Armia Healing the Incurables Pty LTD

ARMIA is a community organisation that was created on 26 January 2015 following repeated community requests by New Australians (those refugees and migrants who no longer are part of the Australian Government s settlement program). We began carefully structured programs aimed at breaking down the barriers of social isolation, cultural integration and employment within New Australian communities. As a Multicultural Family Support Hub in SE Brisbane, we initially supported New Australians to be part of the workforce or business community, take their place as healthy, proud and productive members of Australian society. ARMIA has infrastructure such as a fully funded property, office equipment, training rooms, tens of highly qualified and experienced multiculturallycompetent workers and volunteers, community support and community agency stakeholder relationships. We work with individuals who don't integrate, even with the 5year Australian government assistance program, which often leads to social isolation. They find it difficult to undertake the simplest of tasks that most Australians take for granted. Education, jobs, cultural differences, mental health, aged care, physical health, social interaction, all become barriers and can lead to extreme isolation, restricted work opportunities, welfare dependence and exposure to radicalism and fundamentalism. ARMIA aims to shift fit and skilled individuals from welfare dependency, empowering them to (re)join the workforce and/or entrepreneurship. From 2018, ARMIA assist any least advantaged mainstream and indigenous people, also a way to sustainably promote interactive and participative integration. From 2019, ARMIA assist people with disability NDIS and Seniors to live a normal life with their families. ARMIA works around 3 Central Pillars: Affordable Housing Community Empowerment Employment & Entrepreneurship Within this framework, it utilises 5 interconnected programs each with multiple activities. These group activities serve as vehicles to enable secondary group therapy and capacity building. The programs are: Education Business Initiatives Health and Wellbeing Community Engagement and Life Skills & Vocational Training For 10 years, with no or little external funding ARMIA has removed thousands of fit men & women from endless welfare dependency, supported hundreds of families who were disintegrating due to mental health and domestic violence, hundreds of school and university students who were struggling with studies, hundreds of youths who could have gone into crime or prostitution or fundamentalism, et cetera.