Productive Responses to Diverse Parenting

Welcoming families from diverse cultural backgrounds requires understanding, respect and collaborative support for differing parenting practices, creating opportunities for connection and growth within the community.

Partnerships with local universities provide volunteers who help create educational booklets on parenting topics, including sleep, gender equity, water safety, discipline and dental hygiene.
These resources are available in accessible languages (e.g., English, Arabic, Pashto, Swahili), and used in private, supportive settings.
Interpreters and culturally matched staff help bridge language gaps and connect parents to school life.
Onsite English classes allow parents to stay close to their children and remain engaged.
Cultural differences in discipline and daily routines are discussed openly, with workshops and support as needed
Parents and children learn from each other, turning diversity into opportunities to enrich and strengthen community bonds

Previous Reports

Hub Census 2025 – Key findings

The Hub Census 2025 highlights the significant role community hubs play in building belonging, strengthening early learning, and supporting pathways to participation and employment.

2025 in Review

This report highlights key outcomes, participation and impact from across the national community hubs network in 2025, reflecting progress at a national level and the ongoing support hubs provide to families through schools and local communities.

Mid-Year Update 2025

At the six-month mark of 2025, we look back on some of the stories of impact from our hubs network. The first half of 2025 has brought encouraging momentum – from sustaining a strong national footprint of 98 hubs to continuing the vital support hubs provide to families throughout the school year.

Independent evaluation: Deloitte Access Economics

The National Community Hubs Program (NCHP) was established in 2013 to engage newly arrived communities at risk of limited access to education, health and social services, and opportunities for economic independence.

Scanlon Foundation Research Institute Narrative 10 – Community in the Classroom

The purpose of this, our 10th Narrative, is to highlight the success of the work of Community Hubs Australia in primary schools and to consider whether the premise behind them could be applied in a secondary school context.

Knowledge Translation to Support Early Learning of Refugee Children and their Families

The research presented in this report is based on a three-year study that focussed on developing understandings and resources to support current and future community hubs and centres with the settlement and early learning of refugee children and their families.