Community organizations:
1) ASSIST Community Services Centre
2) Action for Healthy Community (AHC)
Future research / gaps identified: Continue following the organizations post-evaluation to determine how the organizations and/or the larger landscape of settlement services have/have not changed
Integration timeline:...
Key populations: Syrian refugees who now live in Edmonton, AB
Key recommendations: Assess current interventions that target the needs identified in this study, and create new initiatives to better respond to these needs.
Community organizations: Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative
Future research / gaps iden...
Key findings:
1) Canadian multiculturalism was critiqued as unresponsive to the needs and interests of Black African immigrant students and not supportive of their identity reclamation.
2) African Indigenous knowledge is a significant part of the identity of Black African immigrant students and the acknowledgment and v...
Integration timeline: not defined
Key populations: South Asian immigrant youth (SAIY) ages 14-24 in Edmonton, AB
Key recommendations:
Develop, implement and evaluate interventions to address the challenges and barriers SAIY identified in this study.
Community organizations: n/a
Future research / gaps identified...
Future research / gaps identified:
Social desirability bias may have affected what participants said in the focus groups.
Integration timeline: less than 5 years since arrival in Canada
Key findings:
5 major barriers for newcomer parents accessing routine-childhood vaccinations (RCVs) for their children: lack of...
Key populations: newcomers to Edmonton
Location: Edmonton, AB
Community organizations: Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN)
Future research / gaps identified: n/a
Integration timeline: not defined
Key findings:
1) EMCN offers a wide range of services, including therapeutic and counseling services, c...
Community organizations: n/a
Integration timeline: not defined
Key populations: South Asians in Edmonton
Key recommendations:
Engage with ethnocultural communities when building lasting information-sharing partnerships
Develop frameworks that can assist researchers in developing and documenting partnerships w...
Future research / gaps identified: n/a
Key findings:
Motivations to be an international student at UofA were:
To seek more permanent immigration to Alberta
Already has some family in Edmonton
Cheaper tuition than other provinces/countries
Obtained a UofA entrance scholarship
Key populations: international...
Key findings:
1) 10/38 of the included organizations provided translation and interpretation services.
2) Overall, 46 languages have translation and interpretation services in Edmonton.
3) The most commonly translated documents were legal, licenses, medical and education.
4) Although organizations would like to requi...
Community organizations: n/a
Key findings:
Intersections between racialized counsellors’ own identities and those of their clients led to:
Increased attachment to and connection with their own ethnic group, heritage, and history
Increased appreciation of their ethnic identity and its role in their lives and funct...