The SettlementAtWork.Org website has professional development resources and news for front-line workers, program staff, managers and administrative staff. The goal of this site is to help workers prepare to best serve their newcomer clients, and to help organizations support their staff.
Benefits to partnership
You will gain the following benefits by providing content for our site.
- Increased exposure and usage of your materials, helping you to fulfill your own outreach, service and community development goals.
- We can give you statistics about the number of times your content has been viewed, as agreed upon by both parties. This can be particularly useful for partners that have limited contact with the settlement sector or need to quantify results for funders.
- You can use our content/material on your website! We're not only looking for your content, but we're happy to share ours with you. See our Terms & Conditions page for more information.
- Organizations will also gain reputation and credibility as being supportive of the settlement services sector.
Criteria
This page outlines the criteria used internally to determine whether a content partnership request and link request will be granted.
Information is:
- In keeping with the OCASI and SettlementAtWork mission and principles.
- Accurate.
- Complete.
- Relevant to the needs of settlement workers and newcomers.
- Written for settlement workers.
- Written in plain and clear language.
- Does not promote the services or wares of a particular for-profit company (i.e., advertising, commercial in nature).
- Explanatory rather than advocative.
- Not time-sensitive (ideal).
- Written for people living in Ontario (required) and applicable province-wide (ideal).
Your Responsibilities
- Partners provide SettlementAtWork with accurate information regarding author attribution and publication information.
- Partners provide the resources deemed valuable for settlement workers.
- Partners adhere to our Terms & Conditions.
- Partners inform us within a reasonable amount of time, if they have updated their material and/or links.
- Partners are also willing to share statistics as it relates to their program initiatives.
- We will edit and rewrite where needed the partner content to adhere to our style guidelines and standard article format (e.g., length, word choice, stylistic elements, formatting).
Our Responsibilities
- We will provide proper and accurate information regarding author attribution and publication information as follows:
- Name of the authoring organization or individual
- Logo and link
- Brief org description (decided on a case-by-case basis)
- We will direct inquiries about partner materials to partners directly.
- We will update our material and/or links when partners inform us that an update has been made.
- Within reason, we will provide statistics on the number of views and/or downloads of the information.
- Placement of content on SettlementAtWork.org is ultimately determined by us.
Types of Content Partnerships
- Information:
Documents that are beneficial to settlement workers. This is usually news or updates regarding current development of laws and regulations regarding newcomers. - Research:
Reports that help understand different topics related to the immigration and refugee system in Ontario and Canada. This can be a study, a survey and other related materials. - Guide:
These documents involve how-to, guidebooks, tutorial materials on services, structural methods, educational guides and organizational development methods. - Events:
All events, online and in person, that could benefit settlement workers (educational, training, networking opportunities, webinars, etc.) - RFPs:
Organizations that are looking for a hand in a specific project can reach out to Settlement At Work with a request for proposal and we will share it with the sector. - Funding:
Any funding opportunity for settlement workers and their organizations for their projects. - Development Material:
This englobes all the documents, events, courses, guides, studies that are made to further the development of newcomer serving organizations.