General resources

• ABS Migrant data matrices - also check Migrant Settlement Indicators, Experimental
• AMES Australia
• Amnesty International  2013 Report on Manus Island,   May 2014 update,  Feb 2018 update,  Oct 2016 Report on Nauru,  2017-18 Report on Nauru
• Asylum seeker hospital circular (Dec 2020)
• Asylum seeker identification - documents that may be presented as proof of asylum seeker status (Jan 2020)
• Asylum seeker identification - 'Immicard'
• Asylum seekers -  legal resources (VRHN),  local contacts (2014)
• Asylum seeker -  Foundation House (VFST) referral pathways
• Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
• Asylum Seeker SRSS Changes April 2018 and  RCH Immigrant Health information
• Australian border deaths database (Monash University)
• Cabrini Asylum Seeker and Refugee Health Hub
• Care of children in immigration detention (RCH procedure - intranet only)
• Circumcision - DHHS Guidelines for male circumcision in the Victorian Public Health System
• Community hubs project
• Dental referral (RDH) - special needs
  
• Department of Education and Training 
  
  • Continuity of support funding - NDIS alternative for non-residents) -  application for age 0-6y; for age 7y+ See Registration and Request form, and Consent form - email VINCOS.enquiries@dffh.vic.gov.au (as of Feb 2023).
  • English as an additional language (EAL)
  • EAL Handbook
  • EAL reports
  • English Language Schools in Melbourne
  • Kinder finder
  • Program for students with disabilities, including Guidelines
  • Refugee Status Report and Background information, methodology and data sources (2011)
  • School finder (includes specialist education) - also see  Australian school directory  IMVC (Inner Melbourne VET Cluster)   
    
  • SRP reference index
  • Support for refugees
• Department of Health, Victoria
  • Asylum seeker hospital circular (Dec 2020)
  • Child health services - guidelines for community health
  • Refugee and asylum seeker health services - guidelines for community health (2019)
  • Refugee and asylum seeker health and wellbeing
  • Refugee health program
• Department of Home Affairs
  • Organisational charts for Department of Home Affairs and Australian Border Force
    
  • Annual reports (current to 2022-23)
  • Community support program and CRISP program
    
  • Fact sheets - health
  • Form 1529 - Consent to collect or disclose a child's personal information
  • Health undertakings
  • Health waiver for Humanitarian entrants
  • Houston report - report on the expert panel on asylum seekers (August 2012)
  • Historical migration statistics
  • Humanitarian program 2023-24 discussion paper
  • Humanitarian program statistics - includes links to Offshore program (to 2021-22), Onshore program (to 2021-22), Onshore Processing (IMA on a BVE to Sep 2023), and UMA legacy caseload (to Dec 2023). Also see Australia's Humanitarian Program 2023-24.
  • Humanitarian settlement program
    
  • Immigration detention statistics (to Dec 2023)
    
  • Minister for Home Affairs media releases and Minister for Immigration media releases
  • Operation Sovereign Borders
  • DHA Panel Members Instructions (July 2023) and DHC supporting material (September 2023)
    
  • Settlement report facility (link to request form on website)
  • Temporary visa holders data - pivot tables
  • Visa statistics (links to other sites) and also FOI documents (assorted)
    
• Department of Social Services
  • Social Security Law - information on visa types and entitlements
• Employment - Brotherhood of St Laurence - Given the chance program
• Female circumcision -  Family Planning Victoria Service Coordination Guide (2014)
• Forced marriage - ' mybluesky' web resource (legal and practical support, including age-appropriate information), National roundtable - Forced marriage resources 
• Foundation House includes  Schools and Families in Partnership: A Desktop Guide
• inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence (formerly Immigrant Women's Domestic Violence Service)
• Migration Policy Institute (Washington) includes  country resources
• ' New roots' - app to assist settlement - aimed at refugee and asylum seeker men (developed by Settlement Services International and Beyond Blue)
• NSW refugee health service
• Outer Northern Refugee Health Network - refugee health service directory for the Hume and Whittlesea regions
• RACP  policy and  position statements: Refugee and asylum seeker health (2015)
• Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) NSW
• Refugee Council of Australia
  
• Refugee Legal (Victoria, formerly, Refugee Immigration Legal Centre (RILC)
• Refugee Health Program including contact details summary (2018 - from Refugee health practice guide) and current contacts (2022)
• Spectrum Victoria
• St Vincent De Paul Society Victoria: Can arrange/facilitate food donation and drop offs in addition to other social services - please call Welfare Assistance Line 1800 305 330 and see website
• UNHCR including  statistics at a glance, and 2013 UNHCR reports on  Manus Island and  Nauru
• Victorian Auditor-General's Office (VAGO) report:  Access to Services for Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers (May 2014)
• Victorian Refugee Health Network
• Victorian Transcultural Mental Health
  
• Waterwell project
• Welcome to the Game Disability Sports Program Victoria and Disability Sports Australia
• West Welcome Wagon - provides donated material goods to asylum seekers in Melbourne's West
• Women's Legal Service Victoria
• Worldmapper

Information by country of origin

• ABS QuickStats - enables search on country of birth by area, with comparison between 2011 and 2016 Census
• CDC Refugee health profiles
• DFAT - Countries, economies and regions
• DHA: Country profiles (this site contains links to many other resources)
• UK Migrant health guide ((UK site; includes health issues by country, and archived version - 2014  Migrant Health Guide)
• IMF Country information
• Migration Policy Institute (US)  country resources
• OECD - Education at a Glance - 2019
• UN - Human Development Report (2020)
• WHO profiles country of origin
• WHO vaccination schedules by country of origin
• World Bank - World Bank briefings, and Migration and remittances data (fascinating!)
• World Fact Book
• World mapper
  

Bilingual health professionals

• Directories of bilingual health professionals - see  GPs,  clinical psychologists,  psychology,  psychiatrists,  dietitians,  speech pathologists,  pharmacists
  

Health care worker information

• DH guidelines: Immunisation for health care workers 

Immigrant health service reports

• Immigrant health service report 2023
• Immigrant health service report 2022
• Immigrant health service report 2021
• Immigrant health service report 2020
• Immigrant health service report 2019
• Immigrant health service report 2018
• Immigrant health service report 2017
• Immigrant health service report 2016
• Immigrant health service report 2015
• Immigrant health service report 2014
• Immigrant health service report 2013
• Immigrant health service report 2012 
• Immigrant health service report 2011 
• Immigrant health service report 2010
• Immigrant health service report 2009
• Immigrant health service report 2007