Do you want to help shape how health issues and information is communicated and promoted in your community?
Can you contribute time and teach others to monitor how important health information is being discussed in your community, and help identify misinformation online?
The Health Literacy Unit, Multicultural Services of South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD) invites community minded individuals from refugee backgrounds from South Western Sydney to be part of the South West Digital Health Literacy and Refugee Project.
Over 12 months, the project will provide you with training, support and experience to help you assess quality health information, identify and address misinformation, and engage with local health professionals and social media for your community.
You will be trained to critically review health information and produce engaging social media content.
You will learn how public health organisations make health campaigns for refugee communities and ways to build online engagement for health issues for communities. You will also learn to produce, edit and develop engaging stories and content about health issues important to you and your community.
Participants will be coached by a project team with extensive experience in health communication, identifying and addressing “fake news,” social media engagement and working with multicultural communities.
You don’t need to be an elected community representative or have a health background.
The project is looking for bilingual speakers from refugee backgrounds who live in South Western Sydney who speak any one of the following languages: Arabic, Assyrian, Bosnian, Croatian, Dari, Dinka, Farsi, Hazaraghi, Karen, Krio, Khmer, Kurmanji, Lao, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
Applications close at 5pm on Friday, 5 August.
To submit your expression of interest,