Let’s Talk Culture- Caring Roles within Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Communities
Ishar presents "Let’s Talk Culture," an enriching event designed to enhance cultural competency in the mental health and well-being space. As service providers, recognizing and addressing the diverse needs of those we serve is crucial. This seminar series provides valuable insights into working with one of the most vulnerable groups in our community: CaLD women. By understanding their unique challenges, we can better support their mental health and overall well-being.
The third seminar of this year, "Exploring Caring Roles within Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CaLD) Communities " will examine the diverse caregiving roles within CaLD communities, emphasising the importance of recognising and understanding varied cultural practices. It will address the unique challenges faced by these caregivers, such as language barriers, social isolation, financial constraints, and cultural stigmas, while also exploring the gendered aspects of caregiving and their impact on family dynamics. Additionally, the seminar will analyze the accessibility of support services for CaLD caregivers and discuss strategies to overcome barriers, aiming to enhance support and resources for this diverse group.
Keynote Speaker 1: Jasmine Kieft - Clinical Psychologist
Jasmine Kieft is a Clinical Psychologist working predominantly with families in supporting healthy development throughout childhood. Jasmine has extensive experience working with infant/child and parent dyads, with the interplay of the mental health of both individuals being supported through therapy. Relationships and connection are at the heart of her therapeutic work. Jasmine has worked within private, public, and nongovernment healthcare systems in the Middle East, UK, and Australia as part of model development, intervention delivery, and research. At Ishar, Jasmine provides therapeutic intervention to children, adolescents, and mothers, as well as clinical supervision to staff.
Keynote speaker 2: Laura Malcolm - Marketing and Engagement Manager
Lived Experience speaker 1: Selina Peng
Selina is passionate about exploring the “spaces in between” and tending the earth there. Her work broadly focuses on improving marginalised people’s access to acceptance and belonging using anti-oppressive practice within an ecological framework, with a special interest in neurodivergence through her social enterprise Neurocraft. As a social worker and former engineer she embraces bottom-up multidisciplinary multimodal approaches to individual empowerment and social justice. She is drawn to the power of personal storytelling to cut through the noise, speak to the soul, and build unlikely bridges. Her own story is dominated by themes of intergenerational trauma, otherness, self-acceptance, and redemption. At age 7 she immigrated to Perth from China during the difficult economic conditions of the early 1990’s, and today she is a proud parent and carer to her two Autistic children. She was herself diagnosed with Autism and ADHD in her late 30’s.
Lived Experience Speaker 2: Manali Trivedi
*Disclaimer: The viewpoints expressed by the speakers in this webinar are entirely their own and do not reflect ISHAR's official opinions or positions.
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