Humanitarian Settlement Program provide essential early support and information to refugees and humanitarian entrants. Learn more:
IgniteAbility Small Business Start-ups is a pilot program established to facilitate business creation for people with disability. Learn More:
The Multilingual Disability Hub is a national multilingual hotline and website that provides relevant and easily accessible information about disability and NDIS in your language. Visit us
Employment is integral for newly arrived refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and for other vulnerable people in our community. Learn more:
The SSI Community Innovation Fund enriches community members, leaders & groups to build a stronger, more vibrant and resilient life together in south-west Sydney. Learn more:
In 2017, a Community Hub was opened at Villawood East Public school, an area with a high migrant, low socio-economic population. At the time, many parents were hesitant to engage with their school community, and low English comprehension was identified as a barrier.
Read more: Community Hub gives chance for parents to blossom
With the support of IgniteAbility® Small Business Start-ups, high-achieving entrepreneur and autism advocate Haydn Payne is developing a podcast series for high functioning young adults on the autism spectrum.
Read more: Community advocate develops podcast to raise awareness about life on the autism spectrum
Engagement officer for Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT) Thomas Kuzma is developing his online business — TK Hubworld — with the support of IgniteAbility® Small Business Start-ups.
Read more: Advocate develops online platform to enable a new world for people living with Autism
Fried rice, pastizzi irkotta, hummus, baram tteok, pies and sausage rolls ― it was a multicultural smorgasbord when Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, home to a burgeoning SSI Community Hub, celebrated cultural diversity and inclusion during Harmony Week.
Read more: Food brings community together during Harmony Week
A strong delegation from Settlement Services International (SSI) was among 1,900 people who gathered at Sydney Town Hall on March 14 to urge for real change to housing and energy policies ahead of the NSW and Federal elections.
Read more: SSI joins civil society organisations calling for change to housing and energy policies
