AOTEAROA REFUGEE AND MIGRANT SUPPORT SERVICES (ARMSS)
Aotearoa Refugee and Migrant Support Services ARMSS is a social enterprise dedicated to providing different types of support for the CALD Community members (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) community members as well as agencies working with the CALD community to help them better integrate in their new home, New Zealand.
Our philosophy
We believe that in order to achieve equality in the outcome we should apply equity to the process and not the other way around. People are different, come from different cultural, religious, economic and educational backgrounds and therefore their needs and challenges are also different.
One size fit all support models cannot be effective and efficient when working with very diverse people like our CALD Community members.
Vision
CALD Community members contributing to New Zealand’s economy and society at a high level, best utilizing their skills, qualifications, and expertise, economically developed and independent and socially integrated into their new home, Aotearoa.
Mission Statement
Introduce our philosophy to the community, advocate it with government policymakers and apply it to our programs. Help CALD Community help themselves achieve better economic, mental, and emotional wellbeing and social integration by empowering them and enabling them to overcome cultural, social, emotional, cognitive, economic, and practical barriers, obstacles, and challenges they face in their resettlement journey.
Goals and Objectives
Our main goal is to achieve a more coherent New Zealand, empower CALD community members and enable them to achieve better social integration and wellbeing.
Long Term Organizational Goals
- Become New Zealand leading organization in developing and delivering wide range of programs supporting the migrant and refugee. Programs that meet the growing and changing needs and challenges of the CALD community.
- Become New Zealand leading organization in researching and advocating for the CALD community.
- Make our website an information hub for the CALD community members on the available support, agencies, programs, organizations and community groups from all around New Zealand.
Long Term Social Integration Goals
- Becomes New Zealand leading organization in delivering cultural competency training to different sectors; education, legal, police and correction, health, social service, financial
- Become New Zealand leading organization in delivering social, emotional and cultural resettlement supports to new kiwis