Immigrant Health and Safety Presentation PDF - Cities of Migration

Webinar agendaHealthy Living

Promoting Health and Safety in Immigrant Communities

1) Presentation by Stacey Willcox,

Drowning Prevention Coordinator, WaterSafe Auckland

2) Presentation by Lynn Moran

Executive Director, AMSSA (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies & Service Agencies)

3) Q&A Moderated by Kim Turner, Maytree (Toronto, Canada)

Note: Webinar recording will be available on the website: www.citiesofmigration.ca

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Cities of Migration Webinar SeriesHealthy Living: Promoting Health and Safety in Multicultural Communities

July 2012

Stacey Willcox

Drowning Prevention Coordinator

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Auckland Region is unique

1.4 million people (approx. 30% of NZ population)

37% born overseas

18.9 % Asian

14.4% Polynesian

3% ‘Other’

PLUS

Two coastlines

Three harbours

Two major estuaries

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Drowning statistics 2007-2011

New Zealand Auckland

Asian 8% 12%

Beach 20% 28%

Land based fishing 8% 15%

Immersion accidents 26% 32%

The number of Asian people that drowned in 2011

was 3x the 5-year average

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Good Idea: New Settlers Water Safety Strategy

New Settlers Water Safety Reference Group

•Established in response to the increase of new migrants

drowning and being rescued.

•Share expertise, ideas and resources

•To develop awareness, confidence and ability of New Settler

communities to safely participate in water based activity

•To ensure effective distribution of appropriate information and

resources

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Benefits: From Theory to Practice

• Water Safety is part of orientation programme for

quota refugees into NZ

• Water Safety talks to International Schools/Units &

Adult Community education

• Practical workshops at the local pool or beach

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Benefits: From Theory to Practice

• Resources developed in various languages: Chinese,

Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Somali,

Hindi, Farsi, Samoan, Tongan

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Engaging the community: Events

• Auckland Migrant Expo

• Chinese Food & Moon festival

• Chinese New Year Festival

• Korean Day Event

• Waitakere Diwali Festival

• HOLI Mela Festival

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Wider outcomes & benefits

For the communities

•Learning about NZ culture, opportunity to practice English skills

•Increased confidence to access wider community services

•Positive interaction with other ethnic groups

•Continued participation in swimming and other aquatic activity

•Decreased mental health and social isolation within community

•Increased employment opportunities

For WaterSafe Auckland

•Opportunity to understand about other cultures

•Increased media interest/uptake, particularly with ethnic media

that traditionally are hard to engage with

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Transferable practices

• Partner with settlement support/language schools as

part of their orientation programmes, then you can

provide further support later

• Consult with the community – ask them what they are

already doing, what they would like to do

• Community events are a good way to increase

awareness in the community so people can get to know

your organisation

• Identify community ‘champions’ who support your work

and can promote the messages within their community

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Transferable practices – replication

• Incorporated into workplace health and safety

programmes

• Use of ESOL water safety toolkit, resources

and DVD are used around NZ and

internationally

• Settlement support agencies frequently use our

resources to not only inform safety messages

but for teaching English

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Conclusion/ Learning Takeaways

• Relationship building is the key!

You may need to meet with your targeted community

numerous time before you can deliver or present your

work

• Identify & meet with people already working in the

community to learn more about the community and see

where you can link in with what’s already going on

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

Conclusion/ Learning Takeaways

• Be aware when translating materials as some people

may not be literate in their own languages

• Make it relevant to your community e.g. why do they

need to learn about water safety, road safety, alcohol

harm etc?

Building A Water Safety Culture Through Education

References:

Moran, K. & Willcox. S.(2010). New settlers, old problem: Facilitating water safety education for

new residents in aquatically oriented New Zealand. J. Pacific-Asian Education, 22(2), 49-60.

Statistics New Zealand. (2006). Census 2006 data. Retrieved from

http://www.stats.govt.nz/Census/2006CensusHomePage

Water Safety New Zealand (2010). Drowning fact sheet 2005-2009. Wellington: WSNZ. Retrieved

from: http://www.watersafety.org.nz/assets/pdfs/drowning/Ethnicity-Asian-2005-2009.pdf

For more information including reports and resources

please visit

www.watersafe.org.nz

Diversity Health Fair Healthy Living:

Promoting Health and Safety in Immigrant Communities Webinar

July 24th, 2012

About AMSSA

• AMSSA is a province wide

association that strengthens the

capacity of its 70+ member

agencies that serve immigrants

and build culturally inclusive

communities.

Diversity in Vancouver

Total Population of Vancouver: 603,502 *

• A quarter of BC’s immigrants live

in this city

• Foreign born: 45.6%;

• Visible minorities: 51% **

• 50% with a mother tongue

other than English

• Largest ethnic communities: Chinese,

South Asians and Filipino * (2011 Census)

* * (2006 Census)

Challenges

• Newcomers with language and cultural

barriers have difficulty in accessing health

care services

• Health agencies trying to reach newcomer

communities

Solution

• AMSSA developed a model for health fairs

in 2005

• Set up a Steering Committee with multiple

stakeholders

• Collaborative effort to plan, promote and

organize the health fair

Components of

Diversity Health Fairs

• Annual Theme

• Staff and Volunteers

• Exhibitors

• Health Screenings

• Fitness and cooking

demonstrations

• Workshops

• Children’s Activity Area

• Entertainment

Benefits for Participants (Vancouver, 2012)

� Free family event, welcoming environment, onsite access to health screenings, interpreters, translated resources

� 72 % of survey participants increased their

knowledge of cancer prevention and

early detection

� 64% learnt how to access early

detection screening services

� 57 % reported being “a lot more” confident

to make life style changes

� 60% “very likely” use the information received to make life style changes

(Responses provided by a sample of 189 participants speaking the following languages: Cantonese, Korean, Hindi ,Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Persian / Farsi, Persian / Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Tagalog and Vietnamese, DHF- Vancouver 2012).

Benefits for Exhibitors

- Variety of Exhibitors

- High value for

� Information dissemination

(94%)

� Profile building (84%)

� Networking (84%)

(Sample: 50 exhibitors, 2011 Vancouver DHF)

Transferable Practices

- Learning and Growing� 2005 - 2012 - 40 BC Diversity Health Fairs - 42,165 participants

- Unexpected Outcomes� Number of communities interested: Vancouver, Abbotsford, Campbell River,

Kamloops, Kelowna, Maple Ridge, Nanaimo, Prince George, Surrey,Vernon, Victoria, Terrace

� Strong support of ethnic media

� Provincial government agencies attending all the health fairs

Transferable Practices

- Collaboration / Partnership

- Structure of Event

“Good Ideas”

• Know the community

• Partner with multiple

stakeholders

• Take time to plan the event

Thank you

Lynn Moran

[email protected]

www.amssa.org

AcknowledgmentsHealthy Living

Promoting Health and Safety in Immigrant Communities

Stacey Willcox, WaterSafe Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)

Lynn Moran, AMSSA (Affiliation of Multicultural Societies & Service Agencies) (Vancouver, Canada)

Kim Turner, Maytree (Toronto, Canada)

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