National Youth Settlement Framework – we want to hear from you!   It’s now almost 3 years since MYAN released the National Youth Settlement Framework (NYSF) – Australia’s first national framework to support and benchmark good practice in youth settlement. Since its release in 2016, over 1000 people have participated in NYSF training, webinars and workshops across Australia, ​and we have presented on the […]

On Monday 3rd June, MYAN hosted a national consultation to hear directly from those working with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds about mental health issues affecting young people and how services can best support their mental health and well-being.

MYAN at Metropolis 2018 MYAN was excited to present a workshop at the International Metropolis Conference in Sydney this week. The workshop was titled “Listening to young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds: Youth voices on participation and empowerment”, and featured four of MYAN’s Youth Ambassadors sharing their personal journeys as well as insights into ways to support young […]

MYAN in Geneva, Switzerland Nadine Liddy, MYAN National Coordinator recently represented MYAN at the annual meeting of the Compact on Young People in Humanitarian Action, UNHCR’s Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement (ATCR) and UNHCR’s NGO Consultations in Geneva, Switzerland. MYAN worked with Mercy Corps to organise a panel of young people from around the world to share their […]

Youth Amabassador (NSW), Narayan Khanal and Acting National Coordinator, Andrew Cummings recently appeared before the Senate inquiry into jobactive, talking about the need for targeted and specialised support to get young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds into meaningful employment.

MYAN’s Acting National Coordinator, Andrew Cummings and MYAN TAS’ Multicultural Youth Tasmania (MYT) Program Team Leader, Sally Thompson presented a national webinar this week in collaboration with Child Family Community Australia (Australian Institute of Family Studies).