Workers with bilingual/bicultural skills bring many benefits to an organisation as a direct consequence of their language skills and cultural knowledge.

They aid communication and facilitate cross-cultural understanding, help break down barriers and engender trust and make people feel welcome.

In addition, they may;

- Be well connected in their communities (workers with bilingual/bicultural skills can be a wealth of knowledge and information about their communities and are often well placed to support an
organisation to engage and network.)

-Increase access by people from CALD with disability from the same background (workers who are trusted by communities can provide pathways for people to access services).

- Help build long-term relationships with communities. (They have a greater understanding of issues within communities, and how to navigate these sensitively).

- Bring different perspectives and creative ideas to solving problems

- Support other workers to better understand cultural differences when working with a person from CALD with disability

´ Expand the diversity of the workplace.

The following voluntary survey is designed to assist us to get the most out of our bilingual/bicultural workforce.

This information may be used for the basis of developing a language/skills cultural knowledge register.