Settlement Services
Settlement Services
Spectrum’s Settlement Services provides support to newly arrived migrants and refugees in the first five years of your time in Australia. We work with individuals, families and groups to help you navigate your new life in Melbourne.
Our Settlement and Family Services team are highly qualified and experienced in supporting migrants and refugees. We care deeply for each of our clients and understand that each person arrives with individual needs and hopes, complex challenges, and their own cultural and language preferences.
All of our work is driven by lived experience: many of our staff have also arrived in Australia as refugees or humanitarian migrants. So you can be sure that from the time you arrive in Australia, you are in caring hands at Spectrum, with people who will really listen to you.
Spectrum works closely with other Government and community organisations, meaning that you can be connected to all the services and support that you need to thrive.
Humanitarian Settlement Program
Spectrum’s Humanitarian Settlement Program offers early, practical support to help newly arrived refugees settle into their local community.
Specialised and Intensive Services
Specialised services for refugees and people seeking asylum who have urgent or complex needs around family, health, housing, safety and more.
General Settlement Support
Free settlement support, useful programs, and services to help new migrants settle into life in Australia.
Settlement Programs
Spectrum also offers specialised programs for every newly arrived person, to suit your individual goals.
Visit our Families, Youth and Employment pages or ask us about:
- Orientation in the North, Spectrum’s program to help you get to know your new city and local community
- Talk Time, where you can improve your English skills and make new social connections
- Parenting in a New Culture (PINC), Dads and Kids Sports Squad, and other help for family and relationships
- Working in a New Culture (WINC), Skills First Reconnect, and other ways of helping you find and keep a job or build your career
- Youth Transition Support, and our other supports for young people aged 12-25
To find out more about all the ways that we can help you and your loved ones thrive as you settle into life in Australia, you can contact our Settlement team below.
Hope thrives here
“As a former refugee subjected to torture in my home country, I know how hard life is. Spectrum migrant resource centre is doing a great work for most vulnerable people in this country. I wish my very best to them to help refugees. Spectrum brings diversity, inclusiveness, hope and love to Australia. This feels me, still Australia is a place of welcome.”
-Settlement client
Why Spectrum?
Safe and welcoming services
Our staff come from over 50 different countries and speak more than 30 languages. Their lived experience helps us support diverse communities in a respectful way.
We put our clients first
We believe in person-centred care. We listen to you and respect your story. We treat everyone with kindness and dignity.
Trusted for 40 years
We have helped migrants and refugees for over 40 years. Our services meet high quality standards.
