The Humanitarian Settlement Program provides 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:
SSI is partnered with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) to support people aged 7 and over to access the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and other mainstream community services. Learn more.
Employment is integral for newly arrived refugees, migrants, asylum seekers and for other vulnerable people in our community. Learn more
Access Community Services became a subsidiary of SSI in December 2018. Working as one organisation, we can strengthen our position to support service growth in QLD and NSW. Learn more
In March 2018, Saira* crossed the globe alone, travelling from her home in Sierra Leone to Australia, to escape her traditional marriage and build the foundations of a new life for herself, and one day her children.
Read more: How Saira found a second family while searching for employment
The pandemic has changed how communities come together, and 2020 presented a challenge that required Settlement Services International (SSI) and Refugee Week partners to readapt usual modes of engagement for events and celebrations.
The viral video of an NSW Police officer using physical violence in response to a swearing teenager has rightly caused outrage at a time of heightened racial tensions across the world.
Read more: From the CEO: Words aren't just words when they excuse violence
When Abdallah Al Tibi and his family had packed their belongings in 2012 to seek temporary refuge from Syria in bordering Jordan, they did not anticipate that they’d never return, and packed for only two weeks.
Read more: High-achieving refugee becomes university student peer researcher
Iraqi refugee and PhD student of astronomy Rami Alsaberi arrived in Australia in December 2016 with his parents, brothers and sister as a family unit of seven from Iraq after spending three years in Jordan.
Read more: Iraqi-born researcher and refugee gets work published in prestigious scientific journal
From the first day I arrived in Australia, it felt like home. Everyone gets homesick sometimes, but if you have goals and dreams, it constantly drives you forward and takes your mind off the past.
