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How can AMES help you?

I want to learn English or get training

Learning English can help you meet other people, connect with your community and learn more about living in Australia. Learning English can also help you get ready for a job or training.

 

I want a job

Working together, we’ll find you the right job. We are Australia’s largest specialist provider working with people from all multicultural backgrounds.

 

I am an employer seeking skilled workers

We can provide new staff for your business. If you would like to list a job vacancy or you need additional staff with specific skills, we can help.

 

I want to volunteer

We make volunteering easy so that you can help newly arrived refugees and migrants make the most of their new life in Victoria.


 

Welcome to AMES

We are Australia’s largest provider of humanitarian settlement, education, training and employment services for refugees and newly arrived migrants. We link our services together to create better outcomes for our clients, which helps us achieve our mission of “Full participation for all in a cohesive and diverse society.”

  • 17-05-2012

    New Zealand Herald

    Migrant study shows English ability hits income

    The importance of migrants being able to speak English has been highlighted by a survey which shows level of ability affects migrants' earning power. The Longitudinal Immigration Survey followed the employment experiences of over 5000 migrants in their first three years after gaining permanent resi

  • 17-05-2012

    Latrobe Valley Express

    Multicultural council to help identify shortfalls in Gippsland

    SHORTFALLS in serving the needs of Gippsland's growing migrant, refugee and asylum-seeker community is presently a top local priority for the Department of Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship.

  • 14-05-2012

    Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

    ECCV and Welcome to Australia hold Welcome Party for Newly Arrived

    Last weekend the Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria and Welcome to Australia hosted migrants and refugees for a Welcome Party at an Australian family home.

  • 13-05-2012

    Maroondah Leader

    Tea and talk break down language barriers

    A SIMPLE cuppa and chat is making the world of difference to Vietnamese immigrant Tran Thi Thu Ha. Each week, Ha, as she is known, looks forward to a visit from Jeanette Giles so they can swap stories about their families, cooking, shopping and what they did on the weekend.

  • 11-05-2012

    The Brotherhood Library Current Awareness Portal

    New book: “Migrant women act.”

    This book has recently been added to the Brotherhood of St Laurence library collection Migrant Women Act shows the creativity and ingenuity of migrant women in shaping their own destinies during resettlement.

  • 11-05-2012

    Daily Life

    How far would you go to protect your children?

    It was 1980 and I was barely eight years old, when the Iraqi government sent my family to Iran. I was born in Iraq, but because of an Iranian great grandfather, Saddam Hussein’s regime deemed us to not be Iraqi.

  • 10-05-2012

    Carlton Football Club

    Painting the world Blue

    The Carlton Football Club has always prided itself on having Australia's most culturally diverse supporter base, but we know that the nation's population-growth is an ever-changing dynamic.

  • 10-05-2012

    The Courier

    New initiative for Ballarat's growing migrant population

    BALLARAT has been announced as the second regional Victorian site for a Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY) during the Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Nicholas Kotsiras’ visit to Ballarat yesterday.

  • 08-05-2012

    Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

    In Conversation – Multicultural Arts Victoria CEO Jill Morgan

    The arts are a crucial way for communities to connect with new ideas and cultures. This week ECCV spoke with Multicultural Arts Victoria (MAV) CEO Jill Morgan about their role in fostering diversity through performance and creativity.

  • 08-05-2012

    Maroondah Weekly

    Fair dinkum effort for new migrants

    SERENA Seah knows all too well the overwhelming loneliness that comes with starting over in a foreign country. Sixteen years ago she left Singapore with her husband and son in search of a less stressful lifestyle.

  • 16/04/2012

    AMES celebrates 2012 Cultural Diversity Week

    AMES staff, clients and stakeholders across Melbourne banded together to celebrate 2012 Cultural Diversity Week

  • 24/03/2012

    Water safety in the South East

    AMES youth clients braved the fresh weather for a water safety presentation from the Mentone Life Saving Club in late March.

  • 01/03/2012

    Skilled migrants test their networking skills

    Over 100 skilled migrants tested out their new networking skills at the annual AMES Skilled Professional Migrants Program (SPMP) gathering.

  • 26/06/2009

    Youth and Law Forum

    Exploring past and present experiences of young refugees with the law and legal issues and best practice inititaives within emerging communities

Did you know?

Words to work

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A three-year study of new arrivals who have attended AMES language programs found that 95 per cent of refugee and migrant survey respondents indicated an intention to work in Australia and almost all would study further to enhance their employment prospects. Click here to read a full copy of the research entitled 'Words to Work'