Resources and Publications

On this page you can find:

Refugee Transitions our regular magazine covering national and international issues affecting refugees and asylum seekers and those that work or volunteer with them.

Brochures for clients in other languages including information about STARTTS services, sleeping better, panic attacks, anxiety and depression.

Research papers by STARTTS staff and our research partners on topics ranging from social work with refugee torture and trauma survivors to the effects of detention on asylum seekers.

Community resources and reports including information about the Sierra Leone, Somali, Vietnamese and Mandaean communities.

PsycheVisual a collection of online lectures by STARTTS staff and others with pyschology and social work like backgrounds. The PsychVisual website is maintained by an outside organisation.

Policy submissions

STARTTS brochure  

Hints for Healing E-Zine Our monthly electronic magazine for student welfare personnel, it includes information, resources and case studies to assist teachers and school counsellors to meet the needs of refugee students.

Jungle Tracks a series of five metaphorical stories that help children, young people and their parents explore and process emotional issues related to their experiences.

Training kits including Settling In and Families in Cultural Transitions.

Relaxtion tapes and CDs which include a variety of relaxtion exercies in Arabic, Bosnian, Dari, Khmer, Serbian, Tamil and Vietnamese. 

Links to other useful sites.