News and Events
The Community Migrant Resource Centre, in partnership with NSP member SydWest Multicultural Services and Western Sydney University, has begun a 2-year therapeutic arts intervention and comparative study, The Parallel Lives of Women.
Manning Valley Neighbourhood Service (MVNS) completed two employment training programs this past July. Both programs were funded through the Fostering Integration Grants.
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) was awarded HWEI Gold Employer and HWEI Service Provider of the Year at the Australian LGBTQ Inclusion Awards!
SSI and the NSP are undertaking a Systems Change exploration, a multi-stage exercise across the partnership.
The Cooking with Kulcha program at Focus Connect provides the opportunity for multicultural young people to teach, cook and share recipes from their own culture.
Auburn Diversity Services Inc (ADSi) has partnered with Tayitu Cultural and Educational Centre (TCEC) to implement the From Cultural Food to Employment project.
Advance Diversity Services joined more than 80,000 people to be part of the fun of the most fabulous queer event leading into Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Community Northern Beaches’ Multicultural Service organised a maths clinic during the summer school holidays for Tibetan students in grades 5, 6 and 7.
Newly arrived migrant and refugee fashion designers wowed the public in November with a fashion parade showcasing a unique collection of elegant and traditional garments.
Twenty young people from high schools across Sutherland and St George last year attended youth leadership workshops to prepare for two Refugee Schools Forums, at Hurstville and Cronulla, as part of the CommUNITY: Awareness, Advocacy, Action project of Gymea Community Aid & Information Service.
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) will use $30,000 funding awarded by Transport NSW to roll out a driver education program for recently arrived refugees and migrants in the St George area.
A waste-wise initiative offered by Advance Diversity Services (ADS) in 2020 will help new arrivals in the Barton electorate match their good intentions and commitment with responsible recycling practices.
SydWest Multicultural Services' Annual General Meeting on November 29 was accompanied by the launch of its Annual Report, a photography exhibition and a domestic violence resource.
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) has been awarded $20,000 funding for a Gender and Sexual Diversity project, which aims to ensure newly arrived migrants and refugees who identify as LGBTIQA+ receive inclusive settlement support.
In September Macarthur Diversity Services Initiative's SETS / Family settlement worker organised a TAFE course information session for the MDSI Women Social group.
In 2019, Mount Druitt Ethnic Communities Agency (MECA) in partnership with FoodFaith built an organic garden and started horticultural classes and workshops for refugees and migrants.
Nineteen students from Advance Diversity Services’ (ADS) English Classes for Integration and Employment visited New South Wales’ Parliament House on September 24.
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) became a member of the Welcome Here Project in September.