Australian Health Directory

Advocacy and Diversity Program

Prahran Mission

Prahran, VIC 3181

The Advocacy and Diversity Program of the Prahran Mission offers support to people from multicultural backgrounds and LGBTIQ communities who have a psychiatric disability.

Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland Ltd

West End, QLD 4101

The Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland offers a wide range of services including information and resources in languages other than English, referral services, education, in-home care for the aged through Diversicare and residential aged care at the Berlasco Court Caring Centre.

Offices in Brisbane, Redcliffe, Mt Gravatt, Cairns, Townsville, Sunshine Coast and West Moreton.

Diabetes Australia

Turner, ACT 2612

Diabetes Australia provides information for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities and health professionals working with them.

Transcultural psychiatry and Cultural competence

Professor Maurice Eisenbruch

South Yarra, VIC 3141

Supporting and collaborating with health providers; evidence based; values-based; culturally competent - making sense and effective in the light of the cultural background and spiritual orientation of patient and family.

Website for lay readers and health professionals - resources on cross-cultural health, diversity management and cultural competence; articles; RSS feeds

Wuchopperen Health Service Limited

Cairns, QLD 4870

Wuchopperen Health Service Limited (WHS) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service that offers a wide range of wholistic primary health care services. These include a General Clinic, Womens health, ante/postnatal, Child health, a range of Allied Health services and Oral health services. We also offer Counselling and Support, Child Wellbeing services and a Children & Family Centre.

RusCare

Dandenong South, VIC 3175

RusCare provides a range of services to people in Melbourne with Russian and Slovenic backgrounds that includes: aged care (nursing home, hostel and independent living); home and community care; social connection through groups; meals on wheels and palliative care. It also offers support and assistance for newly arrived migrants.

Mamu Cultural Wellbeing Centre

Innisfail, QLD 4860

A service for Aboriginal people in Innisfail.

OzPol Community Care Association Inc (OzPol)

Brisbane, QLD 4000

OzPol, a non profit organisation, provides CACPs, HACC, respite and a range of information, support and advocacy services to the aged, infirm and disadvantaged. We have clients from multicultural backgrounds including Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Croatian, Hungarian, Serbian, French and German.

Multicultural Communities Council Illawarra

Wollongong, NSW 2500

The Multicultural Communities Council Illawarra is a community based non for profit organisation which seeks to represent the broad interests of people from CALD backgrounds in the Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama and Shoalhaven LGAs. With recent expansion, the MCCI is also delivering services in NSW and the ACT

Migrant Information Centre (Eastern Melbourne) (MIC)

Box Hill, VIC 3128

The MIC provides information related to a range of issues including aged care & disability, family support, health and youth services. Direct assistance is offered to clients who face barriers accessing HACC services to access these and related services. A friendly visitors service is offered to socially isolated people from CALD communities in receipt of Cth funded home care and residential care.