Program
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You can download available conference presentations by clicking on the relevant presentation below:
Keynote speaker
- Presentation: Karen Zwi, Longitudinal study of refugee children
- Paper: Karen Zwi, Protective factors for social-emotional well-being
Panel presentations
Day 1: Perspectives on family resettlement
- Dr Mary Asic-Kobe, ACCESS Community Services
- Dr Rebecca Jenkinson, Australian Institute of Family Studies
Day 2: A focus on community responses
- Julia Harpham, The Mingoola regional initiative
- Emmanuel Musoni, Rural and regional secondary resettlement
- Professor Andrew Markus, Monash University
Concurrent presentations
Addressing domestic and family violence (DFV)
- RESPECT: Fostering respectful relationships though music and performance
- Working holistically to reduce the impact of DFV
- The 99 steps journey: Logan response to DFV in CALD communities
- Responding to DFV in asylum seeker communities: A service delivery perspective
Promoting engagement in the educational system
- Opening the school gate: Advocating for school & community collaboration
- Creating opportunities and belonging – Migrant youth vision project
- Promoting participation of students from refugee backgrounds in higher education through LEAP Macquarie mentoring program
Housing initiatives
- A different approach to resettlement: Northern Beaches Refugee Initiative
- Innovative models for refugee and asylum seeker housing support
- Habitat for Humanity: NSW – Rural housing for refugees
- Rentstart Bond loan pre-approval initiative
Innovation in mental health
- The Recovery College: Cultivating mindfulness to improve CALD mental health consumers’ & carers’ wellbeing
- Use of EEG in clinical assessment, treatment and evaluation of outcomes in refugee survivors of torture and trauma
Empowering young people
- The national youth settlement framework: A toolkit for family aware practice
- Navigating resettlement: Matching mentoring and creative media design with refugee and migrant youth in Greater Western Sydney
- Revitalise – A refugee youth volunteering pilot
Pathways to economic participation
- Foundations of economic engagement
- IAG & CareerSeekers: Creating opportunities that inspire excellence
- Mending the current employment arrangements for refugees report
- Who benefits from SKILL ME? Measuring successful employment outcomes for skilled migrant families
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- Lost in translation: Embracing the challenges of working with families from a refugee background
- Parents as confident community members
- Barnardos children’s family centres: Strengthening families through integrated service delivery
Transitioning to a disability system
- National approach to supporting people from diverse backgrounds with a disability
- FutureAbility: Multicultural communities getting NDIS ready
- Addressing the information gap, needs and preferences
- National disability insurance scheme: support and services for people with a disability
Child protection and statutory responses
- Working with perpetrators of domestic violence from the Rohingya community
- Responding to early and forced marriage in Australia
- Multicultural foster care: Insights and challenges
- Care and cultural planning: The new multicultural plan
Promoting social inclusion and belonging
- “We are all Sydney” community leadership program: Building individual and organisational capacity in emerging communities
- Beyond the romance: the promise and pitfalls of refugee mentor programs
- Community friends: Connecting refugees and newly arrived migrants to their community
Health and wellbeing
- Needs and assets assessment: New and emerging communities
- NSW Refugee Health Service school nurses program
- Healthy lunchbox toolkit for culturally diverse communities
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