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Future research / gaps identified: Explore how success and agency are defined similarly/differently in other newcomer groups, and how success and agency interact with each other in different cultural contexts. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) All of the participants attributed their agency as the...
Key findings: Services are provided in 4 main categories: 1) Settlement services (e.g. citizenship application, family sponsorship support, case management, settlement workers in schools, rainbow refuge). 2) Employment services (e.g. Newcomers Essential Skills Training [NEST] Program, Culinary Skills Training Program...
Community organizations: n/a Key recommendations: Expand the gardening space and create new community gardens for more newcomers. Alter policies that allocate most of the produce to the food bank, such that the newcomer gardeners themselves can take home more of their harvest. Provide formal recognition for vol...
Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: TESOL instructors working in LINC programs in Alberta Location: Alberta broadly (not otherwise defined) Open access: No Community organizations: n/a Key findings: 1) Professional development should be ongoing and conte...
Community organizations Philippine Overseas and Employment Administration (POEA) Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) Gaps identified NA Key recommendations Developing more gender-neutral pre-arrival services to provide a better integrative approach for inclusion in Canada, where both males and females are given...
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: Ideas under consideration to include in the Year 3 report included the private sponsorship system, migrants with precarious status and building upon policy implications and actions from Year 1 and Year 2 reports. Integration timeline: not defined Location: Edmonton, AB Community...
Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: Less than 10 years since arrival Key recommendations: To facilitate health social connections for newcomers, policies, organizations, private companies and individual neighbourhoods should work together to forge a sense of familiarity and reduce feelings of margina...
Future research / gaps identified: Key populations: LGBTQ+ newcomers in Edmonton Key recommendations: n/a Community organizations: Edmonton Newcomer Centre Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) The Edmonton Newcomer Centre’s Rainbow Refuge program provides settlement, housing, mental health and c...
Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: Key populations: newcomers who now live in Edmonton, AB Community organizations: Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN) Key recommendations: Expand services to meet the changing needs of newcomers and refugee...