PACIFIC IS PISSAM NETWORK Recommendation

Our Recommendation is in regards to our programs in the different levels of the community

EDUCATION

Kalo focus her research with a focus on Pacific Islanders education and a long reflective on the past, present and a future hoping and urging a serious lift in the quality of bi cultural education and more support after school to support slow learners, special needs, disadvantage Pacific Islanders children to catch up on what they have missed out at school due to various factors.

It is showing a significant increase in school attendance across Canterbury and beyond for Pacific Islanders children from the Pacific Islanders communities, including one of Pacific islanders Australia's most troubled areas where Pacific Islanders PISSAM members are present at those schools to support special need children. Kalo is looking to an American school model championed by President Barack Obama for part of Pacific Islanders Australia's education solution.

As an ambitious attempt to take the Pacific Islanders indigenous education debate to the highest level, as governments struggle to improve the most basic outcomes of literacy and numeracy. PISSAMEis seeking funding from the Jobs Fund for a
ITS local project.
Recommendation:
THAT the Committee consider ways to promote job creation and social inclusion projects funded
under the Federal government’s Job Fund.
Progress on a No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) Program in Canterbury

The huge challenge of providing a quality education for Pacific Islanders indigenous children in mainstream, while at the same time trying to preserve a dying Pacific Islanders indigenous while western culture is taking over Pacific Islanders Children where parents are still clinging on to Pacific Islanders culture.

Well, the challenge is for Pacific Islanders Australian children to live in two worlds - their old world that they bring from the South Pacific and the mainstream global world of Australia introduce to them in Australia, and enjoy the best of both. Growing up in Australia, they are enjoying the best of both in complicated situations. Not knowing if they are coming or going.

In fact, our Pacific Islanders in Australia is one of eventual cultural disadvantages, and in my view, if we are to avoid that fate we have to fix education up. A Change to better education. Education will take Pacific Islanders to equality in any level in Society. Education will bring understanding the values of both world and Education will be the path to glory.

Education is the fundamental challenge, so that we can secure a future for Pacific Islanders children where they are able to enjoy the fruits of participating in the Australian mainstream whilst keeping their culture, heritage and their traditional languages.

Kalo believes that we have failed in that challenge so far, there are only isolated examples of truly bi cultural Pacific Islanders people who succeed in both worlds, and in her view we have to turn these isolated examples into a kind of general result for the ordinary Pacific Islanders children.

Kalo says that education is riven with ideological debate, more than any other policy area, a key battleground between left and right, saying that ideological debate has retarded or confused the issue of education, the kind of ideal education you are talking about, for Pacific Islanders Indigenous Australians?

Kalo says she has spent her entire life and many years in education in the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia and abroad from ground level up to the directorship level just sitting on the ridges of education policy generally, Pacific Islanders indigenous education and mainstream education policy, and she has observed these debates over the past decade.

And for example, the idea that education for Pacific Islanders children and people should be culturally appropriate - now the problem with that concept, she soon came to discover, was that culturally appropriate education seemed to suggest that a special need Pacific Islanders child shouldn't go to University because the school have decided that they will never be able to get there. For example, because the school in their decision that some students capabilities will not get there period. University can be achieved if not now in a later stage. University may not be culturally appropriate in their eyes but in a later stage there will be a turn around, let's leave the decision for the student it may concern. Kalo says she can see that, while a Pacific Islander child cannot catch up with the mainstream because of his disadvantages that is why we run homework after-school from 5pm to 9pm. Primary students can leave early as soon as their problems are solved. The school write on their Diary what help a child will be given from the PISSAM's facilitators. In this way the child is catching up and it will encourage them to keep on persevering to fulfill his dream to go to University or even via Tafe.

In her view, some of this poor thinking that had developed in education philosophy and in education policy had to be critically analysed and a lot of it abandoned because cultural appropriateness eventually came to be quite an anti-intellectual and socially confining concept for Pacific Islanders children.

She strongly believes that we should be producing Pacific Islanders children who may choose to be experts in various fields like Education literature, or in classical music, Sports teachers, doctors, lawyers, and the list goes on. You know, the Pacific Islanders children have an entitlement to the best of the world's culture, and at the same time they can keep their own culture and languages as well.

The proposition that she have put up, to the 2 levels of Government and to the Federal Government is one for a structure in and out of classroom that combines both the worlds that you talk about. The whole spectrum of the community, from raising a newly born baby, kindergarden, primary, secondly, tertiary up to getting a job and starting a family. Now what is the basis of that format?

As the PISSAM CEO I wish to put a proposal to three levels of the governments to develop an educational approach for primary school children in discreet Pacific Islanders communities across Canterbury and beyond, which combined an unrelenting emphasis on Western education, as well as that which will be united as class levels, but as well as that a complementary learning domain in culture, that enables traditional languages to be learned and transmitted to new generations, and also an equal commitment to what we call united. That is: music, art, culture, values, and sport, at a very high level. We want to also fill the gaps the middle class advantage that our kids miss out on, and that is what the experts call concerted cultivation by the parents, afterhours cultivation by the parents. Children, facilitators and service providers.But in order for us to do that, we'll need an afternoon with facilitators, children, and parents once a week to start off with and if it needed more days and we will accommodate those needs..

So our proposal proposes to start the program at 5 and finish at nine.Kalo is hoping to have have a very productive meeting with the Premier Nathan Rees, Robert Furolo, Linda Burney, Tony Burke, Daryl Melham and other ministers where Pacific Islanders are mostly resided and locations where support are most needed. Aslo with the Education, Immigration, Foreign Affairs and the Attorney General Department.

Kalo says that the Network has been running and ready for support from the 3 levels of government. It could never propose something like this, but it is a must and the whole spectrum of the whole community is set to go. Theil the 3 levels of government are aware of the many issues of Pacific Islanders and until they work with the PISSAM to fix up some of the basic parameters that are necessary before we can fix what we call the supply side of education, the teaching supply side of education. Before she could propose anything credible in the teaching supply space, we had to fix up the learning demand aspect. That is, you need the children in school, identify their problem and we work on the improvement, and give all the help they need, in the classroom by the teacher, and what extra support a child need will be given by the PISSAM PROGRAM.

So school attendance has been the first part of our focus over the past 3 years, and particularly in these recent years we have now got welfare reforms in place that are seeing increased school attendance and, you know, it was never going to be possible for me to turn around and ask what kind of education is this school providing, when we didn't even have the kid in the classroom in the first place. We had to fix up the school attendance, the parents readiness, the children rediness, the school readiness and PISSAM readiness, and welfare reform was required for that.

Kalo says that the models in the United States could appropriately be adapted to Australia? What can we learn from other systems in other countries?

Well the model that we are looking at is what Barack Obama calls the "No Excuses Schools". These are a set of public schools, private schools and charter schools that have a philosophy of no excuses. They believe that cultural background, socioeconomic disadvantage, poverty, these are not educational destiny, they do not prescribe a destiny.

Rather, a school can transcend those circumstances and the philosophy that these schools push is that schools should be the point of transformation. It should lift children out of their socioeconomic disadvantage, and provide for them a prospect that they would otherwise not have, that their parents never had.

And the challenge for public education for Pacific Islanders Australians, and might say, for lower-class Australians generally - the challenge is for Australian governments to get serious about creating no excuses schools, that is, schools that never surrender to the idea that socioeconomic disadvantage is destiny.

Kalo Sikimeti

Education

Recommendation 1

The Government, through the Ministry of Education/Agencies, should ensure that future national human resource development needs are being met through an allocation of scholarships to meet the forecast needs of Pacific Islanders’ students who will be entering University to be teachers (in both the Government service and the private sector), as demonstrated in the training needs analysis.

Recommendation 2

The Government through the Ministry of Education should ensure
that education of Pacific Islanders is supported as a lifelong process, and that systems allow for second chance for special needs and slow learners and continuing education and training, by establishing a national strategy for lifelong learning, including:programs for the promotion of good health, physical fitness and sports, community social and Development, inclusion, participation in partnership with PISSAM program and its specialist working partners.

• daily, weekly, monthly and annual programs for children, youths, parents support, opportunities for re-entry to formal schooling by adults and early leavers, support for non-formal educational opportunities, and an adult literacy program; and

• supporting the return to formal learning through the Catholic University preliminary and foundation courses and with government schools and other education providers.

Recommendation 3

The Government through the Ministry of Education should
ensure that education is supported as a lifelong process by:

• exploring opportunities to develop life and work skill modules that can be undertaken in homes and using radio and distance learning methods, combined with local mentoring support; and

• actively supporting, promoting and expanding existing short-term training, and providing community and continuing education opportunities, including attachments and short courses outside Australia extended as volunteers for Student teachers to go to their Island homes to gain knowledge of grassroots values, understanding of teaching and learning and vice versa with teachers coming from the Island home on a scholarship form for 2 years funded by Aussie Aid.

Reform of Education Administration

Recommendation 4

The Ministry of Education should develop a national Strategic Plan for Education (based on the document accompanying this Report) which:

• bears a clear relationship to the National Strategic Development Plan and the current Government reform exercise;

• sets out goals and objectives for education in schools where they identifies slow learners as Pacific Islanders.

• aims to increase effectiveness and efficiency to support those PI identified and can work with PISSAM after hours in the PISSAM homework support program

• plans for progressive improvements to the education system over the minimum term: medium term; high need term.

• allows the Ministry of Education to undertake responsibility for policy oversight of the whole education system through the development of national guidelines and the Pacific Islanders’ expert on Education to be part of that program.

• fosters improved networks and partnerships between the Government and Non-Government sectors; with the School, children and parents of Pacific Islanders’ representatives like the PISSAM

• considers where devolution of more responsibility to schools and their
communities would be in the national interest, and how any appropriate
changes might be managed progressively over time;
• reviews the current national network of schooling provision; and
• moves progressively to reform the national distribution of funds for education where such reform is in the national interest. Pacific Islanders Bodies who runs programs must be those in their Capacity as qualified professional’s specialists and are members of a professional body. Other supporters like University Students and unqualified people will be supervised by them. The past, current professionals working with the future professionals which are our University Students is a priority not to take lightly by the government to carry on the ongoing work are welcome by PISSAM.

Recommendation 5

The Ministry of Education should consider restructuring the administration and management of the Ministry in order to strengthen its policy development role, its administrative structure, and its capacity to deliver education more effectively. PISSAM is happy to contribute in putting forward issues facing the PI students which are real and it will help PI students to a whole new level

Recommendation 6

The Ministry of Education should develop a National Strategic Plan for
school property development and investment as part of the overall Strategic
Plan for Education in school where they identifies slow learners and extreme hardship in the families where students are not progressing due to the consequences they face at home.

Recommendation 7

The Government through the Ministry of Education should review
the Education Act., and amend it if necessary, in order to take into
account any changes adopted by Government that arise from issues the
Education Sector Study and the development of the Strategic Plan for
Education when it comes that the Act no longer viable and relevant and to make sense according to the needs of the students.

Recommendation 8

Education Assistance Program

Recommendation 9

The Government Development, in consultation
with the other external funding bodies, should consider making a commitment to a
co-ordinates program of support (an Education Assistance Program)
over the next five years in order to support the directions finally adopted by
the Government with the PISSAM Proposal and its Strategic Plan for Education to assure that the program will take to the highest level; Example Insurance

COMMUNITY RADIO

Recommendation 10

Investigation to community radio programs. Are they running the programs to benefit the community or they are running it to benefit themselves. There were problems with Bankstown Community Radio. What happen the local Bankstown communities were not happy with too many Pacific Islanders’ overcrowded programs and overpowering the radio station and their purpose for their community was no longer a priority? The local communities were concerned and it end up off from airing. The communities voice their concern over mismanagement and other agendas. We definitely needed a radio station so we can communicate with students and parents on general issues that are identified as gaps on education, health, community awareness, legal support and others. Pacific Islanders love listening to the radio, it is like a form of a must to all Pacific Islanders to listen to radio programs especially if they are learning and education tools. Preference on ABC for geographical and demographic reason so every Pacific Islanders in all states will tune in.

Community Health, community development & community awareness

Recommendation:11

A LIFT AT PUNCHBOWL STATION. DISABLE PEOPLE, ELDERLIES, MOTHERS AND BABIES DEPEND ON A KIND HEARTED PERSON TO HELP. SOMETIMES PEOPLE help AND SOMETIMES THEY DON’T.

Recommendation:12

CANTERBURY MULTICULTURAL RADIO RUN BY CANTERBURY COUNCIL , AND REPRESENTATIVES OF SERVICE PROVIDERS, PROFESSIONALS, BUSINESSES, SCHOOLS, POLICE, CLUBS, STATE GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND WELFARE AGENCIES TO ADDRESSED SERVICES, THAT IS GOING ON IN OUR COMMUNITIES. TO RUN BY LOCAL COMMUNITIES WHO TAKE AN INTEREST ON LOCAL ISSUES ON WTHAT CAN EASE DIFFICULT ISSUES THAT GOES ON THE DAILY LIVES OF CANTERBURY CITIZENS THIS WILL BE A GOOD EFFECTIVE WAY OF THE DIFFERENT SERVICES TO OUR COMMUNITY.

Recommendation:13

APPROVAL FOR MEDICARE CARD FOR THOSE PRIVATE BUSINESS WHO PARTNERSHIP WITH US TO DELIVER SERVICES TO SERVICE THOSE WHO FIT THE CATEGORY SIMILAR TO LEGAL AID. WE WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR SCREENING THOSE IN NEED IF THEY CAN FALL IN THAT CATERGORY OTHERWISE THEY WILL HAVE TO PAY. The Screening will be done by us approved and ok before the service will be delivered. E.g. When the school system goes no where because of cultural appropriate with some multicultural cultures. They can refer to the doctor and the doctor refer to the Social worker. So we make sure that the problem will be identified assessed and service provider will have access to the problem with the permission of the customer. This way it will diagnose the problem so it can be given the best service that is appropriate.

Recommendation:14

WHEN THERE IS A DEATH IN THE FAMILY WITH NO MONEY. THE FUNERAL PARLOR CAN HAVE ACCESS ON A MEDICARE CARD APPROVED BY THEIR SUPERANNUATION TO GO AHEAD WITH THE FUNERAL TILL THEIR INSURANCE, FUNERAL BOND COME THROUGH. MONEY FROM SOLICITORS, INSURANCES, PUBLIC TRUSTEE AND PROTECTION COMMISSIONERS WILL GO DIRECTLY TO THE FUNERAL PARLOR. IN THE PAST THE FUNERAL PARLOR DID THE SERVICE WITH PROMISES FROM CLIENT AND AT THE END. THE LEGAL APPLICANT WILL SPEND THE MONEY ON THEIR OWN USE AND OTHER THINGS REFUGING TO PAY FOR THE FUNERAL. FUNERAL PARLORS HAD BAD EXPERIENCES IN THE PAST IT RUN IN HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF UNPAID INVOICES BY MANY CLIENTS. A DEATH THAT HAS NO FAMILY (EG. A DESTITUE) CAN ORGANISE WITH OUR LOCAL FUNERAL PARLOUR WITH A VERY LOW PRICE AND THE GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTE WITH THE BALANCE. PACIFIC ISLANDERS DO NOT NEED THIS, WHEN SOMEONE DIES THE FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY PUT IN AND SOMETIMES IT DOES NOT GO TO THE FUNERAL SERVICE IT WILL GO TO SOMEONE’S POCKET. IN CASE OF OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IT WILL BE SCREEN BEFORE GIVEN ANY OF THESE SERVICE.

Recommendation 15:

Professionals DEALING WITH PEOPLE, in NEED should be SPECIAL skills who are professionals in their capacity representing the profession they belong to only to deal with these people and support workers must be under supervision at all times. TO empower people and to influence them by attitudes and to MAKE IT work. WE MAKE SURE THE SERVICE MEET THE PEOPLE’S NEED. THE HARDEST THING IN LIFE IS DEALING WITH People WHERE THEIR NEED IS NEVER THE PRIORITY, NOT VERY GOOD TO PUT UP SUCH A GOOD REPORT AND NOT DELIVER THE NEED OF THE PEOPLE THAT THE SERVICE WERE MEANT FOR. Misdiagnose issues will only in strife and will not meet what PISSAM has to achieve.

Recommendation 16:

Annual Survey, research to INVESTIGATE PROJECTS THAT RUN BY PEOPLE WHO UNDERPERFORM AND DO NOT TAKE THE NEED OF THE COMMUNITY SERIOUSLY TO GO FORWARD. E.G. A LOT OF FUND HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED AND GIVEN TO SOME ORGANISATIONS AND THEIR SERVICE IS STILL THE SAME OR EVEN WORSE. LIKE SOME WILL NOT DELIVER APPROPRIATELY AND UNDERPERFORM. WHEN A CLIENT RANG THEY HAVE TO WAIT FOR SO LONG FOR APPOINTMENT OR THE PERSON THAT A CLIENT WISH TO SEE WILL BE IN MEETINGS FOR DAYS AND DAYS. THEY WILL NEVER RESPONSE TO THE NEED OF THE CLIENT. THEY WILL NEVER RING BACK. WHEN THIS HAPPENS THE CLIENT LOST INTEREST AND THE PROBLEM WILL BE EVEN WORSE. Ongoing issues.

MORE INVESTIGATION TO HOW THEY SPEND THE FUNDS ALLOCATED TO THEIR PROJECTS. MORE INVESTIGATION ON THE SERVICE THEY PROVIDE ARE THEY VIABLE, ADEQUATE, APPROPRIATELY DELIVERED AND DOCUMENTED AND THE TIME FRAME THEY SHOULD SPEND ON THE PROJECTS AND THE OUTCOME. DID THE PROJECTS MOVE FORWARD AND PROVE THAT they were EXECUTED.

Recommendation 17:

THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS PROJECTS, SHOULD HAVE A QUIDELINE AND A NEED FOR THE COMMUNITY AND SHOULD BE WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SCHOOLS AND THE LOCAL COUNCIL and the Community. PACIFIC ISLANDERS SHOULD HAVE A REFERENCE BODY WITH PROFESSIONAL, SPECIALISED ON HEALTH, mental issues, child protection, EDUCATION, LEGAL, HUMAN RESOURCES, COMMUNITY SERVICES, BUSINESESS AND PROVeN THAT THEY ARE SPECIALISED on THE ISSUES. SUPPORTED BY LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL LEADERS TO SCRUTINISE PEOPLE WHO RUN PROJECTS THAT HAS DONE IN THE PAST AND DOES NOT PERFORM. KEEP GOING FROM ONE AREA TO ANOTHER AREA FOR MORE funding PROJECTS THAT DOES NOT EXITS.

Recommendation:18

More investigation on Pacific Islanders who have prior projects and have change names for many unexplained reasons and not notify the fund sources

RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING DEATHS IN CUSTODY, SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES & ACCIDENTS OF PACIFIC ISLANDERS & INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

Recommendation:19

Pacific Islanders Commission & professional Reference Group alty

a. Canterbury Harmony Group inc. in partnership with PISSAM.S working partners, Service Providers, Education specialists, Doctors, Solicitors, social workers, teachers, Registered nurse, Security Owners, Counselors, Accountant, Service Providers, Mortician, Professionals Leaders, Skilled workers who has been working with us for years, University Students as researchers auspice by Riverwood Community Centre to supported by Canterbury council and sponsored by Department of Housing and Department of Community Services and Department of Immigration and Department of Education. The above Commission will assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the organization.

Recommendation : 20

These commission will be the reference organization for any enquiries between Government bodies and other Agencies. The doctor (appropriate), solicitor (appropriate), social worker (appropriate ) Next of kin (appropriate) Grief Counsellor (appropriate) the Mortician and the Coordinator be notified immediately when there is a death in custody with a Pacific Islander/or any member’s of the Canterbury Harmony Group inc. (Multicultural) and the General Community across Canterbury. It should allowed the Solicitor, Doctor, and the Mortician and the legal applicant which will be a family member to inspect the scene of death with the presence of the State coroner appointed to conduct the inquiry directs otherwise, and in writing, to the appropriate family members and representatives approved by the family.

Reccomendation 21:

That all officers involved in the investigation of a death in police Custody be selected from an Internal affairs unit, or from a police command area other than that in which the death occurred and in every respect should be as independent as possible from police offices concerned with matters under investigation. Police officers who were on duty during the time of last detention of a person who died in custody should take no part in the investigation into the death same as the witness.

Recommendation 22:

As soon as the death occurs. Doctor, solicitor and mortician/interpreter after receiving advice of a death in custody to assist the coroner who will conduct the inquiry into the death. The processes should not include anybody that work for the director of Public Prosecutions. The Selection of the officer – in – charge of the police investigation into a death in custody be made by an officer of chief commissioner, Director or Assisting Commissioner Rank.

Recommendation: 23

That Coroners offices in all states, Territories maintain a uniform database to record details of Pacific Islanders origin or part Pacific Islanders, Pacific Islanders born overseas who is a resident of Australia or abroad. Australian deaths in Custody with the Australian Institute of Criminology and other Government bodies and authorized organizations and individuals to complete and maintain records of death in custody. Death in Police Custody covers death in Institution Settings, close contact situations. Police operations, which covers situation in which police has less control over the person they were seeking to detain, such as sieges and motor vehicles pursuits.

Recommendation: 24

*******The Australian Independent Commission co-ordinate and Implement series of Pacific Islanders and Australian surveys IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PISSAM with a booklet to prepare Family and other Information Resources to have access to and be available for all the relevant Councils, police, Doctors, Funeral Parlors, solicitors, counselors, teachers, social workers, members of the deceased family, Prison and Institution in Custody. With the Skilled, experienced and appropriate members of the Pacific Islanders Commission can run workshops on the different need that faced the Pacific Islanders that increased their problems that they end up in jail. Sure, there are many reasons why? To identify the problem and take prevention and protection immediately will be the best medicine. To stop the fire or let it burn right out. There is always hope for anyone in our community to turn around.

Healthy living is encourage at home, at school in the community with the services that initiated and run by the local council, state, and Federal bodies which is known by families and communities. They are all accessible and there are few Pacific Islanders’ doctor’s surgery, one in Belmore, Lidcombe and Mt Druitt Area. There is a Pacific Islander Service provider clinical Social worker, Counsellor and grief Counsellor at Kogarah and in the city as well. There are many registered nurses working for public, private hospitals and Nursing homes. There is a Pacific Islander Director of Nursing in Strathfield who can help in any situation regarding these services

Community Hall:

In most of the Churches and congregation, Pacific Islander can use those halls but it depends on their arrangement, most of them are paid if the community wishes to use them. Pacific Islanders needed halls for many activities, birthdays, funerals wake, social function and many others. We are in desperate for a community hall where we can use it, which will be close to the station, so parents and children can have easy excess and also close to the library. The senior citizen in Belmore is an ideal place for our Pacific Islanders Community. We are happy that Canterbury council has given us one day a week from 6 till nine so the children, parents and will be supported by pacific Islanders teachers, counselors, social workers and students to help with any problems homework, parenting, counseling will be there to support and questions about counseling, health issues and education.

Pacific Islanders’ Development Projects

Some several projects planned for the future has been going on since 2005 successfully and completed, were achieved with our own effort and little help from the government but with the support or of professional partners, Service providers, like solicitors, social workers, counselors, doctors and the legal aid systems for the disadvantages. With the support and the 2 venues that provided by Canterbury Council. Our Co-coordinator’s involvement with the General Communities and our partnerships with our working partners gave us results. In Canterbury, at Belmore we got a Pacific Islander doctor, a service provider for counseling, and clinical support and homework service that run by a former director of schools and a teacher in the Pacific Islands, new Zealand and Australia, supported by 2 teachers who were teachers in Tonga and Australia and a Counselor who was a teacher in Tonga and had extensive experiences in community services, grief counseling, mortician, interpreter. Also 5 University students of Pacific Islander’s background. a Director of Nursing that look after health issues and age care for our elderly.

Building a stronger Pacific Islander’s community

A community that enjoyed space, freedom and not overcrowded. PI need have access to housing, it sad that housing is not available in emergency situation. Sometimes it sad to see children, who shared with so many families in a small dwelling that interfere with their studies where many children and youths were reduced to tears when they cannot cope with such situations.

A lot of the children are disadvantage for not having access to housing, many are concern that they needed a place to go to when things are going bad at home, a place where they can do their homework, a place that it is their own, children sleeping in garages, when there are too many people living in a at home. A place where they can have privacy and focus on their school work There is a need for housing to be available to pacific Islanders in emergency situations in Campsie. These are a need for a 24 hrs place in the Canterbury area for that emergency with children and youths. They are many desperate situation raised by youths, and counsellors who understand them, work alongside them at school but needed urgent attention. Supporting them in difficult situation that may save their lives. Lack of hope, Some youths want time out. There is a need for Computers and free internet access in Campsie for youths and parents that may be made available through a partnership between Housing NSW and PISSAM the auspice body Riverwood community centre.

Summary of all the above Recommendations:

There is a need to investigate and research the above recommendations. For this type of paid and free services with the Pacific Islanders across Canterbury (Campsie) Granville Auburn, Parramatta) and beyond, we are concern with this issues and barriers facing our Pacific Islander’s future and well-being. Not being able to have access to a computer at home, There is a great need to have access to internet for children and parents’ assignments, banking, email, research, resumes, driving licenses, word processing and photocopies. not having access to your own private space to enjoy the privacy of a young person, not having your own time to yourself because of overcrowded surroundings and the list goes on. A dream comes true for those who desperately needed them. We are willing to help Auburn and Parramatta; they are in our list with the schools that we are working closely with. I am sure that the Mayor of Auburn will fully support this. We needed to collaborate this with our Canterbury Harmony group inc which is auspice by Riverwood Community Centre.

24hrs Parenting help line for Pacific Islanders: Experiencing the problems facing the Pacific Islanders community.

there is a need to have a line for emergency support. We urgently need 2 hour program on ABC TV.

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