The Hills Holroyd Parramatta MRC provides an information and referral service by specialised staff, to give you information and help when you arrive in Australia.

If you are from a non-English speaking country, you can be assisted in your own language.  The MRC uses specially trained workers to assist you.  Migrants and refugees are helped to make greater use of local community and government organisations to solve their immediate settlement needs.

The MRC liaises with other ethnic community groups to provide an ethno-specific service to a specific community.  These workers provide casework, group work and conduct information sessions to clients in their own language.

Following ethno-specific workers are available at MRC:

Arabic Assyrian Bosnian  Burmese  Cantonese/Mandarin Croatian Dari/Farsi

Dinka Hindi   Karen Kikamba Korean  Kurdish Madi

Romanian Serbian Somali Spanish Swahili Turkish

To use the MRC's settlement services all you need to do is ring the MRC on (02) 9687 9901 and make an appointment to see someone who speaks your language or if we don't have a caseworker who speaks your language our staff will use an interpreter.  Alternatively, if you are still in your country of origin, send an e-mail to the MRC or write to us on the address:

                                     PO Box 1081
                                     Parramatta NSW 2124

General services provided by the MRC are:

• Bilingual settlement casework service
• Information on basic services
• Advice on settlement problems
• Referral to government and other services in the local government area
• Use of conference rooms/sessional offices for community groups
• Regular English language classes
• Regular First Aid courses organised in partnership with Granville TAFE
• Migration agents/solicitors give advice regarding immigration matters.  By appointment only.
• Legal advice given by legal advisors/solicitors.  By appointment only. 
• Tax help for people on low income (sessional) between July - October.
• Open access / Job Club program for newly arrived migrants.  Free use of MRC facilities such as
   computers, phone, photocopier and fax when looking for work.
• Access to information sessions on a variety of settlement issues such as health, education, 
    immigration, housing and social security.