Melbourne carers film highlights language value
A Melbourne film Like My Own Family: Care, Culture and Language for Older Migrants has highlighted the need for aged carers with second languages by taking viewers into the homes of five frail older migrant families with Turkish, Vietnamese, Assyrian, Somali and Greek backgrounds.
The Northern Migrant Resource Centre produced the film and developed the Certificate III in Aged Care training program in partnership with the Northern Metropolitan Institute of TAFE.
The Centre received $52,000 through the Bracks Government’s $8.4 million Culturally Equitable Gateways Strategy for multicultural workforce development and improved staff recruitment and retention.
