 For young humanitarian entrants arriving in Townsville, cultural differences and limited English skills can make it difficult to feel accepted in the far north Queensland city. The Townsville Intercultural Centre is conducting research investigating the causes of depression, panic attacks and anxiety in young people. When the kids arrive here, they're really long to have friendship and socialisation with the peer group as well as within the school community. It's a hard time sometimes but we've already been in a lot of bad time already. The study hopes to determine the connection between these symptoms and the pressures of transitioning to a new country. The centre runs a range of programmes, several of which are funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship to help new arrivals settle in the city. We try to create an environment where they learn the skills of making connection over the cultural barriers, religious barriers as well as language barriers. For Richard, fighting his feet was easy. Everybody was friendly, meet someone straight, ask him your name, where you're from, you tell them where you come from, start making friends from there. Many of Australia's humanitarian entrants arrive when they're in their teens or early 20s. For example, in the Sudanese community, 62% of all arrivals were under 24. Programmes offered by the Townsville Intercultural Centre give young people a kickstart previously unbeknown to them before their arrival in Australia. I'll go spider by engineering and do maybe building slide and if I go my qualification, I can go back home and be able to school for other kids that I used to be like them. To open up their eyes to the new culture, new country, understand it, appreciate it, be who they are, be proud of their culture. They are the treasures for the future because they're adaptable, they're flexible, they're optimist, they're ready to learn the new way of life in a new country.