The CMY Sector Capability Building Team supports organisations and professionals to enhance their engagement with multicultural youth and create more inclusive, equitable, and culturally responsive services. We deliver professional development training, tailored consultancy and develop resources to strengthen culturally responsive practices across services and systems.
Why choose CMY to support your practice?
Evidence-based: we have over 35 years of expertise in multicultural youth work and draw on good practice evidence.
Practical and interactive: we provide real-world tools, strategies, and case studies you can apply to your work.
Customisable: we offer tried and tested content and tools, or can develop bespoke solutions designed to meet your organisation’s specific needs.
Led by experts: our trainers bring specialist knowledge, sector experience, and lived perspectives.
Standard Training
We offer standard training sessions (online or in-person) called Culturally Responsive Youth Practice Training and Young People and Settlement. These sessions are open to individuals or workplace teams and aim to support your work with young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds.
Tailored training and consultancy to strengthen your work with multicultural young people and communities. From one-off workshops to ongoing strategic support, we can help to refine policies, enhance service delivery, and build inclusive practices.
Do you have a specific area of work that intersects with multicultural youth? We offer youth-informed training and collaborate on projects that are tailored to meet specific needs within the sector, such as family violence and Out of Home Care.
Chelsea King is the Senior Practitioner of Sector Capability Building at the Centre for Multicultural Youth. She leads a team dedicated to professional development and capability building, focused on supporting culturally responsive practice with multicultural young people and communities. Chelsea holds an Advanced Bachelor Degree in Global Political Economy and is currently completing a Master in Social Policy at University of Melbourne. She has worked in the non-profit sector in Canada and Australia for over a decade. Her roles have been dedicated to capacity building, youth advocacy and programing, community development and gender equity. She brings her lived experience as a multicultural woman and passion for diversity and inclusion to her role as a facilitator.
Ashlea Henley
Ashlea Henley
Ashlea Henley (she/her) holds a Master of Global Studies (with minors in Crisis and Development) from RMIT University and a Bachelor of Criminology and Justice from Navitas College of Public Safety. In January 2023, Ashlea joined CMY as a Sector Development Officer, bringing her over eight years of experience in the non-profit sector. Her diverse background spans law, disability, refugee advocacy, and higher education. With a commitment to creating better systems and services for young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds, Ashlea aspires to contribute to a culturally responsive sector. Her approach involves developing and delivering training, creating resources, and engaging with networks in the broader community.
Ilily Aba-Omer
Ilily Aba-Omer
Ilily is an Oromo woman based in Narrm/Melbourne and works at CMY as a Sector Capacity Building Officer. In this role, she facilitates training, co-designs resources, and supports organisations and practitioners to strengthen their practice with multicultural young people through a community development lens. Ilily brings years of experience in community engagement, facilitation, and arts-based practice across the not-for-profit and local government sectors, including roles with the City of Melbourne, Hume City Council, and inTouch Multicultural Centre Against Family Violence. Ilily holds a Bachelor’s of Arts, with a focus in Sociology and Anthropology
Farah Khairat
Farah Khairat
Farah (she/her) is a Sector Capability Building Officer whose work is informed by her role across CMY’s Education Team – supporting schools to empower refugee students and families and delivering anti-racism training. Previously a secondary school teacher, Farah holds a Bachelor of Arts specialising in Politics & International Studies, Diploma in Languages (Arabic Studies), and a Master of Teaching. Having grown up across Australia, Southwest Asia and North Africa and experienced diverse cultures, she brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her practice. Farah’s passion lies in anti-racism, justice, human rights, and gender equality; she believes that education, community, and relationship-building are pivotal to creating inclusive and equitable systems.
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If you’d like to speak with our team about training for you or your organisation, consultancy services, or not sure which training option is right, we’d love to hear from you. Please complete the form below and a member of CMY’s Training Team will be in touch.