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Diverse communities

Cultural, racial and linguistically diverse communities

Participating in sport is valuable and meaningful for everyone and can have broader impact for Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities.

Sport can be a place where negative social stereotypes and barriers can be broken down and replaced with positive ones, leading to broader social harmony.

Sport can also help newly arrived migrants navigate the challenges of life in a new country, such as learning the language and building social relationships.

To promote more inclusive sport practices in our community, the Australian Sports Commission have developed a Multicultural Engagement Playbook, in collaboration with The LOTE Agency, to help enhance the active involvement and representation of multicultural communities in the sport sector and create a more inclusive, equitable, and diverse environment.

The playbook is separated into three key sections available for download.

The Multicultural Engagement Playbook is designed to help sports organisations better understand and meet the goal of increasing overall participation and engagement in sport. It is important to understand the Why and the What before you launch into the How. As a guide

Ready (The Why)

This is the current state. Use these slides to help build a case for the importance of this work with your key internal and external stakeholders. The statistics within this presentation are hard to ignore if organisations want to future proof their sport.

The ASC Multicultural Engagement Playbook - Changing Face Of Australia

Set (The What)

These are the findings from our research. It’s important to understand the experience people from a diversity of backgrounds have had in sport in Australia and the reasons for those experiences. This can help inform your work and key actions you want to adopt.

Check out the report for more details on the research process and findings Research Insights Report with Appendix.

ASC Multicultural Engagement Playbook - Research Findings

Go (The How)

The action plan adopts a flexible approach. You may wish to pursue one action at a time or address those actions most pertinent at the current time to create change. There are no specific timelines for working through each action and not all actions may be relevant to your sport or area of the business. The pace at which you work through it will depend on the size of your sports organisation, level of commitment, time and resources you are willing to commit.  However, the sooner you implement GO, the sooner you will see results.

ASC Multicultural Engagement Playbook - Action Plan

Case Studies

Creating Inclusive Clubs for CALD Communities

Inclusive Coaching Practices

Women and Girls in Sport

The experience of people from refugee backgrounds

Strategies

Resources

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