Developing resources to support staff to better understand and respond to the experiences of young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds in tertiary education settings
Building capacity of university staff to work with refugee & migrant students: A collaborative project between MYAN NSW & Refugee Education Special Interest Group
MYAN Australia’s National Youth Settlement Framework outlines education as a central point for successful settlement. Higher education opens up employment pathways and network building opportunities that are crucial to the wellbeing and active participation of newly arrived young people. However, academic and support staff must be across the way students from migrant and refugee backgrounds have different, and specific needs from their Australian-born peers. Aimed to support higher education staff help their students succeed, this resource has been modelled on the National Youth Framework and co-designed with young people with lived experience.
The project has been supported by the Refugee Education Special Interest Group (RESIG) and piloted with academic and support staff, as well as students involved in UNSW’s ASPIRE program.
What’s included
Report:
This report explains the programs’ methodology and findings, along with insights into the experiences of students from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Training Resources:
A set of scenarios used to practice and instil the necessary best-practices into your programs.
An understanding of the NYSF, good practice capabilities, and active citizenship is required to use the resources effectively.
User guide:
A guide to support academic and support staff make the best use out of the report and training resources.
To access training for yourself or workplace please submit an EOI here
Developed by MYAN Australia, The NYSF remains Australia’s first and only evidence-based national guide to benchmark good practice with young people from refugee and migrant backgrounds