Australia wide
ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents
This is a program to help parents learn new skills and build confidence in raising teenagers. The website has resources translated into a selection of languages other than English.
Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship
This department is responsible for visas, immigration and refugees. The website has translated resources in languages other than English. The department also offers translating and interpreting services and provides access to English lessons.
Australian Institute of Family Studies – CALD family resources
This Australian Government website has resources for people working with CALD familes. It includes links to a range of other useful websites.
Centrelink – We speak your language
Centrelink provides information about its payments and services in a range of languages. The website has multilingual publications and information about the interpreting and translating services. The Centrelink Multilingual Call telephone number is 13 12 02.
Diversity Health Institute
This institute works to improve the health and wellbeing of Australia’s CALD communities. The website has downloadable resources including multilingual information.
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia (FECCA)
FECCA is the national peak body representing Australians from CALD backgrounds. The website has resources and publications on multicultural issues.
Health Insite
This website provides up-to-date and quality-assessed information on a range of health topics. It includes a search facility for health information in languages other than English.
Interfaith Calendar
This is a calendar of religious festivals from around the world including information about festivals and how they are celebrated.
My Language
The My Language website has a range of translated information covering health, law, education, settlement and libraries. There are also links to other websites with information in languages other than English.
National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)
NEDA advocates for the rights and interests of CALD people with disability, their families and carers throughout Australia.
Migrant resource centres are community-based organisations that provide settlement services for migrants and refugees. Try an internet search to find one near you.
Australian Capital Territory
ACT Health – Migrant Health
The ACT Government’s Migrant Health Unit provides an interpreting service between health professionals and people from Bosnian, Cantonese, Croatian, Mandarin, Serbian, Spanish & Vietnamese backgrounds. Phone (02) 6205 3333 during business hours.
Migrant and Refugee Settlement Services of the ACT
This organisation provides settlement and related services for migrants and refugees in the Australian Capital Territory.
New South Wales
NSW Migrant Resource Centres
This is a list of migrant resource centres in New South Wales, compiled by Sydney Multicultural Community Services.
NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service
This service is funded by NSW Health. It helps health workers to communicate with non-English speaking people. The website has health information translated into a large selection of languages other than English.
Northern Territory
Department of the Chief Minister – Multicultural Affairs
The Office of Multicultural Affairs promotes cultural and linguistic diversity in the Northern Territory by sponsoring grants and awards programs and providing information to the community. Its website has a range of religious fact sheets and community profiles relevant to the Northern Territory, as well as links to multicultural organisations.
Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory
This organisation represents people from CALD backgrounds in the Northern Territory. It runs programs and classes in Darwin and provides support to newly arrived migrants and refugees.
Queensland
Queensland Department of Communities – Multicultural Resource Directory
This is a Queensland Government directory that lists more than 1500 organisations with an ethnic community focus in Queensland. These include ethnic media outlets, schools, community groups, consuls and migrant service organisations.
South Australia
Multicultural Communities Council of SA
This is a non-government organisation advocating for CALD communities in South Australia.
Multicultural SA
This government agency develops policy on multicultural and ethnic affairs in South Australia. On its website there is a SA settlement services finder with information on South Australian services for humanitarian migrants to South Australia.
Tasmania
Migrant Resource Centre (Northern Tasmania)
This Migrant Resource Centre offers support to families from CALD backgrounds in northern Tasmania. It runs community education programs on parenting and relationship issues.
Multicultural Council of Tasmania
This organisation advocates for CALD communities in Tasmania.
Victoria
Action on Disability within Ethnic Communities (ADEC)
ADEC is a Victorian organisation that helps people with a disability from CALD backgrounds to have independence and participate in the community.
Victorian Government Health Translations Directory
Health practitioners who work with CALD communities can use this directory to find reliable translated health information.
Victorian Government Justice Translations
This website has information about the Victorian justice system translated into a range of languages. It’s a useful resource for people in community services working with CALD families.
Western Australia
Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Centre
Ishar delivers the ‘Parenting from the Heart’ project in Perth’s northern suburbs, offering workshops, training and activities for CALD families. The program helps parents who are experiencing difficulties that result from migration and settlement.
WA Office of Multicultural Interests
The Office of Multicultural Interests is part of the WA Department of Local Government. It promotes multiculturalism and improves services to Western Australians from diverse cultural, linguistic and religious backgrounds.
