VTMH June Webinar: Listening Beyond the System: Bicultural voices on Mental Health

The Victorian Bicultural Workers Network (VBCWN), facilitated by cohealth’s Bicultural Program, has launched a new podcast series, Listening Across Cultures: Bicultural Perspectives on Mental Health.

The podcast creates space for Bicultural Workers (BCWs) to share knowledge and insights from their communities about mental health, wellbeing and experiences navigating mainstream services. Through these conversations, the series explores how culture, migration experiences, language and community connection shape understandings of distress, healing and recovery, while also highlighting shared experiences and strengths across diverse cultural communities.

In this presentation, podcast host and cohealth Bicultural Program Lead Jasmine Phillips will share emerging themes from the interviews — including the strengths and leadership within communities, common challenges when engaging with mainstream systems, and BCW reflections on what more culturally safe, community-led responses can look like.

About the speaker
Jasmine is a community development and engagement expert and a qualified interpreter. She has extensive experience working in Australia and internationally with multicultural communities, specifically refugees and people seeking asylum. Jasmine is passionate about community-led, strength-based, intersectional practice and cultural safety. 

Since 2017, Jasmine has worked at cohealth where she developed and continues to lead the bicultural program. Through this role, Jasmine has worked in collaboration with bicultural workers from diverse refugee backgrounds to develop the professional standards for bicultural work, policies, tools and training to build sector capacity to employ bicultural workers in ways that are culturally safe, and community led. Jasmine and her team also host a network of over 500 bicultural workers from across Victoria and offer targeted capacity building, peer support and reflective practice for these workers. 

VTMH webinars are open to individuals, from all disciplines and working in all sectors, who are based in Australia and interested in diversity and mental health.  

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