Australian community sponsorship program – Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District

Australia’s Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Pilot (CRISP) – which will resettle 1,500 refugees over the next three years – is based on Canada’s long-running Private Sponsorship of Refugees program. Private Sponsorship of Refugees has run uninterrupted for more than 40 years and resettled more than 325,000 refugees, in addition to refugees resettled by the Canadian government.

	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District acknowledges the Yorta Yorta People of the land which comprises the Goulburn Valley. We pay respect to tribal Elders, past, present and emerging and we celebrate their continuing culture and acknowledge the memory of their ancestors.
	The Ethnic Council of Shepparton and District is a peak body whose mission is to promote and represent the social, cultural and economic well-being of ethnic communities in the Goulburn Valley Region through the provision of quality and innovative settlement, refugee support, community development, and information and advocacy services.