In late 2023 WHGNE developed the Amplifying Women’s Voices video project, which resulted in two video series, each focusing on women’s diverse lived experience in northeast Victoria and the Goulburn Valley. The first three videos – the WOMHEn series – present the real-life perspectives of women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds living and working in the region, featuring multilingual educators from the WOMHEn project (Workforce of Multilingual Health Educators). The second series – Long Story Short – consists of five videos featuring women’s stories of navigating their sexual and reproductive health in a regional context. To protect the anonymity of those women who shared their stories through the Long Story Short project, these videos are informed by the collective experiences of real women so generously shared with WHGNE and our project partners WHLM, read by actors.
To increase the health and wellbeing of women in our region it is crucial to amplify diverse voices from across communities. Creating opportunities to share lived and living experience perspectives from the people impacted by systemic and social factors helps us contextualise policies, practices and structures that have a major impact on people’s lives, and to gain insight into what works well currently, and what ‘better’ could look like for women in our region into the future.
This video series has been made to platform the voices of women in our community and to showcase the ways in which they are making a difference through sharing their wisdom, skills and lived experience to inform the knowledge-base of women and communities across our region. The common thread tying the two series together – alongside lived experience – is the value of community-based health promotion.
Watch the full Long Story Short video series featuring stories about perimenopause, childbirth, sexual health, endometriosis and abortion access.
Watch the full WOMHEn video series here, featuring multilingual health educators and women from communities in Wodonga and Shepparton talk about their experiences accessing healthcare and information.
