Multicultural Community Wellbeing Campaign

Project Name

Mental Health Strategies and Supports during COVID-19

Background

The Multicultural Community Wellbeing Campaign engages closely with young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CALD) to creatively design and promote key messages to help increase meaningful conversations between young people and their family, friends and community networks around mental health strategies and supports.

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the project is to increase mental health literacy amongst the target groups.

The objectives of the campaign are to increase knowledge and skills of young people to have meaningful conversations with family and community networks around mental health strategies and supports.

Partners and funding

The Multicultural Community Wellbeing Campaign is a project by NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service (MHCS) in partnership with the NSW Primary Health Networks, Special Broadcasting Service SBS) and Settlement Services International Inc. (SSI).

The project is funded by the Central and Eastern Sydney Primary Health Network (PHN) with support from the South Western Sydney PHN; WentWest; Nepean Blue Mountains PHN and Sydney North Health Network.

Multicultural Community Well-being Campaign – Launch of the Stay Connected Video

Links to resources

Research: Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on young people from multicultural backgrounds

Radio Ads

Video testimonials from young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds showcase their mental health and well-being journey during the pandemic.

Through online co-design workshops, facilitated by MHCS with SSI Youth Collective, young people collaborated closely with each other to co-produce videos with meaningful personal messages for their families, friends and communities.

Five short individual videos and one combined multilingual video were produced to showcase the heart-warming personal stories by the very passionate and committed young people, Subash, Shahida, Shaimaa, Hala and Achol.

Their stories aim to encourage other young people from CALD communities to have meaningful conversations with family, friends and community networks around mental health support services.

Youth Well-being – Multilingual video