in maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Yabbo Thompson & Fatmata Fofanah

Powerful Stories, Inspiring Narratives, Introducing the MMHA CALD Speakers Bureau

  • Session Title: Innovation in mental health services
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Vicki Katsifis and Genelle Sharrock

Practical Diagnostic Tools for Cross-cultural Mental Health

  • Session Title: Mental health: diagnostic tools and treatment models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Dr Jill Benson

Recognising and celebrating Brimbank's diversity in volunteering

  • Session Title: Volunteerign and CALD Communities
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Brimbank City Council

Reducing mental illness stigma to encourage social inclusion for Australian’s from CALD communities

  • Session Title: Reducing the stigma of mental illness
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Melissa Elston

Reflections and Learnings from Working with Refugee Communities on Problem Gambling

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: innovative service models
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Mary Gavranic

Refugee and Asylum Seeker Experiences of General Practitioner Services in Countries of Resettlement – an international literature review

  • Session Title: Refugee health: engagement and access
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Dr. I-Hao Cheng, Prof. Leon Piterman, Assoc. Prof. Peter Schattner

Refugee background young people and schools: important opportunities to promote health and wellbeing

  • Session Title: Refugee young people and transitions
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: J. Grant and S. McGuffie

Refugee School Health Program

  • Session Title: Refugee young people and transitions
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Chelsea Taylor, Moira Mullumby

Representations and Coverage of Non-English-Speaking Migrants and Multicultural Issues in Australian Healthcare Publications

  • Session Title: Health research and analysis
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Pamela W Garrett, Hugh G Dickson, Anna Klinken Whelan, Linda Whyte.

Respecting cultural diversity: responding to the needs of people with chronic hepatitis B.

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: responding to emerging issues and epidemics
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 11.35am
  • Authors: Wallace, J., McNally, S. and Richmond, J.

Responding to the Sexual Health Needs of Refugee Youth

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: working with CALD young people
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Soulmaz Rostami

Screening for Family Violence within the Maternal and Child Health Service

  • Session Title: Practitioner perspectives on family vioklence prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Helen Cunningham & Anne Colahan

Self-care related perspectives of Chinese people with type 2 diabetes living in Australia

  • Session Title: Understanding diabetes
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Ms Yen Yang, Pro Trisha Dunning, and Dr Bodil Rasmussen

Sending the Right Message: Use and Access of ICT for Communicating Health Messages to Diverse Communities

  • Session Title: Social marketing tools and techniques
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Prof. Hurriyet Babacan, Dr Ben O'Mara and Prof. Helen Borland

Sexual function of Malay Muslim women with diabetes mellitus: contradicting finding in Malaysia

  • Session Title: Diabetes research, treatment and prevention
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Sazlina Kamaralzaman, Hatta Sidi, Matthew Yau, Siti Balkis Budin, Anuar Sani, Jamaludin Mohamed

Sexual health of resettled young people with refugee backgrounds

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: when health is global and local
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Celia McMichael and Sandra Gifford

Sign of the times

  • Session Title: Language service systems
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Audrey Dropsy, Bernice Murphy and Marc Curtis

sister2sister:talking sexual health with young African women.

  • Session Title:
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  • Authors: Chiedza Malunga

Skilling Queensland Health Staff in Working Cross Culturally

  • Session Title: Training for structural change
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Gail Hyslop

Stepping Out of the Shadows in the Goulburn Valley

  • Session Title: Refugee perceptions of health and health services
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Angela Devoti & Melissa Metcalf

Stepping Out of the Shadows – Reducing stigma about mental illness in Australia’s CALD communities

  • Session Title: Reducing the stigma of mental illness
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Rajiv Ramanathan

still catching up

  • Session Title: Right to health
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Tatjana Bahro

Suicidality in CALD communities living in Australia: A public health void

  • Session Title: Suicide prevention
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Professor Abd-Elmasih Malak AM, Director, Diversity Health Institute; Maria Cassaniti, Centre Coordinator, Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW; Helen Jevons, Senior Research Officer,, Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW

Suicide and the situation of violence among young indigenous people at the reservation of Dourados-MS-Brazil

  • Session Title: International social planning
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Maria de Lourdes Beldi de Alcantara

Suicide in first-generation migrants in Australia: 1976 - 2006

  • Session Title: Suicide prevention
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Ide N, Kolves K, De Leo D

Supporting Community Leaders: A strategy for enhancing the wellbeing of refugee communities

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 9 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Robin Gregory, Nicole van Os, Peter Carlon

Supporting Social Inclusion for Refugee Youth

  • Session Title: Social inclusion and young people
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Karen Block, Elisha Riggs, Lisa Gibbs, Deborah Warr

Supporting the right to health through culturally competent health literacy with newly-arrived African communities in Victoria.

  • Session Title: Health literacy
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Green J, Williamson L, Renzaho A, Eisenbruch M, Waters E, Holt L

Supporting Vietnamese Drug Offenders

  • Session Title: Alcohol, drugs and the justice system
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Helen Sowey and Thanh Van Nguyen

Survival of the Resilient: How cultural resilience is a determinant of migrant mental health

  • Session Title: Mental health research
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Annemarie Nevill

Talking about Teeth: Addressing barriers to accessing oral health services for Sub-Saharan African residents of the Flemington housing estate.

  • Session Title: Improving oral health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Carmel Hobbs

Talking Faiths – an interfaith project bringing students together to share their stories.

  • Session Title: Multi-faith issues
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Tatiana Mauri

Targeting interventions for HIV prevention among migrants in Chandigarh (India)

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: when health is global and local
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Rajesh Kumar, Manmeet Kaur, JS Thakur

Thank you for listening, but please tell me what to do!

  • Session Title: Multicultural mental health
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 10.50am
  • Authors: Kali Paxinos

The ‘multi’ in ‘multi culture’: Why don’t health professionals ‘get it’?

  • Session Title: Challenging notions of maternal and child health
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Julian Grant

The Avatar Experience in Health Care Delivery

  • Session Title: Health literacy
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Members of Cultural Diversity Committee

The call for an interfaith global health initiative

  • Session Title: Multi-faith issues
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Dr Sima Barmania

The Challenges of Maintaining Good Practice – a ‘culturally responsive’ health service perspective

  • Session Title: Cultural competence in theory and practice
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Lena Dimopoulos

The Cultural Key Phrases Tool in Initial Dysphagia Assessment

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in assessment, care and management
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Courtney Pocock

The dinamicity of resettlement: Changes over time in health status and use of health services among recently arrived men from refugee backgrounds

  • Session Title: Refugee perceptions of health and health services
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Ignacio Correa-Velez & Gerald Onsando

The effectiveness of cross-cultural training: Implications of recent Australian research for health services

  • Session Title: Responding to diversity
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Robert Bean

The Examination of Chronic Effects of Diabetes on Diabetic Patients consulting to Mashhad Parsian Diabetes Center, 2008

  • Session Title: The Examination of Chronic Effects of Diabetes on Diabetic Patients consulting to Mashhad Parsian Diabetes Center, 2008
  • Scheduled:
  • Authors: Morteza jafarian,medical student of mashhad medicine UNIVERSITY

The Examination of Cardio vascular complications In diabetic patients consulting to Mashhad Parsian Diabetes Center, 2008

  • Session Title: The Examination of Cardio vascular complications In diabetic patients consulting to Mashhad Parsian Diabetes Center, 2008
  • Scheduled:
  • Authors: Hengameh ebrahimi, RN,Member of Youth Researches club –Islamic Azad University

The family carer - unrecognised issue for health policy and practice

  • Session Title: Carers
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Alice Morgan, Janelle Falkner, Lisa Sinha

The Garden Snails Ambulates with Tardiness: An Argument for Simple English

  • Session Title: Health literacy
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Libby Matheson

The MC mental health landscape in Australia

  • Session Title: The multicultural mental health landscape
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: georgia zogalis

The media, mental health issues and the CALD community.

  • Session Title: Communicating mental health and mental illness
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Jaelea Skehan and Genelle Sharrock

The National MMHA CALD Consumer Reference Group Making it Work - CALD consumer participation driving mental health reform and the reduction of stigma in CALD communities in Australia

  • Session Title: Carer and consumer perspectives on mental health
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Vicki Katsifis and Evan Bichara and members of the National MMHA CALD Consumer Reference Group

The only thing for the pain” – co-morbidity, diversity, exclusion and the right

  • Session Title:
  • Scheduled:
  • Authors: George Klein, Maria Cassaniti, Echo Morgan, Ranya Yacou, Transcultural Mental Health Centre, NSW

The perceived missing link - A carer's perspective on mental health care

  • Session Title: Carer and consumer perspectives on mental health
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Frank Filardo

The Prince Charles Hospital Multicultural Working Group as the Community Consultation Model

  • Session Title: Community mental health services
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Bozica Stumfol, Sharon Stocker and Anne Gooley

The Queensland Health Organisational Cultural Competency Framework: Opportunities, challenges and innovative solutions to building cultural integrity in health services

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in systems and frameworks
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Shelley Kulperger, Ellen Hawes

The responses of nine UNHCR resettlement countries to HIV positive refugees

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: when health is global and local
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Fiona H McKay, Susan Kneebone, Samantha L Thomas, Jim Hyde

The role of reception staff in supporting access and inclusiveness - A case study of North Richmond Community Health

  • Session Title: Inclusive service delivery
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Wendi Hobbins

The Urban Poor, the Informal Sector and Environmental Health Policy in Nigeria

  • Session Title: International social planning
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Geoffrey I. Nwaka

The WHICH and the White Woman: The Woman-to-Woman Participatory Model of Health Education

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Regina Quiazon

Title of Abstract: The Role of Community Based Mental Health Services in meeting the Needs of People from CALD Backgrounds

  • Session Title:
  • Scheduled:
  • Authors: Deborah Winkler

Towards best practice in organisational cultural competency

  • Session Title: Cultural integrity in systems and frameworks
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Veronika Pradel, Christine Armit, Elisha Riggs, Lisa Gibbs, Rehana Chowdhry, Amal El-Khoury, Leila Alloush, Elizabeth Waters

Training Bilingual Staff for Health and Community Services

  • Session Title: Building a bilingual workforce
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Rachel Wilson and Gilly Robson

Training Healthcare Interpreters

  • Session Title: Language service workforce quality
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Leah Bramhill (VMC) & Shani Tobias (Monash University)

Translating for Australian audiences: fact and fiction

  • Session Title: Found in translation
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: Eva Hussain

Translation - A process or product?

  • Session Title: Found in translation
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 2.20pm
  • Authors: AYLEN, Tracy; MICHAEL, Jaklina

Turning into the right frequency; a radio campaign for Chinese and Arabic speaking communities

  • Session Title: Breakfast radio
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Eugenia Georgopoulos

Understanding dementia: Empowering the community through peer education

  • Session Title: Dementia care and education
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Lynn Cain (to be presented by Denise Laroque)

Understanding the barriers and enablers to seeking emergency medical care for Acute Coronary Syndrome within CALD communities

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Christopher Poulter, Harry Patsamanis

Understanding the experiences of recently arrived refugees in accessing primary health care in Brisbane

  • Session Title: Refugee perceptions of health and health services
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Paula Peterson, Donata Sackey and Dr Ignacio Correa-Velez

Understanding the mental health and wellbeing of Afghan women in South East Melbourne

  • Session Title: Refugee perceptions of health and health serrvices
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Angela Rintoul, Josef Szwarc, Ben Smith

Using theatre to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness in the Macedonian community

  • Session Title: Innovation in mental health services
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Lisa Woodland, Dushan Ristevski, Suzanna Kirov, Vince Ponzio and Dr Ilse Blignault

Vietnamese-Australian electronic gaming machine (EGM) gamblers’ views on luck and winning: Universal and culture-specific gambling beliefs

  • Session Title: Problem gambling: engaging with client belief systems
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Keis Ohtsuka

Web 2.0 and cultural diversity mobilisation

  • Session Title: Multiculturalism in media and advocacy
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 1.20pm
  • Authors: Andrew Jakubowicz

What drives people to volunteer in the social welfare system?

  • Session Title: Volunteering and CALD communities
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 1.50pm
  • Authors: Zoe Pelteki

What works and does not work in providing effective mental health services to young people from refugee background

  • Session Title: Refugee young people and transitions
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 JUne, 2.10pm
  • Authors: Dr Erminia Colucci, A/Prof. Harry Minas (Centre for International Mental Health, The University of Melbourne), and Josef Szwarc (Foundation House).

Why is Female Genital Mutilation treated as a separate issue from

  • Session Title: FGM
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Family Planning Victoria (Claire Naffah)

Working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background communities on sensitive health issues

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: a strategic mix of service models
  • Scheduled: Monday 7 June, 2.50pm
  • Authors: Zhihong Gu

Working with diversity to optimise refugee primary health care

  • Session Title: Refugee health: engagement and access
  • Scheduled: Wednesday 9 June, 8.15am
  • Authors: Rebecca Farley, Deborah Askew, Margaret Kay

You Can Do I can Do- Diversity and Disability

  • Session Title: Innovation in community education
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 1.10pm
  • Authors: Nikki Marshall

YOUNG CAMBODIANS TAKE THE CHALLENGE OF HIV/AIDS TO THEIR COMMUNITY

  • Session Title: Culture, health & sexuality: working with CALD young people
  • Scheduled: Tuesday 8 June, 7.45am
  • Authors: Sabri W. and Seng S.