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Integration timeline: not defined Open access: Yes Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association (CIWA) Key populations: refugee mothers in the Multicultural Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) program in Calgary Key findings: 1) Mothers em...
Community organizations: CUPS (Calgary Urban Project Society) Future research / gaps identified: Continue research on using behavioral neuroscience frameworks and reciprocal parent-child interactions to facilitate children’s learning. Key findings: 1) For all children, PPVT-III scores increased the most betwe...
Future research / gaps identified: not stated Key findings: 1) Football (soccer) as a common habitus between home and Canada. 2) Gender norms, roles and gendered football experiences while playing on a co-ed team in Edmonton. 3) Football league’s intentions of having a minimum amount of female players on the fi...
Key findings: 1) The overarching theme of the interviews was “The necessity of finding ways to survive in the face of intersecting challenges.” 2) The subtheme “struggles in Canada” discussed structural barriers to economic success, compounded discrimination across intersectional identities, and the b...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Perspectives of service providers were explored, and not those of the young men they were serving. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) Our first theme, a sense of self in relation to systems, included connections between mental wellbei...
Community organizations: Centre for Newcomers Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: LGBTQ2S+ newcomers Key recommendations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Key findings: Existing settlement and integration services largely do not meet the needs of LGBTQ2S+ newcomers to Calgary, especial...
Future research / gaps identified: Integration timeline: not defined Key population: African immigrant women who are survivors of intimate partner violence Community organizations: n/a Key findings: Key recommendations: Location: Edmonton, AB Open access: Yes
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline Newcomers (not defined) Key populations Somali immigrant mothers in Edmonton or Calgary Location Edmonton Calgary Alberta Open access – No Future research/gaps identified This research only included Muslim Somali mothers in Alberta...
Community organizations: n/a Future research/gaps identified The mental health of Filipino immigrant men in Canada is largely understudied as a whole Key recommendations: Increase the understanding of service providers on Filipino (mis)understandings of mental health and mental illness Develop anti-stigma i...
Open access: Yes Locations: Edmonton and Calgary Key populations: African refugee parents who now live in Alberta Community organizations: n/a Key recommendations: 1) Account for differences in marital status of parents in childcare policy changes affecting African refugees, as parenting experiences of particip...
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