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Settlement assistance program
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The settlement assistance program can help you with your settlement needs.
We can help you:
- Find housing
- Access health services
- Understand the health system
- Access education (enrol children in school, etc)
- Deal with family issues and problems
- By providing referrals to migration agents
- Fill in forms
- Access income support through Centrelink and other agencies
- With banking and financial institutions
- Get recognition of your overseas qualifications
- Access legal advice and assistance
- By providing emotional support, respect and understanding
- With referrals to other services
- Link with social groups and community activities
- Access interpreting services
- With general settlement information and much more
Our service is available to:
- Refugees and humanitarian entrants
- Recently arrived migrants
- Dependent family members of skilled migrants
- New and emerging communities
THIS IS A FREE SERVICE
Anything you discuss with the settlement assistance co-ordinator is kept confidential. Interpreting services are available.
- To access our program referral protocol, click here
- To join our program, click here to download the referral and consent form
- Hear us talk about our program on ABC Radio by clicking here
For further information please contact
Settlement assistance co-ordinator
City of Wodonga
Hovell St
Wodonga VIC 3690
Phone: (02) 6022 9339
Email: info@wodonga.vic.gov.au
To download a copy of the Wodonga Council settlement strategy, click here
