CAMS
1. Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
2. Multicultural Development Association
3. Multilink Community Services - Logan
4. Queensland Council of Social Services
5. Migrant Settlement Services - Cairns
6. Mareeba Shire Council
7. Townsville Multicultural Support Group
8. George Street Neighbourhood Centre - Mackay
9. Mackay and District Australian South Sea Islander Association Inc.
10. Kenalwyn Bundaberg and District Neighbourhood Centre – Wide Bay,
11. Nambour Community Centre
12. Mercy Family Services - Toowoomba
13. Multicultural Communities Council Gold Coast
14. Spiritus Kinections
15. Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture &Trauma
16. Youth Affairs Network of Queensland,
The Multicultural Community Worker Program, also known as CAMS Network (Coordinated Advocacy in the Multicultural Sector) is an initiative of the Queensland Government funded by Multicultural Affairs Queensland in partnership with sixteen community organisations across Queensland. Currently we are 20 workers employed by the participating agencies, four of which are working with three ethno specific communities (Australian South Sea Islanders (Mackay), African and Pacific Islander communities (Brisbane & Logan). Also included are peak bodies and State wide agencies: Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland, Queensland Council of Social Services, Youth Affairs Network of Queensland and Multicultural Development Association. The Program assists community organisations to fulfil their community development roles with culturally and linguistically diverse groups, their advocacy and referral roles to government and non government services providers, and their role in the promotion of multiculturalism across the whole community.
The aims of the Program are to increase access, participation and cohesion in Queensland’s culturally diverse society. The Program is intended to build positive and constructive relations between government and non government service providers and people form culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and to enhance capacity across the community to address multicultural issues in a spirit of cooperation and respect.
In particular the Program aims to work with culturally and linguistically diverse groups to achieve:
Increased levels of participation in government consultation, planning, policy development and decision making;
Improved identification, communication and linkage of needs to government and non-government service providers;
Improved levels of knowledge, understanding and acceptance of the benefits of cultural diversity in the community;
Enhanced levels of community capacity to identify and communicate issues and needs, to develop independent linkages with service providers, to participate fully in community life and to develop sustainable community initiatives and solutions
CAMS is an inspirational and action oriented Network where ideas that identify, promote and progress key issues impacting on the well being of multicultural Queensland can be nurtured and sustained
Community Development
Cultural Diversity