For the second year running, Settlement Services International (SSI) is partnering with Australian Women in Music Awards (AWMA) to turn the spotlight on culturally diverse female artists and music practitioners through the SSI Diversity in Music Award.
Read more: Groundbreaking partnership sparks opportunity for diverse female artists and musicians
Sydney’s ongoing housing affordability crisis and high living costs have hit low-income groups particularly hard, leading an innovative social enterprise to open up in an inner Sydney suburb with high homelessness rates.
Not-for-profit Settlement Services International (SSI) has partnered with Mission Australia to open The Staples Bag Camperdown – inner Sydney’s first low-cost grocer that provides high-quality nutritious food staples, while also saving an average of two tonnes of food from landfill every week.
Read more: Inner Sydney’s first low-cost grocer lightens the load for people doing it tough
People born in a non-English speaking country have similar rates of disability as other Australians but are about half as likely to receive formal assistance.
Settlement Services International (SSI) has drawn on its expertise in working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to address the need for culturally competent entry points to the disability service system to help marginalised groups gain access.
Read more: Multilingual hub breaks down language barriers for people with disability
A new family resource for children and young people in foster care from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds will be launched by Settlement Services International (SSI) in Bankstown, Sydney, today.
My Life and Me, a life story book with a cultural focus, was developed by SSI to address the loss of identity and belonging experienced by CALD children in care.
Read more: New book helps culturally diverse children in foster care maintain their identity
When US President Donald Trump recently raised the idea of sending back a handful of congresswomen to the “broken and crime infested places from which they came”, he echoed a sentiment we hear far too frequently right here in Australia.
Read more: Where would Australia be if we listened to Trump on refugees?
High levels of unemployed welfare recipients losing access to their payments is indicative of a complex and inadequate system, not a proliferation of ‘welfare cheats’, according to community organisation and social business Settlement Services International (SSI).
Settlement Services International today congratulated the Australian Senate for rejecting Pauline Hanson’s move to hold a plebiscite on Australia's immigration levels.
Read more: SSI congratulates Senate on resoundingly defeating move for immigration plebiscite
Before the 'Tell Your Story' program, there was no intervention to specifically reduce mental health stigma in refugees.
A world-first intervention for refugee men who suffer from PTSD has shown promise in a trial, encouraging them to get help.
Read more: Online program helps traumatised refugees overcome mental health stigma
An innovative new approach to disability services education is using lived experience to help providers better understand the challenges facing people with disability from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Read more: Lived experience shapes the future for disability service providers
A forum in North Wollongong on June 20 will highlight the benefits for employers of being disability confident and ways to capitalise on untapped talent and skills in the local community.
Read more: Inclusive Illawarra paves the way for disability employment
Bassam Maaliki, a 14-year-old student at Homebush Bay High School and founder of the social change campaign #uBelong, was announced winner of the Youth Medal at the NSW Premier’s Harmony Dinner on 21 March 2018.
