Breadcrumbs
Project initiatives in refugee education
The Changing Cultures Project
(2000-2003)
The Changing Cultures Project brought together eight partners from the education, health and settlement sectors to address the education needs of refugee and newly arrived young people. These are young people, aged from fifteen to their mid-twenties, who have either experienced significant disruption to their education or who have no education at all prior to their arrival. The Changing Cultures Project focused on enhancing the mental health of refugee young people through appropriate education and training programs.
The Good Starts Study for Refugee Youth
(2004-2008)
This is a longitudinal study that combines the methods of ethnography and social epidemiology to examine the contexts and processes that promote health and wellbeing among newly arrived young refugees. The overall aim of the Good Starts Study for Refugee Youth is two-fold: a) to identify the key factors (or social determinants) that assist young people in making a healthy start in their new country and b) to describe in depth, the factors, contexts, settings and social processes that support, enhance and facilitate health and wellbeing among this dislocated and traumatised population of youth.
Holroyd High School
Ms Dorothy Hoddinott, public high school principal at Holroyd High since 1996, created a range of special programs and services for immigrant and refugee students. She was conferred an Honorary Fellow of the University of Sydney on 28 April 2006.
Student Wellbeing and Cultural Diversity Project
(2003)
Northern Region Preston Girls' Secondary College collaborated with several agencies to promote student wellbeing in the context of the school's cultural diversity. The project focused on building relationships and connections between young people and their school. The program encouraged students to embrace the cultural and linguistic diversity in the school and promoted mental health and resilience.