Publications & Resources

Foundation House produces a range of publications and resources that aim to share our expertise and advance the health, wellbeing and human rights of people from refugee backgrounds who have experienced torture and trauma.

Our Approach

• Integrated Trauma Recovery Service Model
• A Framework for Community Capacity Building
• Rebuilding Shattered Lives – Second Edition

Our History

• Annual Reports
• In Our Own Words: the 30th anniversary of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc.
• More Than Just Words: the 20th anniversary of the Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture Inc.

Early Years

• The Early Childhood Access and Participation Project: talking with Chin families from Burma about early childhood services
• Raising Children in Australia: a resource kit for early childhood services working with parents from African backgrounds

Schools

• School is Where You Need to be Equal and Learn: insights from students of refugee backgrounds on learning and engagement in Victorian secondary schools 
• School’s In for Refugees: a whole-school approach to supporting students and families of refugee backgrounds (2nd ed)
• Schools and Families in Partnership: A desktop guide to engaging families from refugee backgrounds in their child’s learning
• Educating Children from Refugee Backgrounds: a partnership between schools and parents
• Talk’s In: families of refugee backgrounds and schools in dialogue
• The Rainbow Program for Children in Refugee Families: a collaborative, school-based program to support refugee children and their families
• Taking Action: human rights and refugee issues teaching resource
• Klassroom Kaleidoscope: a program to facilitate connectedness and wellbeing in the culturally diverse classroom
• The Education Needs of Young Refugees in Victoria 

Refugee Health

• Australian Refugee Health Practice Guide
• A Guide to Working with Young People who are Refugees: strategies for providing individual counselling and group work
• Young People from Refugee Backgrounds Talk About Their Experiences of Mental Health Services: guidance for practitioners
• Having a Baby in a New Country: the views and experiences of Afghan families and stakeholders
• ‘We need to raise our voices’: Advice from people of refugee backgrounds living with disabilities and their carers
  • ‘We need to raise our voices’: Summary of themes (Arabic)
• Responding to challenges of misuse of alcohol and other drugs by young people of refugee backgrounds

Victorian Refugee Health Network Publications

• Under the auspices of Foundation House, the Victorian Refugee Health Network,  collaborates with the refugee health sector, including research centres, to produce topical resources, reports and research

Community Capacity Building

• A Community Engagement Framework: Integrating refugee background communities’ voices into the mental health system reform
• Insights from Community Advisory Groups: Improving access to mental health support for refugee background communities in Victoria
• Key issues in access to mental health care for refugee background communities: A Sector Consultation to inform Victoria’s mental health reforms
• Healthy Mind, Healthy Family, Healthy Community: A mental health advocacy video (Arabic with English subtitles)
• Hope and Life: A mental health advocacy video (Dari with English subtitles)