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Spectrum Migrant Resource Centre (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 Spectrum MRC 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 launching several unique and innovative parenting and intergenerational youth programs supporting new refugee and migrant families and children 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.

The key vision of Spectrum is to ensure that that new migrants and refugees to Australia are able to reach their full potential. In order to achieve this purpose, settlement service packages are designed and specifically tailored to meet the on-arrival and longer term settlement and integration needs of specific migrants and refugees experiencing settlement and integration barriers and difficulties. SMRC re-settlement and integration assistance covers five major key settlement and integration needs :

  • Immediate On-arrival and medium term post-arrival settlement housing and orientation assistance and Immigration legal advice services (SIS) to refugee and humanitarian sponsors; practical Support and skills training to new and emerging refugee and “at-risk” immigrant community groups
  • Migrant re-settlement Family and Youth Programs for new migrant and refugee parents and youth specific programs designed offer skills through parenting courses, intergenerational courses for migrant parents and teenagers, Bi-lingual Psychological counseling Services, Refugee No-Interest Loans and financial and consumer assistance, social and friendship networks by joining “My new Aussie mate” cultural exchange program(s);
  • Spectrum Employment Services and Job Matching services and training vocational training courses specifically designed to support new skilled migrants and long term unemployed job seekers.
  • Spectrum Multicultural Aged In-Home & Centre Adult Day Care catering to migrant elderly through the trained and professionally accredited bi-lingual Home Care workers catering to over 67 language and cultural groups.
  • New social enterprises designed to benefit SMRC whilst offering employment and vocational pathways to migrants and refugees and access to settlement services.
  • Migrant projects consultancy and Cultural Competency Skills courses, migrant and refugee focus groups and evaluation research to Government and Non-government organizations