Advocacy Piece

The Intercultural Young Advocacy Leaders (IYAL) program is a pathway for young people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to develop advocacy, governance and leadership experience. The two-year program also provides ECCV with advice and input on matters affecting CALD youth in Victoria, adding another important voice for multicultural Victoria. IYAL is a sub-committee of the ECCV Board which helps connect ECCV with CALD young people across Victoria, while developing future leadership pathways within and between ECCV members.

How’s Your Haal? This report is a summary of the conversations we held as part of our initiative, How’s Your Haal? (‘HYH’). The HYH Project is the WA chapter of a national youth leadership program administered by the Australian Multicultural Foundation (‘AMF’) and is funded by the Australian Government, Department of Social Services. The purpose of this program was to bring young people together to develop an intervention strategy to address an issue of concern within our collective context.

Health is a human right, for everyone. Multicultural lived experience is the missing voice in the Australian healthcare system. Evidence shows that health services co-designed with the people who use them, are more effective. Australia is one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse nations in the world. Multicultural lived experience is a large missing voice.