News & Events
Advance Diversity Services partners with Queer Screen to bring tender coming-of-age tale to community
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) has partnered with Queer Screen to offer a subsidised community screening of a tender coming-of-age tale at a local cinema next month. The Australian premiere of The First Girl I Loved (喜歡妳是妳) is screening (subsidised offering at $10)...
Advance Diversity Services celebrates 40 years of service
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) celebrated its 40th anniversary with speeches, awards, Nepalese dancing and branded cupcakes at its AGM held in its Hurstville office on December 9. Mark Coure MP, Member for Oatley, spoke about ADS’s outstanding work in the community...
Art sessions create safe spaces for older CALD LGBTQI people
A five-week online art group offered by Advance Diversity Services has given ten older CALD LGBTQI people the chance to express themselves creatively and find friendship and support. ‘Research shows that older LGBTQI people from CALD backgrounds face discrimination,...
ADS collaborates to save lives this summer
Advance Diversity Services collaborated to bring Water Safety Week online this November-December to help save lives this summer. ‘Life saving organisations say there has been a 20 per cent spike in drowning deaths around Australia in the past year, with the impact of...
ADS workshops support teamwork parenting
Arabic and Bangladeshi parents and parents-to-be are finding support and encouragement thanks to a free parenting program run by Advance Diversity Services in partnership with South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD). Becoming Us, created by Australian...
EnCOMPASS Connectors link CALD seniors to aged care support
Advance Diversity Services (ADS) has appointed two bilingual workers to support older people of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds to access My Aged Care and improve their wellbeing and independence. As a local partner of EnCOMPASS Multicultural...