The health of the Council’s employees, volunteers and the Greater Shepparton community is the Shepparton Council’s top priority. Council’s response to the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) is being guided by the latest advice from Commonwealth and State authorities.
With recent news and media coverage about the Coronavirus (COVID-19), following on from a difficult bushfire season, it is normal for children and adults to feel overwhelmed and stressed during this time.
This curated selection of resources will assist parents and carers to best to support their children and reduce worry and distress. It contains a video, factsheets and tips about what you can expect and how you can help children cope.
As part of the $1.7 billion Economic Survival Package, the Victorian Government has announced a $500 million package to assist people who have lost their jobs at this difficult time.
As Australia and the world faces the rapidly escalating COVID-19 crisis, we stand with refugees, people seeking asylum and the organisations working with them.
A pandemic of this nature, unprecedented in our life-times, brings great uncertainty and fear for all of us, but especially the people most vulnerable in our society.
COVID-19 is a new disease that infects the respiratory (breathing) system: the nose, throat and lungs. It is caused by a new type of coronavirus that spreads easily from person to person. Understanding the virus and how it spreads will help you to protect yourself and others. Here, the Red Cross Organisation provides posters in many languages to aid understanding of what to do with the coronavirus challenge.
The Victorian Multicultural Commission will postpone Cultural Diversity Week celebrations until later this year. Following an announcement last week to postpone its main events – Premier’s Gala Dinner and Victoria’s Multicultural Festival – the Commission will not promote Cultural Diversity Week from 21-29 March 2020.
Two UN agencies announced that refugees would no longer be resettled to homes in safe countries. The UN refugee agency and the UN migration agency said resettlement would be suspended as “a temporary measure that will be in place only for as long as it remains essential”.
FECCA, as part of an alliance with the National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA) and Mental Health Australia (MHA), are working on a project about multicultural mental health called ‘Embrace’, focusing on mental health and suicide prevention for people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. An online consultation is offered for those wishing to contribute.
The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District – in the light of the Coronavirus – has decided that it is prudent and responsible to postpone the proposed bus trip to Westfield Fountaingate Shopping Centre until a more suitable date.
Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District will conduct a bus trip from Shepparton to Westfield Fountain Gate at a specified date and notify all how have enrolled.
Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District has decided in the light of the current Coronavirus condition that it is prudent and responsible to postpone the Resume Writing Workshop until a more suitable date.