For anyone settling into a new country, there are the immediate concerns to contend with finding a home, a job and schools for your children.  Beyond these initial imperatives, there are ongoing challenges such as making new friends, understanding the language, accents and different ways of your new country and finding the confidence and support to maintain and enjoy your own culture in your new setting.

The Settling In initiative was introduced in 2004 in response to the increasing ethnic  diversity in New Zealand and a growing awareness that intervention was required  beyond the early settlement period to maximise outcomes for migrants  seeking new lives here. Settling In is a strengths-based community development  programme that works directly with newcomer communities to help them find solutions to meet their own needs.  The Settling In approach is highly collaborative and  co-ordinators work with a range of government agencies and non-government  organisations, community organisations and migrant communities  to pool resources and expertise to achieve the best outcomes.

We have two Co-ordinators, one for the Albany area and one for the Korean population.