Arts & Culture Program
SSI's self-funded Arts and Culture program encourages cultural engagement and nurtures artists and cultural practitioners from refugee and migrant backgrounds.
Refugee Employment Support Program (RESP)
Supports refugees to find suitable and skilled employment opportunities.
Multicultural Foster Care
Providing a safe, nurturing and caring environment & connecting children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with foster carers who can help them maintain their cultural identity and sense of belonging.
Ignite® Small Business Start-Ups
Supports small business creation and expansion for people from a refugee or migrant background, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and others.
Status Resolution Support Services (SRSS)
The asylum seeker assistance scheme offers financial support, accommodation, healthcare and education to people living in Australia on temporary visas.
Diversity Training
SSI’s Diversity Training transforms how people respond to diversity in ways that are thought-provoking, inspire curiosity, and build confidence.
New documentary highlights contribution of Ignite success story, First Nations leader Rose Lovelock
Damon Gameau’s latest documentary, Regenerating Australia, has captured the perceptive First Nations voice of Anaiwan academic and entrepreneur Rose Lovelock, an alumnus of Settlement Services International’s (SSI) Ignite Small Business Start-ups initiative.
SSI welcomes Budget allocation of additional places for Afghan refugees
Settlement Services International (SSI) has joined humanitarian advocates, including the Refugee Council of Australia (RCOA) and the Settlement Council of Australia, in welcoming the Federal Government’s 2022-23 Budget announcement of an additional 16,500 places over four years for Afghans fleeing their war-torn country.
From the CEO: Foster inclusiveness and a sense of belonging this Harmony Week
Harmony Week, March 21 to March 27, marks our country’s rich multicultural identity.
In conversation: SSI New Beginnings Ambassador Shyamla Eswaran talks diversity at New Beginnings Festival.
This annual festival brings thousands of Sydneysiders together to enjoy the creative, culinary and artistic talents of people from refugee, migrant and First Nations backgrounds.
Matriarch of Australian rap joins global talent line-up at New Beginnings Festival
BARKAA, a Malyangapa, Barkindji woman from Western New South Wales to perform as part of leading arts and culture festival’s first show coming out of COVID-19
Australian NGO casts light on gender inequality at UN Women conference
As part of its commitment to advancing women and girls’ empowerment at local, national and international levels, Settlement Services International (SSI) is to host a virtual panel to a global network, “Women’s Economic Empowerment Across Borders – A new age of entrepreneurship”.