Multicultural Youth SA’s ‘Mum and Bubs’ Program includes direct service provision and community capacity initiatives in metropolitan Adelaide. The program includes Circle of Security Training – an early intervention parenting program designed to enhance attachment...
Melaleuca Refugee Centre: Family Harmony
Melaleuca Refugee Centre’s Family Harmony Program provides a series of workshops and activities that support families as they adjust to their new community and life in Australia. The workshops are complemented by more informal group activities, and one on one...
Chinese Australian Services Society: Senior Activity Groups
Chinese Australian Services Society (CASS) supports elderly people in Sydney by navigating language barriers and building social networks through their Senior Activity Groups. During COVID-19, CASS has continued this important work to provide social support for newly...
Centacare Far North Queensland: Our Place
Centacare FNQ - Our Place
Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Services: Neighbourhood Mothers Program
During the COVID-19 pandemic a, Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Services remained connected with women and families in Perth in Western Australia by developing a “Posted Home Packs” and through regular phone check-ins. Ishar - Neighbourhood Mothers...
Migrant Resource Centre Tasmania – Phoenix Centre: Diverse Ability
Diverse Ability is a strengths-based, individual capacity building program for people with psychosocial or physical disabilities from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) background. Activities focus on the delivery of individual mentoring support, skills...
Access Community Services: 99 Steps
The ‘99 Steps’ program, run by Access Community Services, based in Logan in Queensland, provides specialist, culturally appropriate responses to women and children from non-English speaking backgrounds experiencing domestic and family violence in order to enhance...
Statistics Canada: The social and economic concerns of immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic (May 2020)
A recent Statistics Canada study reveals that immigrants in Canada have higher levels of concern about their own health than Canadian-born individuals; that immigrants are more likely to be concerned about civil disorder, social ties and the ability to...
Locked Down and Locked Out? The impact of COVID-19 on employment for young people (CMY)
Locked Down and Locked Out Report June 2020
Foundations for Belonging: A snapshot of newly arrived refugees, Settlement Services International
view the report here: https://www.ssi.org.au/images/Signature_Foundations_Report_withlink.pdf
Multicultural and settlement services supporting women experiencing violence
There is increasing interest in reaching migrant and refugee women experiencing family violence through settlement and multicultural services. This is because evidence suggests that women who have resettled in Australia face a range of particular and additional...
Living and working in regional South Australia: a case study of three towns
A new report which documents research into the experiences of migrants settling in the regional towns of Naracoorte, Murray Bridge and Bordertown has been launched by the Australian Migrant Resource Centre (AMRC). The report was a collaboration between the AMRC and...