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Working with refugee & migrant young people
Nepean services
Nepean Migrant Access
Phone: (02) 9833 2416
Address: 2-6 Mamre Road, St Marys
Email: nma@pnc.com.au
Description: Co-ordinates the development of services for culturally and linguistically diverse communities in the Nepean region and information, referral and capacity building for migrant communities in the Hawkesbury and Penrith area.
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Blacktown Migrant Resource Centre
Phone: 9621 6633
Address: Level 2, 125 Main St, Blacktown
Email: bmrc@blacktownmrc.org.au
Description: Provides casework, assistance, information and referral to newly arrived refugee and humanitarian entrants and migrants such as the Sudanese, Sierra Leone, Ghanaian, Tamil-speaking, Bosnians and Croatians. Also community capacity building and service planning for Muslim communities in the Blacktown and Penrith LGA.
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State wide Services
Youth Action & Policy Association
Phone: (02) 9319 1100
Address: 146 Devonshire St, Surry Hills 2010
Email: info@yapa.org.au
Web: www.yapa.org.au
Description: YAPA works to improve the access of migrant and refugee young people to mainstream youth services in NSW. YAPA provides training, information and support to services working with young people. The YAPA website contains a directory of services available for refugee young people and a range of useful factsheets.
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Multicultural Youth Issues Network of NSW (MYINN)
Phone: (02) 9319 1100
Address: C/O - YAPA, 146 Devonshire St, Surry Hills 2010
Email: info@yapa.org.au
Web: www.yapa.org.au
Description: MYINN is a statewide network of services working with young people from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds. MYINN meets bi-monthly and undertakes activities such as the coordination of NESB forums and training events, advocacy on NESB youth issues and promotion of best practice strategies for working with NESB young people and their communities.
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Service for the Treatment of Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors - STARTTS
Phone: Auburn - (02) 9646 6666
Carramar - (02) 9794 1900
Web: www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/areaser/startts
Description: Provides services to facilitate the healing process of survivors of torture and refugee trauma, and to assist and resource individuals and organisations who work with them to provide appropriate, effective and culturally sensitive services.
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Translating & Interpreting Service
Phone: 131 450
Web: www.immi.gov.au/tis
Description: The Australian Government, through the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, provides a Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) for people who do not speak English and for English speakers needing to communicate with them.
TIS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and is accessible from anywhere in Australia.
If you are funded by the Department of Community Services, or the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs you can use TIS for free, contact your funding body to register and gain further advice.
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Ethnic Communities Council of NSW
Phone: 02 9319 0288
Address: 221 Cope Street, Waterloo, 2017
Email: admin@eccnsw.org.au
Web: www.eccnsw.org.au
Description: The Ethnic Communities' Council of NSW (ECC) is a non-government peak body representing many organisations and people from the multicultural community in NSW.
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NSW Refugee Health Service
Phone: (02) 8778 0770
Address: Suite 5, Level 2 157-161 George St Liverpool, 2170
Email: refugeehealth@swsahs.nsw.gov.au
Web: www.swsahs.nsw.gov.au/areaser/refugeehs/main.asp
Description: The Service aims to promote the health of people from a refugee background living in NSW by assisting refugees, and the health professionals who work with them.