A new educational campaign aims to teach culturally and linguistically diverse communities about the potential health and social impacts of alcohol consumption.
Alcohol and Drug Foundation project lead Kate Naish told SBS News alcohol education has been available for a long time – but not to everyone.“It is really important to see something, to get a message in your own language. We want these communities to be able to engage with this material and identify with it, to have better outcomes,” she said.
“The Chin community is very focused on helping others, and they wanted to participate in this study to help the research and prevent any future problems with alcohol, although there is no record of issues with the [Australian-Chin-Burmese] community,” she said.“We care about our community and we want everyone to understand the potential harms from alcohol.”
“We to be honest with you don’t have the information around issues with alcohol. We do have a shame associated with drinking, because traditionally it is frowned upon so to speak,” he said.Mr Shome said Indian Care’s involvement in the Connecting Diversity Program was motivated by a need to create alcohol education that spoke to the Indian community in ways members would listen.