Media Room
The Media Room houses all our News, Media Releases, Stories, Videos, Annual Reports and other publications. You can use the filter buttons here, or browse all the entries:
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SydWest Multicultural Services welcomes discussion on benefits of multiculturalism
Wednesday, 16 December 2020 10:32SydWest Multicultural Services has welcomed the recent release of Labor’s Multicultural Statement. The organisation is a leader on cultural diversity issues in NSW, and assists thousands of newly arrived refugees, humanitarian entrants and people from non-English speaking backgrounds become valued members of Australian society.
New Chair at SydWest Announced!
Tuesday, 08 December 2020 12:39SydWest Multicultural Services is pleased to announce its new Board of Directors, appointed at the recent Annual General Meeting held 27th November 2020.
The new Board will be led by first-time Chair, Tamara Giles, an Aboriginal woman who is focused on improving relationships between the culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and Indigenous communities of Western Sydney. She is particularly keen to see more education of the CALD community about the history of Australia and the impacts it has had on Indigenous people.
Help for Women caught in Australia
Tuesday, 24 November 2020 09:43SydWest Multicultural Services is pleased to announce their new service to help women escaping domestic violence: the Specialist Migrant Domestic Violence Project.
SydWest Photographic Exhibition video now live online!
Capturing the Moment is a new photographic exhibition from SydWest Multicultural Services and features some of our newly arrived refugees and migrant clients from our English Conversation classes.
SydWest launches new Neighbourhood Buddies Program for Blacktown and Mt Druitt
Tuesday, 08 September 2020 15:12SydWest Multicultural Services and Mt Druitt Ethnic Communities Agency (MECA) are pleased to announce a new initiative, the Neighbourhood Buddies, that will connect new settlers and their families with a resident local to Blacktown or Mt Druitt. The process will assist in building networks, knowledge, navigation skills, social and cultural participation that will improve social cohesion and a sense of belonging.
Glenwood Seniors Social Support Group celebrates 10 years together!
SydWest Multicultural Services is pleased to share that the Glenwood Seniors Social Support Group has been coming together for ten years and recently celebrated their anniversary.
SydWest delivering National Community Connector Program (NCCP) across Western Sydney
Monday, 31 August 2020 13:11SydWest Multicultural Services is pleased to announce that they have been successfully sub-contracted to deliver the new National Community Connector Program (NCCP), an initiative of the NDIS through National Ethnic Disabilities Alliance (NEDA).
SydWest is a COVID Safe Workplace
SydWest Multicultural Services is a COVID Safe workplace.
With COVID-19 pandemic announced in early March 2020, the Leadership Team at SydWest Multicultural Services mobilised to ensure we were doing everything we could to look after our people – staff and the community.