With NSW Health and Laundry Lane Productions
Pacific Voices Bringing Health Messages to Life
A series of culturally relevant animated sexual health resources, made with Pacific communities rather than just for them, in six languages.
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PALM Scheme Health Series
Choose your language. Each one plays the full series, and nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
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English
Four videos
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Samoan
Four videos
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Tongan
Four videos
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Fijian
Four videos
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Kiribati
Four videos
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Pidjin
Four videos
About the project
Made with Pacific communities, not just for them
The NSW Council for Pacific Communities (NSW CPC) is proud to have collaborated with NSW Health, Laundry Lane Productions and PALM workers from across our Pacific communities to help create a series of culturally relevant animated sexual health resources.
A key part of this project was ensuring that Pacific people were not simply the audience for these resources. They were actively involved in creating them.
Working alongside NSW Health and Laundry Lane Productions, PALM workers generously contributed their time, voices and lived experiences to bring the animated characters to life. Community members participated in the recording of voice-overs, helping ensure the language, tone and delivery of the videos felt genuine, relatable and accessible to the people they were designed to support.
The project has produced four animated sexual health videos, which are being made available in English, Kiribati, Fijian, Samoan, Tongan and Pidjin.
For NSW CPC, this is an important example of what genuine co-design can look like: bringing government, community organisations, creative professionals and Pacific people together to develop resources that reflect the communities they are intended to serve.
We particularly acknowledge the PALM workers who stepped forward to lend their voices to the animations. Their involvement helped transform important health information into something that speaks directly to Pacific communities in familiar languages and voices.
The collaboration also builds on NSW CPC’s ongoing work with NSW Health to strengthen access to culturally appropriate health information, services and support for Pacific communities and PALM workers across NSW.
We extend our sincere thanks to NSW Health for supporting and investing in this important work, to Laundry Lane Productions for bringing the animations and stories to life, and especially to the PALM workers and community members whose voices helped make these resources truly Pasifika.
This project demonstrates the importance of creating health resources for Pacific communities, with Pacific communities.
Our voices. Our languages. Our communities. Our health.
The PALM Scheme Health Series was made by NSW Health with Laundry Lane Productions and PALM workers from Pacific communities across New South Wales.
