FREE Shout Out speaker presentations for WA public schools

Did you know that MYAN WA has received funding from the Department of Home Affairs through their Fostering Integration Grants program to provide two FREE Shout Out speakers from refugee and migrant backgrounds to WA public schools for the next nine months. The Shout Out speakers will be paid for their time through the grant, but there will be no cost to the school booking the presenter. For more infomration, or to book a speaker, click on the link below.

WA Youth Awards open for nominations

YACWA has just launched nominations for the WA Youth Awards! Nominations are open in 10 categories:

• The Minister for Youth's Most Outstanding Youth Worker Award
• The Hope Community Services Positive Achievement Award
• The Mission Australia Cultural Endeavours Award
• The YMCA Organisational Achievement Award - Large
• The Life Without Barriers Organisational Achievement Award - Small
• The ECU Community Leadership Award
• The Commissioner for Children and Young People Participate Award
• The Youth Futures Innovation for a Sustainable Future Award
• The Charmaine Dragun Memorial Award 

Nominees must be aged 12 - 25 on the date of the awards (25 October 2019), except the Most Oustanding Youth Worker Award which has no age limitations. Nominations close 31 August and the awards take place on Friday 25 October.

Opportunities

Stories from the future - Expressions of Interest (EOI)

The Community Arts Network (CAN) are excited to co-host the WA #StoriesFromTheFuture workshops by Diversity Arts Australia to imagine a future where cultural diversity is present at every level in the Arts. Are you a culturally diverse creative or arts worker based in WA? The next intake for free workshops is now open! The workshops invite culturally diverse creatives and arts workers to imagine a timeline towards an equitable culturally diverse arts future in Australia. The workshop flows from the personal to the structural and systemic; including exercises that reflect upon experiences of marginalisation in the arts to group exercises of collectively imagining milestones towards an equitable culturally diverse arts scene in 2050. Applications close Wednesday, 31 July.

Community Arts Network (CAN) online tool

The Communtiy Arts Network (CAN) has a new CaLD platform for artists, arts and culture organisations, service providers, community groups, and local government to connect with the sector and each other. It's a free platform that will also help promote your organisation. It's very simple and quick to join. Organisations just have to complete a 10-minute online survey that asks general information about the organisation and it's involvement with CaLD communities.

UWA Research Project

Are you a former African refugee resettled in Perth, Western Australia? Are you between the ages of 18 and 30? If so, then previous Catalyst Youth Summit organiser, Gisele Haba Ishimwe is keen to hear from you for a UWA research project. If this sounds like something you would like to contribute to, please contact Gisele on 21292317@student.uwa.edu.au

Workshops

FREE workshop for treasurers from CaLD communities

Are you a treasurer for a newly incorporated organisation or are you interested in becoming a treasurer for your culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) community organisation? The Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI) is organising a workshop for CaLD communities to learn about managing their organisation’s finances.

When: Saturday 10 August, 9am to 12pm

Where: Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, 246 Vincent Street, LEEDERVILLE

Registration is essential as places are limited. Expressions of Interest (EOI) are limited to only one (1) representative per organisation and must include:

• full name

• organisation

• position title (if applicable)

• contact number

Please submit your EOI by email to engage@omi.wa.gov.au by Friday 2 August 2019.

Stepping Out - Stepping In Project

Designed to support and inform women from migrant backgrounds in WA, the Stepping Out - Stepping In Project, delivered by Migrants' Professional Bridge Incorporated provides learning opportunities with a focus on employment and community participation to assist with a positive integration experience. Workshops and other forms of interactive learning platforms will be conducted in each of three Local Government Areas, Gosnells, Armadale and Canning, between July and December 2019. All are free and childcare is provided. The next session's details are below and more dates and times are available at the link.

When: Saturday 27th July, 12.30pm to 3.30pm

Where: Lyal Richardson Hall, The Agonis 2232, Albany Hwy, Gosnells

Let's talk culture - Drugs and alcohol misuses in CaLD communities

The Let's Talk Culture seminar presented by Ishar Multicultural Women's Health Service includes a panel-based discussion on drug and alcohol use and misuses in culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) communities.
 

When: Thursday 8 August, 9am to 11am

Where: Department of Health Theatrette, 189 Royal Street, East Perth

Intercultural learning and global competence workshop

This complimentary AFS Education Event is offered to Western Australian educators and educational leaders. This workshop is valuable for teachers and educational leaders who are interested in preparing themselves and their students to thrive in our globalised world. Topics covered include:

• Intercultural communication
• Concepts and dimensions of culture
• Tools for suspending judgement
• Stereotypes, generalisations and cultural adaptation
• Working with students and others from diverse backgrounds, international students, diverse teams, studying or living abroad, working with clients

When: Friday 2 August, 9am to 3pm

Where: Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, WEST PERTH

Research

Youth settlement trends in Australia 2017 - 2018

MYAN Australia has released a data report on youth settlement trends and an infographic snapshot. This report provides a comprehensive overview of national trends in youth settlement in the Humanitarian and broader Migration Program, looking at demographic data, state/territory trends, religion, English language and visa sub-classes. Using the latest data from the Department of Social Services the snapshot provides a national overview on youth arrivals from family, skilled and humanitarian program streams.

Surveys

National Youth Settlement Framework (NYSF) survey

It's now almost three years since MYAN Australia released the National Youth Settlement Framework (NYSF) - Australia's first national framework to support and benchmark good practice in youth settlement. Since its release in 2016, approximately 300 people have attended training across Australia on the NYSF and it is has been utilised across sectors and within government to inform policy and service delivery.  

Three years on and MYAN is updating elements of the NYSF in order to ensure its currency and relevance, with the plan to release this revised version in September 2019. MYAN is updating outdated context, adding a new section on youth work, adding two new good practice capabilities ('Measuring Outcomes' and a 'Rights-Based approach') and redesigning the practice tools. 

This survey has been developed to capture valuable input into how the Framework is being used and its value, and to identify case studies/examples of how the Framework is being used in practice. This will ensure that the NYSF continues to enable services to respond more effectively to the settlement needs of young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.  The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete. Please note that the survey will close 5pm, 5th August, 2019.

Hybrid and alternating identities survey

This survey will contribute to research on the hybrid and alternating identity styles of bicultural Australians. It is the first step into an investigation of the relationship between demographic factors (length of residence and generation status) and contextual factors (perceived cultural distance and experiences with discrimination) and cultural identity styles. To be eligible to participate you must be an Australian citizen or Permanent Resident and consider yourself as BICULTURAL. You must be able to read in English. The survey will take approximately 15 to 30 minutes to complete. Participants can provide their email address at the end of the survey if theywish to be put in the draw to win a $50 gift card.