| | Webinar: Good Practice when Working with Young People from Migrant and Refugee Backgrounds Hosted by Child Family Community Australia (CFCA), this webinar will explore good practice when working with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. It will use the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network's (MYAN) Youth Settlement Framework (YSF) as the basis for discussion.
The YSF has been developed by the MYAN and is Australia's first national framework for understanding and responding to the needs of young people in the settlement context. It will support a national approach to good practice in youth settlement, with the aim that all young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds receive the support they need to become active participants in Australian society.
Good practice with this group of young people and their families is often complex and dynamic, and the webinar will provide an opportunity to explore this complexity.
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Date: Wednesday 13 May 2015, 1.30pm - 2.30pm AEST. Find your time zone.Presenters: Nadine Liddy (MYAN National Coordinator) and Heather Stewart (CMY South-East Region Coordinator) |
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Nadine Liddy is the National Coordinator of the Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (Australia) and has worked in the youth and multicultural sectors for over 20 years.
She has a background in casework with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds, in the areas of housing, education and training, and torture and trauma. She has worked extensively in advocacy and sector development, including designing and delivering training on good practice with young asylum seekers and those from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Nadine has also worked internationally, including in the areas of refugee and asylum seeker policy. |
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Heather Stewart has been working as the Coordinator in the South East for the Centre for Multicultural Youth for six years.
Heather manages a team of multicultural youth workers who support and advocate for the needs and interests of migrant and refugee young people. She has worked in the youth sector over many years in a variety of positions, including housing, disability, as a youth work educator, as a researcher, and in policy positions. |
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About the Organisations:
The Multicultural Youth Advocacy Network (MYAN)
The MYAN is the national policy and advocacy body on multicultural youth issues. Auspiced by the Centre for Multicultural Youth in Victoria, the MYAN works with young people, government and the non-government sectors to promote the unique needs and issues for young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
Child Family Community Australia (CFCA)
CFCA is an information exchange at the Australian Institute of Family Studies for practitioners, policy makers, service providers and researchers working with children, families and communities.
The Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY)
CMY is a Victorian not-for-profit supporting young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds to build better lives in Australia. Through a combination of specialist support services, training and consultancy, knowledge sharing and advocacy, CMY works to remove the barriers young people face as they make Australia their home.
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