WARWICK families are preparing to open their homes and hearts to refugees and asylum seekers as part of an innovative 'homestay' project that will give some of the country's most vulnerable a place to escape for the weekend.

Southern Downs Refugee and Migrant Network have partnered with the Romero Centre in Brisbane to deliver the program, which will enable refugees and asylum seekers from the Brisbane community to bunk in with a Warwick family for the weekend.

Homestays organiser Emma Yates said the project was a way of saying 'welcome' to asylum seekers and refugees.

"Part of the significance is the message that there are ordinary Australians out there who care about you,” Mrs Yates said.

"There is a lot of negativity in the media and government, so opening up you home for the weekend and offering for them to stay as a guest, I think that is quite significant.”

Families and individuals from the Warwick community met with Romero Centre manager Beata Ostapiej-Piatkowski on Saturday to discuss the logistics of delivering such a program.

Transportation, cultural differences and visa issues were among some of the challenges to overcome, but everyone agreed Warwick had something to offer.

"Housing is one of the biggest issues facing refugees and asylum seekers in Australia, and many do not have the opportunity to get relief from their living situation,” Ms Ostapiej-Piatkowski said.

Many refugees and asylum seekers live in crowded, stressful and uncertain living situations, and Mrs Yates said coming to Warwick for the weekend might provide some peace and respite.

For those who have relocated from a regional area in their home country, a small town like Warwick may even feel a little more like home.

But it could also bring benefits to the Warwick community.

"There is so much misconception and fear about people who look different, but just meeting people and spending time with them face-to-face we often find we actually have a lot of things in common,” Mrs Yates said.

Amid a hostile political environment, Mrs Yates said it felt good to be taking positive practical action.

"It feels really good to be doing something because there is so much about our country's treatment of refugees and asylums seekers that is so abhorrent to us.

"You can try all these things and feel like your getting nowhere... this something practical and concrete we can do that also sends a message of 'I don't agree with this treatment and these policies',” she said.

"I guess it's an act of solidarity in that way.”

SDRAMN members also discussed the possibility of sponsoring a Brisbane-based refugee family to help them afford accommodation.