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Working Effectively with the Croatian Community

Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council invites staff and volunteers who support or are likely to support clients from Croatian background to a Workshop on Effectively Working with the Croatian Community:

When: Thursday, 27th November 2014, 11am-1pm
Where: BRMC at GPLACE, 102 English Street, Golden Point 3350

This workshop aims to raise cultural awareness of aged and health care workers in delivering services to people from Croatian background. The briefing will be facilitated by Silvana Pavlovski from the Australian Croatian Community Services.

The session will inform about local demographics, customs, beliefs, health issues, attitudes towards older people and aged care, barriers in accessing services and tips on working effectively with clients from a Croatian background.

For further information on the program and to register by 20th November 2014, contact Katja Fiedler, Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council on Ph. (03) 5332 59 41 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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 Acknowledgements

Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing acknowledges and pays respect to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, on whose land this website was developed. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, their ancestors and elders, both past and present and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, sea and community. We hope our work contributes to the wider project of respect and recognition between cultures in Australia. Centre for Cultural Diversity in Ageing receives project funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care to administer the Partners in Culturally Appropriate Care (PICAC) program in Victoria.

 

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37% of people aged 65 years and over in Australia were born overseas.
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There are over 400 separately identified languages spoken in Australian homes.
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Australians follow more than 120 religious and spiritual beliefs.
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28% percent of people using home care and 20% percent of people using permanent residential care are from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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36% of care attendants in residential aged care are identified as being from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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Australia’s Indigenous peoples are two distinct cultural groups made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. But there is great diversity within these two broadly described groups exemplified by the over 250 different language groups spread across the nation.