Coronavirus (COVID-19) Information and Resources
Where to find the latest information and translated resources to keep your consumers informed
“Engaging your Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Seniors in times of COVID-19” Webinar
What are the lessons learned from the coronavirus epidemic? Join us to explore examples of good practice from a range of aged care providers across Australia, and discuss their strategies in meeting the needs of culturally diverse clients. You will walk away with an overview of the successes and failures and an idea of where we are heading next as we move to a ‘new normal’.
For aged care services providers (frontline staff, team leaders and managers) who are supporting culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) seniors who live in residential aged care homes or at home.
Recorded Thursday, 2 July, 2020
Program
- PICAC TAS – Facilitating the session
- PICAC NSW & ACT – Diverse needs require a diversity of responses
- PICAC NT – The impact of isolation: CALD-perspectives from residential aged care facilities (RACFs)
- PICAC SA -Evidence from two state-wide surveys: what organisations have been doing and what they have learnt so far
- PICAC VIC – Experiences from the Australian Multicultural Community Services
- PICAC WA – Organisational development for the post-COVID-19 world
Translated Resources
SBS Multilingual Coronavirus Portal
SBS has developed the SBS Multilingual Coronavirus Portal, to provide an accurate and trusted news and information about COVID-19, in more than 60 languages. It’s a one-stop-shop where communities can come for the latest news and resources, produced by SBS Radio and SBS News, complementing and curating information from SBS’s dedicated services delivered on radio, mobile app and online.
SBS has also created short videos providing facts and essential information about coronavirus in 30 different languages, available via the portal or watch them here.
Department of Health
The Department of Health has translated coronavirus (COVID-19) resources into several community languages and the list keeps expanding each day.
A list of resources about COVID-19 in other languages. The resources include fact sheets, guidelines and other publications.
They have also provided on their YouTube channel, the SBS videos in community languages.
Ethnolink Multi-Lingual Resource Library
Ethnolink Language Services have pulled together a Multi-Lingual Resource Library of the various translated resources available from different sources, including the Department of Health and other state health departments.
Currently there are 60 CALD community languages and 18 indigenous languages available.
Updates and other Information
Department of Health
The Department of Health Coronavirus (COVID-19) health alert
Updated daily with the latest information and official medical advice.
Includes translated resources and community factsheets.
Australian Government
The Australian Government Coronavirus (COVID‑19) site is regularly updated to give you the latest coronavirus news, updates and advice from government agencies across Australia.
Also includes state based sources.