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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.

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 building and capacity building to enable people to self-manage, build independence, speak up and advocate for themselves.

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 their safety and well being.

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 barriers that can hinder access to violence-specific services.

The Refugee Child Outreach program works with children and their families to assist them in meeting their needs in their new home.

The WOW women’s group was initially started as a response to the need for women to have a space to be able to come together to meet socially and participate in activities, especially for those recognised as being socially isolated. The purpose of the group is to target newly arrived refugee women and humanitarian entrants with the aim of empowering them and addressing the issue of social isolation, to increase participants’ knowledge, awareness and solutions regarding Mental Health and to increase participants’ practical skills ability and education levels.

DV-alert aims to support frontline settlement workers to effectively recognise, respond and refer when faced with a domestic and family violence case.

Building Connected Communities initiative promotes  migrants and refugees to participate in social and economic activities.

The Diversity Project aims to make the White Ribbon Campaign more inclusive, building on meaningful and respectful collaboration with diverse communities.