Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Aged Care System Navigator Program

Overview

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to enable culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) consumers, their families and carers to understand and engage with the aged care system and access services that are appropriate to their needs. Activities under the CALD aged care system navigator program will seek community feedback on the challenges and barriers people from CALD backgrounds, their families and carers face when navigating the aged care system and address them by facilitating access to aged care services in their community. This will be achieved through a series of virtual or face-to-face town hall sessions, workshops, webinars, videos and small face-to-face workshops, led by the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA). FECCA will facilitate the sessions amongst general practitioners, community/business leaders and the general CALD population. Further to these activities, FECCA will also develop and disseminate in-language videos and in-language printed materials on aged care support to older people, their family members, carers and friends and provide information through community ethnic radio to older people and the broader community. The Program will run for two years from 2020-21 to 2021-22. To view the Grant Opportunity Guidelines, please select the red "GO Documents" button on the left hand side.