Partnerships and collaborations with other organisations are crucial to SSI’s operations.
SSI is a member organisation with 14 members across the human services sector. The SSI member network works together on advocacy and sector development.
We also lead the NSW Settlement Partnership (NSP), a consortium of 21 entities comprised of member organisations and nine community organisations located around the state. The NSP delivers settlement services in agreed areas of NSW under the Department of Home Affairs’ Settlement Engagement and Transition Support (SETS) program.
The Migrant Resource Centre North, known as MRC, was established as a not for profit community organisation to facilitate the settlement of migrants into North and North-West Tasmania. Since then, MRC has assisted arrivals under Australia’s Refugee and Humanitarian Program, approximately 500 persons per annum. In addition, MRC assists migrants seeking advice for eligible services. MRC has expanded and now offers a range of services statewide. These services include National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and other disability support. Accessible Diversity Services Initiative Limited (ADSI) is a community based, non-profit organisation established to promote the principles of multiculturalism, access and equity and social justice. ADSI will make its services available without discrimination to every member of the public which the organisation aims to assist.is a community based, non-profit organisation established to promote the principles of multiculturalism, access, equity and social justice. The CMRC covers the Hills, Parramatta, Hornsby, Cumberland, Ryde, Hunters Hill and Ku-ring-gai local government areas. Services provided include: CORE run a wide range of services, activities and programs across five services – Children’s Services, Youth Services, Multicultural Communities, Aged & Disability Care and Community Engagement. CORE has a particular focus on culturally and linguistically diverse communities, with a mission to facilitate equitable access to life opportunities experienced by all Australians. These services include information and referral services to help you when you arrive and settle into Australia, intensive support for families with a child or a young person with a disability, casework and support programs for CALD families with children and youth who need support to increase quality of parenting and family capacity and projects and services to address issues of access and equity. The organisation was initially established as the Canterbury Bankstown Migrant Resource Centre in 1986 to assist new migrants and refugees settling in the Canterbury and Bankstown local government areas. With an expansion in the organisation's footprint to include the Inner West, the name was changed in 2008 to Metro Migrant Resource Centre. A broadening of services beyond migrant settlement saw a further name change to Metro Assist in 2010. Its beneficiaries include all life cycle CALD individuals and their communities: newly arrived migrants and refugees/humanitarian entrants, longer settled people of CALD background, older migrants (especially those over 65), newly developing families with cross-cultural experiences, single parent families, youth, vulnerable families with young children, those in socially and geographically isolated situations. Its area of operation includes Newcastle, the Hunter Region, the Central Coast, and the Northern Tablelands of NSW. Across this area a diverse group of migrants and refugees have settled, some widely dispersed in regional towns and properties and others concentrated in the suburbs of Newcastle and in parts of the Central Coast of NSW. Sydney MCS employs over 50 staff members, covering 8 program areas in over 16 languages for Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, Sydney City and the Inner West region. SydWest assists people who are vulnerable and most in need, such as youth and children, seniors, people with disabilities and humanitarian entrants, with our diverse programs ranging from aged care and disability services to case management for new arrivals, information sessions and support groups. Western Sydney MRC supports clients by providing casework and group activities to help them overcome the challenges and difficulties they face when they arrive in the community.Member List
Yumba-Meta provides long-term, medium-term and short-term secure and affordable accommodation and services to disadvantaged people, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Not just providing social housing assistance to those with the greatest needs, YML provides a safe place for people to take control of their own lives and break the cycle of homelessness for good.
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) is a non-profit community organisation which has been providing support services to the Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities since 1981. In particularly focus on recent arrivals, families, older people, women, youth, people with disabilities and their carers living in the Hurstville, Kogarah, Rockdale and Sutherland Shire Local Government Areas. ADS provides the following services:
Community Migrant Resource Centre (CMRC) is a not-for-profit, charitable organisation established in 1996. It focuses on providing specialised support services to newly arrived migrants, refugees and humanitarian entrants.
CORE Community Services (previously known as Cabramatta Community Centre) is a non-profit organisation, which has been operating in the South West Sydney region for more than 37 years.
Illawarra Multicultural Services employs specialised staff to provide a range of programs and projects to meet the needs of new arrivals and culturally and linguistically diverse individuals, families and communities who are socially and/or financially disadvantaged with low English language proficiency.
Metro Assist (formerly Metro Migrant Resource Centre) provides a range of community services including migrant settlement, family support and early intervention, emergency relief, tenancy services and community development. Metro Assist service area includes Ashfield, Bankstown, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury, Marrickville and Strathfield Local Government Areas.
Mosaic Multicultural Connections is an entirely independent not-for-profit entity delivering a broad range of settlement services.
Sydney Multicultural Community Services (or Sydney MCS) is a community-based not for profit organisation, specialising in service provision for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities. We run programs in Aged Care, Settlement and the broader community through Australian Government funded initiatives such as Multicultural Home Care Packages and the 22 member consortium NSW Settlement Partnership (NSP).
SydWest Multicultural Services is a leading community organisation helping and empowering people of all cultures in Greater Western Sydney.
Western Sydney MRC works with newly arrived migrants, refugees, and diverse communities by building their capacity to take part in local life in the Liverpool Local Government Area.