Specialist Services for Migrants and Refugees

• Health and Social Services

• Migrant Organisations

Health and Social Services

Transcultural Mental Health Centre
Transcultural Mental Health Line 1800 648 911
If you require information or support for a mental health concern, either for yourself or someone you care for, call the Transcultural Mental Health Line on 1800 648 911.
The line operates for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities in NSW from Monday to Friday between 9:00 am and 4:30 pm.
At other times please call the NSW Mental Health Line on 1800 011 511.

Clinical Consultation and Assessment Service 9912 3851
Public mental health services can call our Clinical Consultation and Assessment Service on (02) 9912 3851, Monday to Friday between 8:30 am - 5:00 pm.

• Embrace Multicultural Mental Health
  Embrace Multicultural Mental Health (the Embrace Project) is run by Mental Health Australia and provides a national focus on mental health and suicide prevention for people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds. 
• Hark Clinic at the Children's Hospital at Westmead
  The HARK Clinic provides health assessments for refugee kids every Friday from the Outpatients Department at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.

• Jesuit Refugee Services

  Jesuit Refugee Services Australia runs a specialist casework service for people seeking asylum, refugees, and migrants in vulnerable situations.

• Mental Health Community Living Supports for Refugees
  Mental Health Community Living Supports for Refugees (MH-CLSR) is a community based program located in seven Local Health Districts (LHDs) that provides support for refugees and asylum seekers with mental health issues to live and participate in the community in the way that they want to. This page includes contacts for lcoal Community Living Support providers. 

• Multicultural Disability Advocacy Associaton
  The Multicultural Disability Advocacy Association of NSW (MDAA) is the peak body for all people in NSW with disability and their families and carers, with a particular focus on those from a culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) / non English Speaking (NES) background with disability.
• Multicultural Youth Affairs Network NSW
  MYAN to provide support and expertise to ensure young people from multicultural communities are able to build the skills, knowledge and networks they need to be active participants in Australian society.

• NSW Health, Local Health District Multicultural Contacts
  This page provides contact details for multicultural health services located within local health districts.  

• NSW Multicultural Health Services Directory
  Multicultural Health Communication Service, 2016
  This Directory provides contact details for a range of health services for culturally and linguistically diverse people across NSW.

• NSW Refugee Health Service
  The NSW Refugee Health Service (RHS) aims to protect and promote the health of refugees and people of refugee-like backgrounds living in NSW.  RHS currently runs weekly General Practice clinics as well as a Refugee Health Nurse Program which provide comprehensive health assessment and ongoing care for recently arrived refugees free of charge.

• NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS)
  STARTTS provides treatment and rehabilitation to survivors of torture and trauma. STARTTS services include culturally appropriate counselling and therapy and health assessment and intervention services to newly arrived refugees and people from refugee like backgrounds.

• Refugee Council of Australia - Services in NSW
  A searchable database of organisations providing services for refugees in NSW.

• Settlement Services International
  Settlement Services International is a community-based not-for-profit organisation providing a range of services in the areas of refugee settlement, migrant support services, asylum seeker assistance, housing, multicultural foster care, disability support, employment services and youth support in NSW.

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Migrant Organisations

• Ethnic Communities Council of NSW (ECC)
  The ECC is the peak body for all culturally and linguistically diverse communities in New South Wales. Its main activities are advocacy, education, and community development.

• Federation of Ethnic Communities' Council of Australia (FECCA)
  FECCA is the peak, national body representing Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. FECCA's role is to advocate and promote issues on behalf of its constituency to government, business and the broader community.

• Multicultural NSW
  Multicultural NSW is a state government organisation that aims to build and maintain a cohesive and harmonious multicultural society that enriches the lives of all the people of NSW. The Multicultural NSW website includes a Settlement Portal which provides provides information about settlement to help all migrants living in NSW.

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