Welcome to the Australian Football League Multicultural Program
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Australian Football League (AFL) in conjunction with the Department for Planning and Community Development have developed an innovative program to introduce culturally and linguistically diverse young people, their families and communities to Australian Rules Football.
The Welcome to the AFL Multicultural Program aims to:
- introduce young people and their families from targeted culturally and linguistically diverse communities, particularly newly-arrived communities, to Australian Football as part of their settlement in Victoria and their integration into the Australian community life.
- develop and implement a program of activities, based on Australian football, that will build sustainable community capacity in these communities, in partnership with other relevant local agencies such as schools and police.
- influence mainstream Australian football clubs to embrace multicultural diversity as part of their ongoing operations.
Three Multicultural Development Officers have been appointed by the AFL to work with Football Victoria and the Collingwood, Hawthorn and Western Bulldogs AFL Clubs to implement the program in clubs and schools, in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
For further information on the Welcome to the AFL Multicultural Program please
contact the AFL.For further information about sport and recreation opportunities for Victorians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including some translated resources, please contact us.
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