Settlement Support Services
The Melaleuca Australia Settlement Support Services program aims to equip and empower humanitarian entrants, other eligible permanent migrants and their communities to meet their settlement needs within their first five years within Australia.
What is the program about?
The Program provides clients with settlement-related information, advice, advocacy and assistance to access mainstream and other relevant services. The key components include:
- Facilitating acquisition of English language skills
- Supporting engagement with education and training; and
- Building employment readiness
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SETTLING IN AUSTRALIA
Our approach to supporting our clients to successfully adjust to Australian life is holistic and concentrates on providing support and education in the following areas:
- Employment
- Education and training
- Housing
- Physical health, mental health and overall wellbeing
- Managing money
- Community participation and networking
- Family functioning and social support
- Justice
- Language Services
What clients can expect
Melaleuca Australia aims to provide support to individuals on a needs basis; or by facilitating workshops whereby clients can contribute their combined wisdom and experience, while drawing upon the content of the workshops which provides context to the Australian society.
Settlement Services Network (SSN)
The role of the SSN is a collaborative network focused on enhancing the settlement and Inclusion outcomes for the target service groups. While members are individual organisations and Government Departments, the Network takes a collective approach to working on Strategic matters that affect the target service group, while enhancing the operational matters that individual organisations and agencies focus on.
Please click here to view the Terms of Reference to see the objectives, membership, operational approaches, key principles and values, and a link to settlement outcomes.