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Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (SMRC) is a one-stop-shop catering for the needs of newly arrived and established migrants and refugees.

To ensure that new migrants and refugees to Australia are able to reach their full potential, we have developed settlement service packages specifically tailored to meet the on-arrival and longer term settlement and integration needs. NEW! Follow Spectrum on Twitter!

What we do

Our services include:

  • Immediate on-arrival and medium term post-arrival settlement housing and orientation assistance and immigration legal advice services (Spectrum Immigration Services - SIS) to migrants, including refugee and humanitarian sponsors; practical support and skills training to new and emerging refugee and immigrant community groups;
  • Migrant re-settlement family and youth programs for new migrant and refugee parents and youth specific programs designed to offer skills through parenting courses for migrant parents and teenagers, bi-lingual psychological counselling services, no-interest loans and financial and consumer assistance, social and friendship networks;
  • Job matching services and training vocational training courses (Spectrum Education & Training - SET) specifically designed to support new skilled migrants and long term unemployed job seekers (Spectrum Employment Services - SES);
  • Aged in-home & centre adult day care catering to migrant elderly through the trained and professionally accredited bi-lingual support home care workers of our Spectrum Multicultural Home Support Service (MHSS) catering to over 67 language and cultural groups;
  • Migrant projects consultancy and cultural competency skills courses, migrant and refugee focus groups and evaluation research to government and non-government organisations.

Our History

SMRC was initially established in 1984 to provide settlement services for migrants and refugees living in the Northern region incorporating the municipalities of Yarra, Darebin, Whittlesea, Banyule, Nillumbik, Hume and Moreland.

In the past 10 years, the SMRC was known as the Northern Migrant Resource Centre (NMRC). In 2007, it launched its new name, Spectrum MRC, in recognition of its new innovative services and programs serving migrants and refugee clients beyond northern metropolitan Melbourne. We offer statewide services such as Spectrum Immigration services, Spectrum Education and Training Centre, cultural and multilingual Aged Home Care & Personal Support for carer families, as well as launching several unique and innovative parenting and intergenerational youth programs supporting new refugee and migrant families choosing to settle in Victoria.

The SMRC is popular with new migrant and refugee families because it offers a “one stop-shop” for migrants and refugee families and individuals that are new to Australia through a wide menu of over 21 re-settlement and integration services and programs and employs staff fluent in 17 relevant community languages and cultural backgrounds reflecting the diversity of Victoria’s migrants and refugee settlers.

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