serving the settlement communities of Shepparton and District
The Annual General Meeting of the Ethnic Council of Shepparton will take place on Thursday 24th September 2020 at 8.00pm. Due Covid-19 restrictions by the Government, the process for the virtual meeting will be determined and advised to all Members. New members are welcome.
The Latrobe University Bold Thinking series will examine how the COVID-19 virus exposes our community and economic vulnerabilities, as well as their strengths. How can we support regional communities to ride the social, health and economic shockwaves of the COVID-19 pandemic? With local speaker Sam Atukorala, you are invited to join on Tuesday 15 September 2020 12:00 pm, online.
You are invited to join an online launch Resilience Against Racism and a panel discussion on racism towards people of Asian appearance due to COVID-19. Funded by Study Victoria and the Scanlon Foundation, the sessions have been developed by Cultural Intelligence and Beyond Story with the aim to help people build personal and community resilience to cope with adversaries such as racism. The first session online is a projec launch online, on 17 September at 12:30pm
The Australian Institute of Family Studies via the Child Family Community Australia has produced a set of resources for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families.
The Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence (Munarra) will be a new precinct for excellence in sports, health sciences and education for the entire community.
How do you support women and girls you treat who have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting? The National Education Toolkit for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Awareness can provide you with assistance with its postcards.
Victoria Police has launched multilingual videos to encourage people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities to seek help if they are experiencing family violence.
The videos are available in English, Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Dari, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Pashto, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhalese, Somali, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.
The Victorian Government and the Victorian Multicultural Commission is gearing up to honour people and organisations that have strengthened the state’s multiculturalism. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Ros Spence today opened nominations for the Victorian Multicultural Awards for Excellence, which pay tribute to champions of diversity and others who have supported Victorians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
As part of COVID-19 Community Outreach, the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria is seeking people to fill Community Outreach positions. There are multiple vacancies, and people with multi-lingual skills would be at an advantage.
Changes to the Adult Migrant English Program are among a number of moves the government is making to boost social cohesion as Australia emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. Permanent residents and citizens with poor English will be given unlimited language classes, and aspiring Australians will face a tougher values test amid challenges to social cohesion from the coronavirus pandemic and foreign interference.