Enhancing CALD Cultural Competence
Cultural diversity in the New Zealand population is growing leading to increasing cross cultural interactions between clinicians and patients and between employees.
CALD refers to culturally and linguistically diverse groups who are migrants and refugees from Asian, Middle Eastern, Latin American and African (MELAA) backgrounds.
eCALD educational programme won a major award at the 2018 Diversity Awards NZ
Check out the findings of the newly released “Pre and Post CALD Training Evaluation Study 2018”
Hear what the health workforce have to say about the increasing diversity, the impact it has on cross-cultural interactions and why cultural competence is essential
Take a look at our ‘Cross-cultural Resource for Health Practitioners’ which has tips on Asian, Middle Eastern and African cultures
Check out what we have achieved for the period Feb 2017 to Jan 2018
![Our "Caring for Asian Children" [e-Book] offers strategies on how to be responsive to Asian families when caring for their children!](/assets/PromoGraphics/Asian-Children-Resource.png)
Our "Caring for Asian Children" [e-Book] offers strategies on how to be responsive to Asian families when caring for their children!
A new course "Working in a Mental Health Context with CALD Children and Adolescents" is now available
If you are caring for CALD women during their pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period, here is a resource for you!
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Jan 2019
“You are not alone” – Asian Like Minds Campaign
Asian Family Services have developed video resources as part of their “You are not alone” – Asian Like Minds Campaign to raise awareness of mental health distress to the Asian communities. They have developed the YouTube resources in the following languages: Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Hindi and English.
Jan 2019
Refugee Quota Arrivals and Settlement for the last five years
Since 2014, 4,158 quota refugees have arrived in New Zealand. From 2016, the New Zealand Government accepted Syrian refugees increasing the quota from 750 to 1000 refugees annually. The top 10 nationalities for settlement in New Zealand since 2014 are: Syria (944); Myanmar (740); Afghanistan (537); Colombia (437); Bhutan (205);...