SBS launches multilingual Mind Your Health portal

An estimated two in five Australians aged 16 to 85 will experience a mental health condition during their lifetime – a widespread issue still considered taboo in many communities. 

In response, SBS has launched its Mind Your Health online content portal featuring articles, podcasts and videos in multiple languages, aimed at showing pathways to support improving the mental and physical wellbeing of all Australians. 

It features SBS’s ‘Great Minds‘ meditation and mindfulness podcast, which shares practices such as Filipino Hilot, Japanese forest bathing, Hawaiian Ho’oponopono and is now available in Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi, Mandarin and Punjabi.

This release follows the success of SBS’s multilingual Coronavirus portal launched in March 2020, which has received 11 million unique Australian visits accessing trusted in language information throughout the pandemic, from updates on changing restrictions to the vaccine rollout.

Mind Your Health targets culturally diverse and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences, with a key focus on 10 languages – Arabic, Cantonese, English, Filipino, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish, and Vietnamese – plus bespoke content for specific communities. 

SBS Director of Audio and Language Content, David Hua, said, “There’s such a diversity of traditions, experience and knowledge about health and wellbeing amongst Australia’s multicultural and First Nations communities.”

“SBS’s Mind Your Health portal aims to share these stories in our audience’s preferred languages to show what’s needed and what works to benefit the health and wellbeing of all Australians.”

“This includes combating prejudice and stigma, as well as improving the visibility of pathways to support and assistance.”

Access the Mind Your Health portal here.