Perth Multicultural HealthLink and Multicultural Health Connect Pilbara focuses on supporting people from multicultural backgrounds with access to primary health care.
Multicultural Health Navigators are co-located across sites in metropolitan Perth and Hedland. Staff are not clinicians, but rather enablers to help patients address common barriers including:
• language issues
• lack of health literacy
• unfamiliarity with the Australian health system.
Offering a blend of individual, family and group work, typical services include helping a client find a GP who speaks their language, obtaining a Medicare card, or accessing information about a particular illness/condition.
Staff also facilitate informational workshops for groups when needed and link patients’ community resources and activities to reduce social isolation.
The Perth team is multilingual and fluent in Arabic, Cantonese, Dari, Farsi, Hazaragi, Mandarin, Pashto, Punjabi, Vietnamese and Urdu. The group also possesses some proficiency in Afrikaans and Spanish.
Both Perth and Pilbara teams have access to interpreter services.
You can direct your patients to self-refer or download a referral form via the links below:
- Download the Perth Multicultural HealthLink Referral Form and email info@pmhl.com.au
- Download the Multicultural Health Connect Pilbara Referral Form and email
rachels@panaceum.com.au
*Perth Multicultural HealthLink is delivered by Arche Health in partnership with Multicultural Futures. Arche Health is also working in-kind with Panaceum Group on their Multicultural Health Connect Pilbara program. This activity is supported by funding from WA Primary Health Alliance under the Australian Government PHN Program.