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Access in Action Toolkit
This toolkit has information and resources that speak to the specific struggles and needs of im/migrants and refugees with disabilities and d/Deaf newcomers.Last updated Apr 2, 2025
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Research/Dataset
Mental Health Promotion in Immigrant and Refugee Serving Organizations. Knowledge Exchange Report 2023
Mental Health Promotion in Immigrant and Refugee Serving Organizations. Knowledge Exchange Report. February 8th, 2023Last updated Apr 2, 2025
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Gender-based Violence Against Racialized Migrant Women, Girls, and Gender-Diverse People with Disabilities & D/deaf People
This National Toolkit is for im/migrant and refugee-serving sector staff and volunteers across Canada working with racialized im/migrant and refugee women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities and D/deaf people.Last updated Apr 2, 2025
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Guide to the DTC & RDSP for Newcomers with Disabilities
This toolkit is designed to help frontline workers in settlement agencies and advocates introduce newcomers with disabilities to both the Disability Tax Credit and Registered Disability Saving Plan, explain the benefits of these programs, the eligibility criteria, and to guideLast updated Apr 2, 2025
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Free Budgeting App for Newcomers
The Butterfly Budget App for Newcomers is a free, easy-to-use personal finance planning tool designed to help newcomers track their expenses when moving to Canada.
Butterfly was created by newcomers. It allows users to convert their budget into their home currency and is offered
Last updated Mar 20, 2025
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Course/Training
Connecting to Careers in Agricultural Technology within Vertical Farming
Connecting to Careers in Agricultural Technology within Vertical Farming is an upskilling program funded by Upskill Canada (powered by Palette Skills) and the Government of Canada. Vertical farming involves various techniques for growing crops in a controlled environment. In
Last updated Mar 18, 2025
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Course/Training
Understanding and Challenging Anti-Black Racism
This 4-module course aims to assist people working in the immigrant and refugee-serving sector understand how systems operate and how they create and manifest racism and anti-Black racism.Last updated Mar 4, 2025
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Mental Health Supports for Frontline Workers
This handout by AMSSA provides essential information and resources to help frontline workers understand and address mental health challenges, such as burnout, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue, that arise from supporting newcomers in complex situations.Last updated Feb 24, 2025
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Understanding and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
This online self-directed course aims to help front-line practitioners working with immigrant and refugee communities to better understand issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and develop a supportive response for survivors with intersectional identities.Last updated Feb 20, 2025
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Best Practices/Practical Guide
Harnessing Social Media for Resettlement
This guide offers best practices for using social media to support newcomers. Learn how to leverage platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to share stories, raise awareness, and foster a strong sense of community around resettlement.Last updated Feb 13, 2025
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Canada launches new process to welcome skilled newcomers with work experience in priority jobs as permanent residents
May 31, 2023—Ottawa—With employers eagerly seeking to fill countless vacant positions across the country, immigration emerges as a vital piece to solving this puzzle. Recognizing this reality, the Government of Canada is building an immigration system that acts as a catalyst for…
Published May 31, 2023
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Nothing to come back to,' says Ukrainian woman in Canada, her beloved home destroyed
Laura Osman, The Canadian Press March 27, 2023
Oleksandra Verovkina and her son, Danylo, would stroll half a block through the back alley behind their apartment to a large forest. They would walk hand in hand beneath the tall trees, the air filled with the scent of pine resin…
Published March 31, 2023
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Responding to Intimate Partner Violence: Refugee Assistance Program Workers Relaunch
Refugee women sometimes experience intimate partner violence. Do you know how pre-migration and migration trauma can impact the safety of refugee women and their families? Do you know how to work collaboratively with violence against women experts in your community? Does your…
Published March 24, 2023
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Visitors can continue to apply for work permits inside Canada with temporary policy extended by 2 years
Ottawa, February 28, 2023—Foreign nationals who are in Canada as visitors and who receive a valid job offer will continue to be able to apply for and receive a work permit without having to leave the country. Visitors applying under this public policy who held a work permit…
Published March 9, 2023
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Government of Canada increases sponsorship opportunities for Sponsorship Agreement Holders
February 17, 2023—Ottawa—Canada continues to be a global leader in refugee resettlement and integration. Since the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) Program was launched over 4 decades ago, Canadians and permanent residents have come together to offer protection and a safe…
Published March 3, 2023
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One year after war, Ukrainian newcomers in Canada weigh future options
By Maan Alhmidi The Canadian Press Posted February 22, 2023
Yuliia Kleban remembers waking up to a message from her manager on Feb. 24, 2022, telling her Russia had started invading her country.
A few minutes later, Kleban heard air-raid sirens go off in Lviv, the Ukrainian city…
Published February 28, 2023
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Advocates say migrants must be welcomed by Quebec, not sent to other provinces
CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023
Migrants crossing from New York into Quebec at Roxham Road should not be seen as a burden, according to the executive director of a Montreal-based non-profit organization that offers support to refugee claimants.
"What if some of these asylum…
Published February 28, 2023
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Asylum seekers facing uncertainty as they navigate immigration process
Sarah Kester · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023
Nigeria and hopes to continue his studies to become a teacher. (Sarah Kester/CBC)
David Olorunleye has been in Canada since last August, living as a refugee in Cornwall, Ont.
Olorunleye said he left his home in Nigeria in March…
Published February 28, 2023
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A new face entirely': northern Ontario's growing Black community looks to the future during history month
Erik White · CBC News · Posted: Feb 21, 2023
February is Black history month, but with the Black population of northern Ontario growing rapidly in recent years, the present and the future deserve just as much attention.
More than 5,000 people in the region describe themselves as…
Published February 28, 2023
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Asylum seekers must be 'priority' discussion for Trudeau and Biden: Legault
By Jacob Serebrin | February 21st 2023 National Observer
MONTREAL — Quebec's premier is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to make the flow of migrants across an irregular border crossing in southern Quebec a priority during a meeting next month with U.S. President Joe Biden.
I…
Published February 28, 2023