Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS)
Future research / gaps identified:
Evaluate long-term effects of the program.
Integration timeline: mean of 1.19 months since arrival in Canada
Key findings:
1) Positive changes, particularly for those who participated frequently, included impro...
Community organizations: Multicultural Health Brokers (MCHB)
Future research / gaps identified: n/a
Key populations: Syrian refugee families who now live in Edmonton, AB
Open access: No
Integration timeline: not defined
Key findings:
The Syrian refugee families have been living through various forms of tran...
Open access: No
Location: Calgary, AB
Community organizations: n/a
Integration timeline: not defined
Key populations: Yazidi refugees 17 years old or younger, with a sex-matched control group of non-Yazidi pediatric refugees from Iraq or Syria
Future research / gaps identified: Results are not generalizable a...
Key recommendations:
The results also indicate that programs such as IPLAY can have important and positive impacts on youth participants, and how future programming may be able to adapt to further support the growing demographic of newcomer youth.
Location: Calgary, AB
Community organizations:
1) WinSport
2) CCIS...
Community organizations:
Calgary Board of Education (CBE)
Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth (CBFY)
Future research / gaps identified:
Implement and expand the research findings from this study into participatory-action research to examine lived experiences; and policy recommendations and changes.
Integratio...
Community organizations: N/A
Future research / gaps identified:
Study encompasses the stories of 2 families and cannot be generalized.
Integration timeline: Not defined
Key populations: 2 Syrian refugee families with children with disabilities
Key findings:
Resonating narrative threads that emerged from the st...
Community organizations: n/a
Integration timeline: had been in Canada for 3 – 5 years
Key findings:
1) Resilience was defined by refugee youth as consisting of doing well and feeling well as they resettled in Canada.
2) Positive adaptation to Canadian society was grounded in negotiating belonging, which consisted o...
Community organizations: Calgary Board of Education (CBE)
Future research / gaps identified: n/a
Key findings:
It is importance to adopt a trauma-informed teaching practice in supporting refugee children who have experienced the traumas of war, emphasizing the infectious hope and resilience brought by these child...
