Increasing our capacity to service the community

Our aim is to deliver 50 health sessions to refugee and migrant communities around Victoria by the end of 2013. We're now recruiting a further 50 new doctors, allied health professionals and final year medical students to help us achieve this aim.

Our Induction session will cover:

  1. Introduction to The Water Well Project
  2. Communication tools for working with refugees/ migrants
  3. Introduction to common refugee/ migrant health issues
  4. Introduction to a few relevant organisations- Brotherhood of St Laurence, Foundation House
  5. Appropriate referrals
  6. Introduction to facilitation (interactive workshop)

Click here to register for the event if you are a healthcare professional.

Here's some examples of feedback from previous sessions...

  • "It was a great balance of presenters and topics, really great to have the combination of topics and perspectives."
  • "The facilitating session was a very important and worthwhile part of induction."
  • "I learnt a lot about this initiative, and got a wonderful overview of how it works.  The role play was very beneficial."

Induction