Multicultural Multifaith Communities

PCV is committed to working with multicultural and multifaith communities to promote palliative care services and advance care planning. A number of successful collaborations and projects over several years have delivered many community engagement activities and provided us with a suite of multilingual resources in over 20 languages.

Recent projects

2024

• Interpreters: The key to engaging multicultural communities
• Promoting palliative care and ACP to members of the Serbian and other multicultural communities   
• Palliative care and multicultural/multifaith LGBTQIA+ communities
• Sharing information about palliative care and advance care planning with the Polish community  
• Raising awareness about palliative care in Muslim communities  
• PCV Glossary of Terms (published in 16 languages)

2023

• Talking about planning ahead with Vietnamese seniors  
• Talking about advance care planning with multicultural communities
• Initiating Care Conversations with the Spanish-Speaking Community
• Palliative care and multicultural/multifaith LGBTQI+ communities 

2022

• Raising awareness within the Indo-Chinese and Vietnamese communities  
• Advance Care Planning conversations in the Serbian community  
• Community Education for Congolese and Bhutanese Communities in Albury-Wodonga  
• Fact Sheet – How Palliative Care Can Help
• United Spanish Latin American Welfare Centre introduces staff to the palliative approach

Previous project reports

• Serbian palliative support project – 2019 - 2021
• Spanish Latin American palliative support project – 2019 -2021
• Ethiopian palliative support project – 2019 -2021
• Culturally Responsive Palliative Care 2013-2015 - Short Summary
• Culturally Responsive Palliative Care 2013-15 - Evaluation Executive Summary