The WOMHEn Project

Women's Health in the South East (WHISE) has established a new multilingual health educator team. The team will be working closely with South East Asian, migrant and refugee women throughout the Southern Metropolitan Region of Victoria to:

1. Listen and learn from women experiencing intersectional disadvantage in the community about their health and wellbeing, providing support and referral where possible.
2. Provide health education to community, raise awareness of COVID-19 and reduce vaccine hesitancy.
3. Collect evidence of the health and wellbeing of women in the community, their lived experience through the pandemic.
4. Enable WHISE and the sector more broadly, to identify and redress power structures inherent in the health system and structures, that reinforce inequality

Funded by the Victorian Government through the ‘Working for Victoria’ program, the health education team are part of a state wide project called The WOMHEn Project (Workforce of Multilingual Health Educators).

WOMHEn focuses on good health promotion within migrant communities. WHISE is also proud to be a part of the Victorian Government's COVID Ambassador Program which has provided additional support to further resource our work to reduce vaccine hesitancy.