Refugees report elevated rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but are relatively unlikely to seek help for their symptoms. Mental health stigma is a key barrier to help-seeking amongst refugees. We evaluated the efficacy of an online intervention in reducing self-stigma and increasing help-seeking in refugee men.

5 Ways to Wellbeing has developed five ways to improve psychological and emotional health that are based on extensive international research. The fact sheet has been translated into a number of different languages.

A Community Engagement Framework: Integrating refugee background communities’ voices into the mental health system reform

Mental Health Australia has commissioned research to inform broader stigma and mental health research in CALD communities. This research focuses on Congolese, Arabic-speaking and Mandarin speaking Communities. As part of this research a literature review is available.

Department of Immigration and Citizenship, Commonwealth of Australia. (2012). Access and equity for multicultural Australia: Inquiry into the responsiveness of Australian Government services to Australia's culturally and linguistically diverse population. Belconnen: Author.

Stolk, Y., Minas, I.H., & Klimidis, S. (2008). Access to mental health services in Victoria: A focus on ethnic communities.Fitzroy: Victorian Transcultural Psychiatry Unit.

This article aimed to evaluate the impact of a tailored suicide prevention education program for people working with asylum seekers and refugees. The articles findings suggest that a 2 days tailored suicide prevention education program contributes to significant improvements in workers’ attitudes toward suicide prevention, and their confidence and competence in assessing and responding to suicidal distress. Follow the link to read the article.

NSW Refugee Health Service, NSW Government. (2014). Appointment Reminder Translation Tool. Sydney, NSW: Author. Retrieved 29 Apr 2014

The purpose of the study was to develop and test culturally appropriate health promotion materials that were seen to be socially inclusive in regard to blood donation within the Australian-African community.

The Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide can be used by doctors, nurses and other primary care providers to inform on-arrival and ongoing health care for people from refugee backgrounds, including people seeking asylum. It has been produced by Foundation House (the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc.) in consultation with the Forum of Australian Services fir Survivors of Torture and Trauma (FASSTT) and the Refugee Health Network of Australia (RHeaNA)

This guide includes two principles for improving communications. It explains different ways to communicate, depending on your organisation’s capacity. It also includes examples of good practice multicultural communications. This guide focuses on multicultural communities, but its principles can help everyone.

This research paper explores engagement with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) consumers by facilitating focus group discussions through bicultural fieldworkers in Arabic, Mandarin, Turkish and Dari in a district of Sydney, Australia.

This paper examines the roles that bicultural workers currently play in Victoria’s community services, and the value that they bring to the organisations that employ them and to the communities they serve. It then considers some of the key policy and support issues affecting the state’s bicultural health and care workforce.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is an independent statutory Australian Government agency with more than 30 years of experience working with health and welfare data. Their role is to provide meaningful information and statistics for the benefit of the Australian people. This report provides data on suicide among refugee and humanitarian entrants and other permanent migrants. Data presented in this report are drawn from a larger project investigating the health and welfare of Australia’s refugee and humanitarian entrant populations (AIHW 2023a). This larger project was funded by the Department of Home Affairs and involved linking the Settlement Database (Department of Home Affairs 2019) with other datasets available in the Person-level Integrated Data Asset (PLIDA); formally known as the Multi Agency Data Integration Project (MADIP) (ABS n.d.). Linking the Settlement Database to the PLIDA enabled the identification and analysis of migrant status for deidentified individuals appearing within other PLIDA datasets. For full details follow the link provided.

Following Polaron's forum on CALD co-design, an impact report has been created which highlights ways of overcoming communication barriers. Read more about how the co-design process can be implemented to better support multicultural communities and help organisations share their message.

CIRCA was engaged by the National Suicide Prevention Taskforce, within the Commonwealth Department of Health, and commissioned through the Suicide Prevention Research Fund, managed by Suicide Prevention Australia, to undertake research that will help to build a better understanding about the lived experience of suicide in Australia to inform recommendations to the government. The focus of the research was on people who have attempted suicide or experienced a suicidal crisis and who are from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. Date: 2 December 2020 Research prepared for the National Suicide Prevention Adviser and the National Suicide Prevention Taskforce, commissioned through the Suicide Prevention Research Fund, managed by Suicide Prevention Australia and through the Department of Health

The Bridging Hope Charity Foundation partnered with the Lifeline Research Foundation and DiverseWerks to establish the feasibility of a Chinese language Lifeline service in Australia. The project explored the need for such a service within the Chinese Australian community, as well as cultural appropriateness for delivery of mental health and wellbeing support services and activities, in particular suicide prevention supports.

Embrace and Suicide Prevention Australia have worked closely over the last two years to identify gaps and opportunities in suicide prevention across culturally and linguistically diverse communities. This edition of Closing the Loop reviews key findings from the Embrace Suicide Prevention Pilot Project, which aims to inform best practice and increase sector and community capacity to prevent suicide in culturally and linguistically diverse communities throughout Australia.

These case studies were collated by the Centre for Evidence and Implementation who were engaged by the Embrace Project to evaluate the CALD Community Engagement Project (CCEP). The CCEP supports community-led projects that explore mental health and suicide prevention and co-design solutions that reflect the needs of the community. This case study provides an overview summary of the Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS) and the Southern Migrant and Refugee Centre (SMRC) community projects.

‘Coming Home with Bipolar’ is a comprehensive and practical booklet which helps to close the gap at times of diagnosis/discharge from hospital, educating all carers and families of people with bipolar, making the journey to recovery a positive experience.