Pride Foundation Australia are proud to announce Multicultural Youth South Australia as the recipients of the first large grant round towards LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People Living in Australia for 2025. The youth-focused organisation has received $20,000 in grant funding towards their project “Rainbow Refuge: Expanding Access to Inclusive Mental Health Support”.
Multicultural Youth South Australia Incorporated (MYSA) is the South Australian state representative body for multicultural youth and young families. They are the only youth-specific multicultural organisation in South Australia, and one of two leading youth-specific multicultural organisations in Australia.
In 2023, MYSA received an initial $20,000 grant from PFA towards the purchase and installation of a telehealth system that would enable MYSA’s team of social workers, psychologists and peer workers to connect with refugee, asylum seeker, and migrant LGBTQIA+ youth in rural South Australia.
This second grant towards their Rainbow Refuge project will expand MYSA’s successful telehealth mental health support service for LGBTIQ+ refugee and asylum seeker youth. Building on the 2023 pilot that supported 75 regional young people, this next phase will extend the program to metro Adelaide, where demand is growing among young people facing stigma, trauma, and social isolation. The project will provide safe, culturally responsive mental health care, led by young people with lived experience through MYSA’s Refugee Rainbow Revolution committee.
