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Ricci Bartels

Deputy Chair
Manager, Fairfield MRC

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Email:rbartels@fmrc.net
Phone: 0421 632 111

Declaration of Interests

About Ricci Bartels

Ricci  has an Associate Diploma in Social Welfare. She has a particular interest in improving access for refugees and immigrants to settlement and mainstream services. Over the past 30 years Ricci  has worked with refugee and migrant communities in Fairfield, Liverpool and Blacktown. Over this period she has worked as a case worker, a community development practitioner, TAFE teacher (Community Welfare), and service manager.

Currently the Deputy Chair of the Settlement Council of Australia, Ricci  serves on a number of boards and professional bodies including: Sydney Grow employment Council, families NSW Project Management Group, Department of Community Services ethnic Advisory Group, Settlement Services International and Refugee Australia foundation.

Ricci has written numerous seminar/ conference papers on Housing, employment, and Access and equity. Most recently she published a paper called “A Reflection of Thirty Years in the field” in the publication, Voices from the Coalface: Practitioner Perspectives on the Challenges of Community-based Work. John R. Owen and freidoon Khavarpour (eds).