Newcomer youth are a growing presence in Canada but more so in Ontario. As this young population leads the way for a “new” Canada, it is important for service providers, researchers, teachers, and social policymakers to investigate the multiple challenges and barriers that newcomer youth face as they navigate through their adjustment and settlement processes.
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Preventing & Responding to Sexual Violence – Centering Children’s Power & Agency
Preventing and responding to sexual violence with children and youth requires informed, child-centered approaches that prioritize children’s power and agency.
The Learning Network and Knowledge Hub are pleased to share a new bilingual Brief, Preventing and Responding to Sexual
Last updated Mar 6, 2026
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Research/Dataset
Modelling the Impact of Immigration on Student Numbers
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A framework for projecting immigrant student enrolment across Canada’s elementary, secondary, and postsecondary systems
This report presents a modelling framework to estimate how changes in immigration—covering permanent residents (PRs) and non‑permanent residents (NPRs)
Last updated Feb 18, 2026
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Sex Information & Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)
The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) is a registered not-for-profit charitable organization that was formed in 1964. SIECCAN works with educators, health professionals, community organizations, governments, and other partners to promote the sexual and
Last updated Jan 26, 2026
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Reclaiming authentic collaboration: What we achieve when lived experts share in the power
First voice is a term coined by advocates in the community to reflect the value of lived expertise. It signifies the primacy of knowledge gained by experience. It’s not a substitute for academic or professional skill; it’s another dynamic of intellectual competence that can
Last updated Jan 15, 2026
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Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC)
OCASI is pleased to open registration for upcoming self-directed online training on:
Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC)
- Date: Dec 1, 2025 – March 30, 2026
- Location: Online at learnatwork.ca
- Registration deadline: Jan 15, 2026 (Self-Enrol and start learning)
About this Course
Last updated Dec 1, 2025
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ReadingDuck.com
Reading Duck is a free website with lots of English reading worksheets you can print right away-no sign-up needed. It's especially helpful for people who are new to English, including newcomers, immigrants, and those rebuilding their lives in a new country. The worksheets start
Last updated Aug 26, 2025
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Course/Training
Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC)
OCASI is pleased to open registration for the upcoming self-directed online training on: Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC)Last updated Jun 10, 2025
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Direct Cash Transfers as a Pathway Out of Homelessness
This resource is about the transformative potential of Direct Cash Transfers (DCTs) as a strategy to combat homelessness. It compiles a comprehensive collection of toolkits, research studies, case analyses, and multimedia materials that explore how providing unconditionalLast updated May 6, 2025
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"Journey To" Meetings - OCASI Youth Advisory Group
In 2023, NewYouth.ca, through OCASI's Youth Advisory Group, held three virtual meetings between newcomer youth and youth workers. In these meetings, newcomer youth discussed their journeys to community, education and employment, and services. Artist Nancy Baltazar illustrated
Last updated Apr 30, 2025
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Canadian Newcomer Youth: Illustrating The Journey
Through a creative workshop, 6 newcomer youth shared their journeys, challenges and successes in Ontario.
This documentary highlights the experiences of newcomer youth from Afghanistan, Iran, Brazil and the Philippines. Each of their stories is unique, but all have had to learn to
Last updated Apr 17, 2025
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Canada identifies international students as ‘ideal immigrants’ but supports are lacking
Published: November 9, 2022 The Conversation Isaac Garcia-Sitton
The number of international students in Canada has steadily increased over the last decade, contributing approximately $22 billion to the Canadian economy, and an estimated $5.1 billion in annual revenues to…
Published November 15, 2022
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Some Quebec colleges say Ottawa denies 80 to 90 per cent of study permits from Africa
Morgan Lowrie · CBC News · Posted: Nov 04, 2022
Some Quebec junior colleges say 80 to 90 per cent of the international students they've accepted from Africa are being refused study permits by the federal government, jeopardizing their ability to offer programs and raising…
Published November 4, 2022
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Newmarket program assists youth experiencing anti-Black racism
Newmarket Today Staff 17 October 2022
On Saturday, MPP Dawn Gallagher Murphy met with the team at the Newmarket African Caribbean Canadian Association (NACCA) to hear more about the impact that a six-month $49,600 Resilient Communities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium…
Published October 19, 2022
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International students enticed to Canada on dubious promises of jobs and immigration
Nazim Baksh, Lisa Ellenwood, Mark Kelley, Satbir Singh Aulakh · CBC News · Posted: Oct 13, 2022
Dilpreet Kaur's parents were worried it would be difficult for her to find a job in her home state of Punjab, India, where her father toils long, lonely hours as a rice and wheat…
Published October 13, 2022
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Cap on international students' working hours should be permanently lifted: advocates
Laura Osman | National Observer | October 12th 2022
A new pilot project to lift the cap on the number of hours international students can work should be made permanent, say advocates who have spent years asking for the change.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced last…
Published October 13, 2022
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Students say lifting cap on working hours doesn't fix bigger issues for international students
CBC News · Posted: Oct 08, 2022
Post-secondary students in Calgary say a one-year pilot project that will lift the cap on off-campus hours international students are allowed to work is good news.
But it's a short-term fix that does not address bigger problems, they said.
On Nov…
Published October 11, 2022
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Inflation hits international students hard, with some turning to food banks
Nono Shen The Canadian Press Oct. 2, 2022
Laughter lights up the gathering twilight at Langara College in Vancouver, where first-year health science student Jagiit Singh is chatting with friends next to the school's fountain.
But his smile fades when he's asked about the cost of…
Published October 5, 2022
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Hamilton, Six Nations organizations marking National Day of Truth and Reconciliation all week
Aura Carreño Rosas · CBC News · Posted: Sep 26, 2022
Friday marks the second National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a day honouring "the children who never returned home and Survivors of residential schools, as well as their families and communities."
The day was one of the…
Published September 29, 2022
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The future for tens of thousands of international students is in jeopardy. Here’s why
Janet Hurley The Star Wed., Sept. 21, 2022
Leila Ghodrat Jahromi should have been sitting in class at Simon Fraser University this week, studying for her master of education degree.
Instead, the Iranian student is sitting in her temporary home in Turkey as she waits for a…
Published September 21, 2022
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Representation matters: Black youth talk about the power of connection and community
CBC Communications · Posted: Sep 14, 2022
There was a sense of comfort, empowerment, and belonging for the 400 Black youth who recently gathered in Halifax during the National Black Canadians Summit.
As author and educator Moashella Shortte said: "There is joy in the coming…
Published September 15, 2022