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MultiLink Community Services is a multi-disciplinary community organisation providing Settlement (SETS), Youth (ReconnectNAYS), Aged Care, Disability (NDIS), Employment & Training, Community Engagement & Capacity building and Financial Wellbeing services across South-East Queensland.
Australia’s Humanitarian Program is a core component of our migration program that ensures Australia meets our humanitarian
commitment to resettle refugees. Australia’s world-class settlement services play a crucial role
in supporting humanitarian entrants as they begin their life in Australia.
City of Stirling partners with SecondBite and Coles to collect and distribute food to share with newly arrived migrants and refugees who need it. Community-based volunteers are essential to supporting the success of this program.
Allianz Australia and SSI’s award-winning partnership has been delivering new education and career opportunities for refugees and migrants since 2016. It is a holistic partnership, with co-designed programs across a wide range of activities that also directly engages and connects hundreds of Allianz staff with the settlement journey.
The Talking Around The World program, starting in 2016, offers free weekly conversation classes that focus on discussions and information in line with the National Settlement Outcome Standards (NSOS). Participants can learn and practice language and vocabulary around the 10 NSOS topics in an Australian context.
Football Victoria and Melbourne Polytechnic worked together to provide accessible football/soccer programs for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to support their learning and physical and mental wellbeing.
In 2020 CRSI initiated, led and coordinated the implementation of a pilot ‘Group Mentorship’ program along with a range of collaborating organisations. The program aimed to harness the energies of local community groups to provide self-directed and holistic support for refugee households who arrived in Australia prior to the pandemic drawing on key features of Canada’s successful and long-standing community sponsorship program for refugees.
The Settlement Council of Australia (SCoA) welcomes the opportunity to provide input into this inquiry. SCoA is the peak body representing the vast majority of settlement agencies across Australia providing direct services and support to people from migrant and refugee backgrounds. Our members include organisations large and small, who are committed to the successful settlement of migrants and refugees across the country. Their services range from greeting new arrivals at the airport, through to assisting them to secure housing, learn English, make social connections, access services and find their first job.
Migration has been widely heralded as key to Australia’s social and economic success. The foundation of this success has been the effective settlement of the migrants who have come through the migration program. The capacity and willingness of migrants to work hard to build a
new life in Australia ensures the migration program achieves the social and economic outcomes intended.