Assisting unaccompanied youth to integrate

This paper provides an overview of some important considerations in relation to ‘culturally competent’, ‘culturally curious’ and child-focused practices when engaging with children and parents from refugee and migrant communities. It will invite you to reflect upon your current practice with children and families from migrant and refugee communities, and will also provide observations from practitioners about the successes, challenges and lessons they have experienced through adopting a culturally curious stance.

This paper is the second of two that discuss culturally responsive practice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing when working with families with diverse cultural (or CALD) backgrounds.

This paper is the first of two that discuss practising cultural responsiveness in working with families from diverse (or CALD) communities to support children’s mental health and wellbeing.

This paper examines five practice perspective shifts that are often utilised by family and relationship practitioners who want to engage with children about every aspect of their lives.