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Come and join us at our last network forum of 2016!
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It has been an eventful time for MYAN WA and we look forward to a fantastic final forum to finish the year.
During the first half of the forum we will host a service/project speed share session. We tried this for the first time, in September, and feedback was it was a great way to find out more about services and build connections. So if you want to speak about your service or organisation please get in contact. We will have six speakers, all sharing for a maximum of five minutes. The final forum will also give you an opportunity to hear from one of our Shout Out speakers who will share their experience of telling their story at the recent Day of Diversity session at a local high school.
In the second half of the meeting the Youth Educating Peers (YEP) team will conduct a consultation with you around sexual health and blood borne virus issues, as they relate to young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds. The team is developing a training package on this topic and they want to gain your feedback, thoughts and ideas around what this training package should look like, and determine the relevance of this initiative within the youth and settlement sectors.
As always, there will be a delicious morning tea and plenty of time to network.
When: Friday 3 December, 9.30am to 12.30pm
Where: Foyer Oxford, 196 Oxford Street, Leederville
To book a place, click here
Speed share
This is YOUR opportunity to tell the sector about your fantastic program or initiative. We are calling for six individuals or organisations to present to the network for a maximum of five minutes. You can prepare one slide to contribute to the Power Point (though this isn't essential). If you want to share one of your projects, programs or initiatives during this session, please book a place and then contact myanwa@yacwa.org.au or 9227 5440.
Click here to access the notes from the September forum discussion on YACWA's pre-budget submission.
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YACWA's inaugral Pre-Budget Submission
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Please join us to launch YACWA's inaugral Pre-Budget Submission.
This submission provides a series of priority issues, and recommendations to address them for Government to consider as part of next year’s budget. YACWA has compiled feedback through a members' survey, a consultation paper, workshops, individual consultations, and previous work, and is proud to present this submission on behalf of their members, young people, and the youth sector.
Date: Friday 18 November, 3.30pm to 5pm
Location: Foyer Oxford, 196 Oxford Street, Leederville
To book your place click here
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WA Youth Awards 2016
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The WA Youth Awards were established in 1999 to recognise West Australians aged 12 to 25 years for their contributions to the community, as well as outstanding youth groups and organisations that serve and support the State’s young people. This year, the WA Youth Award's gala ceremony will be held on the evening of Friday 25 November.
We are proud to announce that two young people who are part of Shout Out public speaking program are finalists in the awards. Ali and Fatema are finalists for the Positive Achievement Award.
Have you purchased your tickets? To book your tickets for this years award gala ceremony click here
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Civics and citizenship workshop
The Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI) invites you or a representative from your organisation to attend a workshop about civic life in Australia. The workshop provides an opportunity for you and your community to gain knowledge and skills to fully participate as active citizens in Australian society. The workshop focuses on Australia's political system, citizenship rights and responsibilities, and how to get involved in government decision-making processes.
When: Wednesday 23 November, 5.30 to 8.30pm (5pm registration)
Where: Constitutional Centre of WA, 40 Havelock St, West Perth
Places are limited. RSVP to harmony@omi.wa.gov.au.
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Understanding Civics and Citizenship
Are you aged 16-30? Then the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI) wants to hear from you.
The aim of this survey is to ask youth from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds about their awareness of civics and citizenships in Australia, as well as their knowledge and interest in it. This survey seeks to find out if CaLD youth are interested in a program that teaches them about civics and citizenship in Australia and what specific topics or issues youth would like to know about. The findings from this survey will be used to tailor and modify the existing program to focus on CaLD youth.
You can complete the survey here
If you have any questions please contact Sabrina on (08) 6552 1415 or sabrina.loo@omi.wa.gov.au
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Cultural Humility - free workshop
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Richmond Wellbeing and the City of Gosnells proudly presents CULTURAL HUMILITY, a free service provider workshop.
This workshop is for service providers who wish to enhance their engagement strategies with consumers, carers and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds.
When: Thursday 1 December, 9am to 4pm
Where: Civic Centre Function Room, City of Gosnells 2120 Albany Highway, Gosnells
RSVP essential by Wednesday 23 November. To register for your place, please click here.
For more information, please contact José on 9350 8800 or visit the Richmond Wellbeing website
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SBS Film competition 2017
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SBS, along with the Foundation for Young Australians and the Department of Social Services
are inviting young people between the ages of 15-24 to share their unique story of belonging, culture and identity and have it made into a film - and the competition will go live on November 4th. In 2016 the winning films reached over 2.8 million Australians and were an enormous success so now they're looking to finding new stories to share in 2017.
Five winning stories will be selected and the winners will be flown to Melbourne for a 5-day filmmaking intensive where they’ll learn all about storytelling, be mentored by industry experts and get to transform their stories into 1 min films for SBS’ channels. You can see last year’s films here
The Competition runs from Friday 4th Nov to Sunday 20th Nov 2016 and the Filmmaking Week is from Wed 1st - Sunday 5th Feb 2017 in Melbourne.
To enter, young people need to submit a 30 second video telling their unique story of their identity. Entry will be available via the SBS National Youth Week platform.
Click here to enter
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Life in Australia Podcast
The Red Cross has developed a podcast called Connect, Learn, Share: Life in Australia.
This Podcast is for young people from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds as well as newly arrived migrants. It aims to provide more information about settling in to the Australian community. The contributers share exepriences and offer advice to help with settling into a new community and home. The podcast is now being offered in Farsi language.
Click here to find out more information and listen online.
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Interpreter Central – A new app to help refugees
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As an outcome of the #hackforrefugees event earlier this year, the Australian Red Cross are currently supporting a trial of the winning idea, Interpreter Central. This is an online platform that connecting users, including refugees, with interpreters. The platform is described as 'a matchmaking marketplace for refugees and interpreters' designed to address communication issues. Interpreter Central will give case workers, clients and other users the ability to preview interpreters before they are booked, and to list their preferred interpreter.
To try the platform, click here
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Human Library - stories that touch the heart
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"AfriCan - Stories that Touch the Heart" is organised by participants of the African Leadership Initiative (ALI) in collaboration with the Perth Human Library and the City of Stirling.
The Human Library is composed of real people who are the human books and they tell their story to the readers. These Human Books are people who are subjected to stereotyping and prejudices. In this event, the participants of the African Leadership Initiative will be the Human Books and they will explain their experiences as migrants in Australia to the Reader. The Book and Reader have 30 minutes to talk openly to each other. The experience for the Reader is like reading bits and pieces of a biography.
When: 22nd November (3 time slots to choose from)
Where: Osborne Park Community Centre
To find out more or to book your place click here
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Positive Media
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MYAN WA is excited to introduce a postive media section in our monthly newsletters. Young peole are concerned about their negative potrayal in the media, so we intend to share the positive stories, contributions and achievements of young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in WA.
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Trip to spur new ideas
“That was my main motive to want to participate in this because I think that it’s very important that we look to engage with every community.”
Click here to read the story of our very own Sara Shengeb, who will be going to Hong Kong next year for the youth exchange program!
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2016 Human Rights Awards!
A big congratulations to our project support officer Sara Shengeb on becoming a finalists for the young peoples human rights medal.
Click here to find out more about the awards being held by Australian Human Rights Commission in Sydney next month!
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Tackling mental health for young migrants
Headspace Armadale recently held an event to help promote mental health within CaLD communities, the event was extremely succesful with over 125 people attending from different walks of life.
Click here to view the story covered by the ABC!
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WA's top youth
Less than two weeks away from the WA Youth Awards which recognise young West Australians aged 12-25 years for their achievements and contributions to the community.
Click here to see the finalists!
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