Communicating with Victoria's multicultural communities
Culturally appropriate communication creates valuable and meaningful program outcomes. Effective communication helps:
- break down barriers
- improve access to services
- achieve better outcomes for Victoria’s multicultural and multifaith communities.
Interpreting and translation services
Victorian government expenditure on interpreting, translating and language allowance services, 2023–24
Multicultural media campaigns
In 2023–24, Victorian Government policy required that departments and agencies spend at least 15% of their campaign media budget on multicultural media.
Opportunities to learn and grow
The Early Childhood Language Program from the Department of Education (DE) supported around 7,000 4-year-old children in kindergartens to learn in a language other than English.
Employment assistance and career development
Victorian Government programs that supported people from multicultural communities in the workforce.
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