This article was prepared in partnership with Drummond Street Services.

Drummond Street Services, the parent-organisation of Archer Magazine, recently developed a series of fact-sheets and videos to address concerns and needs around COVID-19 for multicultural LGBTIQ+ communities.

Answers to COVID-19 questions in multiple languages

The resources include information around the following questions (click any of the following):

• What do I need to know about getting vaccinated?
• What are my options to get vaccinated?
• What happens after I get vaccinated?
• How do I keep myself, my loved ones and my community safe?

The info is available in multiple languages, including (click any of the following):

• Arabic
• Chinese (Traditional and Simplified)
• Farsi
• French
• Malay
• Spanish
• Tamil
• Japanese

How the COVID-19 resources were developed

Community voices, needs and concerns have been at the heart of this project, and the project has been run by multicultural LGBTIQ+ people for multicultural LGBTIQ+ people.

Between August and October 2021, we engaged with multicultural LGBTIQ+ communities to develop resources that would be appropriate and would address community needs and concerns regarding COVID-19. This included:

• consulting with more than 20 community organisations and groups
• running a survey where 51 community members told us about their communities’ concerns
• running a focus group with community members to test our draft resources for relevance and usefulness.

We developed our information sessions and factsheets to address what we heard from community, together with information from Victoria’s Department of Health and Australia’s Department of Health.

For more information, go to: https://cfre.org.au/lgbtiq-covid/

Get in touch for more support

Drummond Street Services is here for you. You can get in touch either at enquiries@ds.org.au or call 03 9663 6733.

If you have any questions about this project, you can email cfre@ds.org.au.