At MYAN NSW, our Culture Lab project engaged and connected young people from multicultural communities across Sydney, to discuss what safe and inclusive community discourse looked like. Over 25 young people shared and discussed how they honoured their Australian and other cultural or faith identities, to promote social cohesion and develop respect and accountability. This resource is a result of their shared thinking and research on best practice. This Toolkit is designed to support people who are considering speaking about a complex or sensitive topic on behalf of their cultural or faith community. The information in this toolkit can help you plan and prepare for a public engagement or roundtable event, or simply help you share safely and respectfully with friends, coworkers and family. The Toolkit offers guidance on making an informed decision about whether to share as well as advice, tips and activities to help you to prepare, share, reflect and debrief effectively. The toolkit also includes a “Safe Advocacy Checklist” to support you to ask for what you need when you are invited to share at an event or formal discussion.
The KAIROS Program is a media and participation project for young women and girls from cultural communities, delivered by MYAN NSW as part of the COMPACT Alliance. The program invests in young women and girls as responders to global violence, equipping them to prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from community violence through capacity building, critical thinking, and the development of a strong and resilient network. Through a series of workshops, youth events, and intercultural conversations, young people build resilience to harmful public discourse around race, culture, and identity. The word KAIROS means ‘the right time’ in Greek. MYAN NSW believes now is the right time to respond to the needs of these individuals. Through a series of workshops, youth events, and intercultural conversations, young people built their resilience to harmful public discourse around race, culture, and identity. MYAN NSW engaged For-Purpose Evaluations to evaluate the MYAN NSW KAIROS Program. The KAIROS Program was delivered in Sydney between November 2022 and April 2024. Data was gathered and analysed for this evaluation between May 2023 and May 2024.
MYAN NSW delivered a skills-building and information program titled, ‘Youth Advisor Hub’, equipping newly arrived young people with skills and training in public speaking, social policy, and leadership skills to represent youth affairs to decision-makers. The Youth Advisor Hub co-delivered a policy brief titled, ‘Addressing the Rental Crisis on Young People Living in NSW’, alongside MYAN NSW at the MYAN NSW Annual Youth Forum, where the findings of the report where present to young people and service providers from the Department of Home Affairs, TAFE NSW, NSW Police, Multicultural NSW, NSW Health, and the Department of Communities and Justice.
UNSW and MYAN NSW embarked on a pilot project to meet the professional development needs of university teaching and support staff, as well as the students involved in the ASPIRE outreach program, who come into contact with culturally and linguistically diverse, migrant and refugee (CALDMR) students.
MYAN NSW develops annual statewide snapshots on youth arrivals aged 12-24 from family, skilled and humanitarian program streams, using the latest data from the Department of Home Affairs. The snapshot includes information on a range of demographic data, including age, gender, religion, language and settlement location.
MYAN NSW regularly engages with young people from refugee and migrant communities and relevant sectors to hear directly about their perspectives and experiences.
MYAN NSW provide expertise on public policy issues formally through submissions to committees, inquiries and advisory groups.
The National Youth Settlement Framework (NYSF) 2020 edition remains Australia’s first and only evidence-based national guide to benchmark good practice with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds – and is the only one of its kind globally.
With practical tools, including Self-Assessment Guides, and a range of supplementary resources the NYSF is designed to equip policymakers and service providers with the skills and knowledge to best support young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds to thrive in Australia.
The Multicultural Youth Australia Census Status Report 2017/2018 is the first ever status report and national study of young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Here are a range of resources, practice guides and reports relating to working with young people from refugee and migrant communities.