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As part of Rainbow Vaccination Week (18-22 Oct), a group of youth, health and LGBTQIA+ organisations have come together to help some of Victoria’s most vulnerable young people and LGBTQIA+ community members access COVID vaccines. cohealth’s vaccination team will operate a FabJab pop-up clinic from Drummond Street Services from 19-22 October.
Read morecohealth has joined with Maribyrnong Council to open a pop-up vaccination clinic at the Quang Minh Buddhist temple in Braybrook which will operate from 4-8 October and a second vaccination clinic at the Australia Light Foundation mosque in Tottenham (11-15 October). The Venerable Thich Phuoc Tan, the Abbot of the Quang Minh temple, said that supporting the vaccination rollout was aligned with Buddhist philosophy to end suffering.
Read morecohealth is proud to be working as part of a network of organisations supporting more than 700 people who have recently arrived from Afghanistan, providing a health assessment, settlement support and COVID vaccinations to the new arrivals who are currently staying in city hotels.
Read moreA statement from Nicole Bartholomeusz, Chief Executive, cohealth: “I am distressed to report that there have been several incidents of cohealth health workers in the city being physically and verbally abused while on their way to work, targeted because they were wearing their cohealth identification. Due to the increasingly violent and unpredictable nature of the protests in the city, we have made the difficult decision to close the cohealth Melbourne Town Hall vaccination Centre as well as our Central City homelessness service, and our street based outreach services until Monday.”
Read morecohealth has welcomed the Victorian Government’s latest investment to boost mental health and wellbeing support for Victorians through 20 state-wide ‘pop-up’ COVID-19 mental health and wellbeing services. People will be able to access the services via a free 1300 number and website which will connect them with trained mental health workers in their area, who are based at community health services such as cohealth, and community managed mental health services.
Read moreThe City of Melbourne and cohealth are establishing a new COVID vaccination centre at the iconic Melbourne Town Hall to reach some of the city’s most vulnerable. The cohealth Melbourne Town Hall Vaccination centre will initially prioritise those facing disadvantage, including rough sleepers, people with English literacy limitations, refugees, and international students. Lord Mayor Sally Capp said the partnership with cohealth is designed to ensure everyone has equal access to the vaccine, with or without a Medicare card.
Read moreThe latest figures on drug overdose deaths are further proof of the need for a greater health-based approach to drug use, rather than law enforcement, says community health service cohealth, which provides drug and alcohol support and treatment for people who use drugs and alcohol in Melbourne’s north and west. Penington Institute today released its annual Australia’s Overdose Report, which showed that 1,644 Australians died of unintentional overdose in 2019, a small decrease on the previous year’s figures. Tragically, the state of Victoria saw an increase in unintentional overdoses from 425 people in 2018 to 449 people in 2019.
Read moreWith a July report from the Victorian Coroner’s Court revealing that 187 people died of heroin overdose in 2020, cohealth says that is more important than ever to take a harm-reduction approach to drug use in the community. cohealth’s records reveal that 400 cohealth clients over the last three years reported using their training and their allocation of Naloxone to save someone else’s life; the equivalent of two lives per week.
Read moreThe State Government’s response to recent COVID outbreaks at the Flemington high rise has demonstrated the value of a community-lead response that puts health and social support needs first, says community health service cohealth. cohealth has praised the high-rise community for working together to keep each other safe, and following the latest health advice as further cases were identified. “The past 12 months have been especially hard for this community. We owe a debt of thanks to every resident at Flemington high-rise for quickly following health advice and looking after each other,” said Nicole Bartholomeusz, Chief Executive, cohealth.
Read morecohealth will this week administer its 25,000th dose of the COVID vaccine since it began its vaccination program in May. The vaccine is expected to be administered from cohealth’s West Melbourne clinic, one of several vaccination clinics the community health agency is currently operating across the northern and western suburbs including from Laverton and Collingwood cohealth sites and pop-up clinics at public housing high-rise estates, homelessness services and high-risk accommodation sites.
Read moreTo coincide with Homelessness Week 2021, not-for-profit community health service, cohealth, is urging the Federal Government to invest in more social housing as a mechanism to directly improve the health of Australians. “As a community health service that supports people facing disadvantage, we see the first-hand impacts of homelessness and poor housing,” said Nicole Bartholomeusz, Chief Executive, cohealth.
Read morecohealth says a new report released by the Victorian Coroner’s Court revealing more than 4,500 people have died by overdose in the past decade is a tragic reminder that drug stigma is still preventing people from seeking support.
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