| Research / Report Title | Description | URL |
|---|---|---|
| Culturally-Competent Youth Work: Good Practice Guide | Centre for Multicultural Youth | This Good Practice Guide is designed to provide organisations and workers with some strategies to enhance the accessibility and responsiveness of their service when working with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. | Read Report |
| “School’s In for Refugees” Tool | Foundation House | Based on our Integrated Trauma Recovery Service Model, School’s In for Refugees was produced in consultation with teachers and professionals in the community, health, family services and education sectors. It includes various resources to assist school-wide planning and change processes, such as: -Background information concerning the refugee experience and the impact of trauma on learning, development and wellbeing -Case studies -Professional learning activities -Templates and tools | Read Report |
| “School’s In for Refugees” Tool | Integrated Trauma Recovery Service Model | Based on our Integrated Trauma Recovery Service Model, School’s In for Refugees was produced in consultation with teachers and professionals in the community, health, family services and education sectors. It includes various resources to assist school-wide planning and change processes, such as: -Background information concerning the refugee experience and the impact of trauma on learning, development and wellbeing -Case studies -Professional learning activities -Templates and tools | Read Report |
| Schools and Families in Partnership: A desktop guide to engaging families from refugee backgrounds in their children’s learning | Victorian Refugee Health Network | Schools and families in partnership: a desktop guide to engaging families from refugee backgrounds in their children’s learning. This resource has been produced in consultation with parents from refugee backgrounds, school principals, teachers and multicultural education aides from around Victoria, to support schools partnering with families from refugee backgrounds to enhance access to their children’s learning. | Read Report |
| Engage Respectfully with Young People from Refugee Backgrounds | AMES Australia | This material has been designed to facilitate the development of the competencies required for people working, or intending to work, with young people from refugee backgrounds. It aims to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to address the specific needs of this client group and to develop constructive attitudes. The unit is based on the idea that working with young people from refugee backgrounds requires knowledge, skills and attitudes additional to, and distinct from, those required to work with other young people or other newly arrived groups. This resource is available free of charge to Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) and agencies wanting to enhance the skills of their staff. | Read Report |
| Forced Marriage: Good Practice Guide | Centre of Multicultural Youth | Forced marriage is increasingly being identified as an issue affecting young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in the Australian community. Any person who works with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, in particular, workers in agencies such as schools, youth programs, health care and community services, should know how to identify a young person at risk and how to ensure they get the specialised support services they need. This Good Practice Guide provides an introduction to the issue of forced marriage and essential information to assist frontline workers to respond effectively to a young person at risk. | Read Report |
| INCLUSIVE ORGANISATIONS | A guide to good practice strategies for engaging young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in services and programs | Inclusive Organisations provides a framework that organisations can utilise to improve their engagement with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds and enhance good practice across their services and programs. | Read Report |
| National Youth Settlement Framework | MYAN | 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. | Read Report |
| Building Respectful Relationships – stepping out against gender-based violence | This package of resources includes a set of teaching and learning activities for delivery to students in Years 8 , 9 and 10. It aims to educate young people about the impact of gender-based violence and focuses on the key themes of gender, respect, violence and power. | Read Report |
| Knowledge Hub | CMY | CMY publish guides which are useful to practitioners, including: How To Make Your Organisation More Inclusive, Forced Marriage in Australia, Culturally Competent Intake and Assessment, Young People and Mental Health and the Culturally Competent Youth Work Good Practice Guide. | Read Report |
| RESOURCES & PUBLICATIONS | MYAN produces a range of publications as part of its policy and sector development work. These include policy papers, sector resources, event reports, case studies and journal articles. | Read Report |