Empowering young people to build a cohesive future

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The NSW Government continues to champion social cohesion and empower young people with an investment of $12.2 million to expand the proven Multicultural NSW Community Partnership Action (COMPACT) Program.

The latest funding round sees 20 innovative projects involving 65 partner organisations across New South Wales welcomed into the state-wide COMPACT Alliance, a network of community collaborators dedicated to fostering understanding and resilience.

The successful projects include:

• Institute for Economics and Peace’s peacebuilding for conflict-affected youth: A local initiative offering young people from conflict-affected backgrounds tools to mitigate the impact of global events on their communities.
• Catholic Missions’ faith-based school alliance: Connecting Year 10 and 11 students from eight faith-based schools to foster cross-cultural bonds while equipping educators with tools to enhance learning and wellbeing.
• All Together Now’s digital resilience against extremism: A co-designed youth-led project creating innovative solutions to counteract hate and divisive online influences.
• Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre’s training young leaders of the future: Empowering diverse youth in south-west Sydney to foster social cohesion through safe spaces for cross-cultural, multi-faith dialogue.

This week, the successful partners joined young leaders, digital industry experts, and fellow COMPACT Alliance partners at the COMPACT X DIGI Engage Summit.

Over two days, attendees workshopped solutions to current challenges to social cohesion and collaborated on strategies to counter online hate, build resilience, and amplify the voices of young leaders across NSW.

Since its launch, the COMPACT Program has reached more than80,000 young people, inspiring a new generation of leaders and strengthening the social fabric of our multicultural state. Its proven success lies in its ability to forge meaningful connections across diverse cultural, ethnic, and religious communities.

For more information on the COMPACT Program, visit multicultural.nsw.gov.au/community-resilience/compact.

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