Interested in sponsoring refugees as a Group of Five?
The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) is organizing a workshop.
Participants will be able to get information on:
Eligibility and admissibility requirements for refugees being sponsored
How to identify an acceptable proof of refugee status
Creating a group synergy when sponsoring a refugee can be quite difficult.
To help you get there, Islington United Church is organizing a workshop.
Participants will be able to learn:
How to build trust
Reduce conflict
Create a positive team workshop
Date: Saturday, 22nd of February, 2020
What are the different program options to sponsor a refugee?
This is a question that the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) intends to answer through its webinar.
Attendees will be able to get an overview of:
The application process
Recent updates and changes to processing
Who can be included in an application package
Maybe you have been wanting to sponsor a refugee and do not know how to go about it?
To help you realize your ambition, the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) is organizing a webinar.
The following topics will be covered:
Who can sponsor under the PSR Program
What are the specific requirements for Groups of Five and community Sponsors?
Who can be sponsored?
What are the refugee status documents?
After sponsoring a family of 4 from Colombia, the Grantham Mennonite Brethren Church is a gala to raise money for the sponsorship of another family.
The resettlement process is in partnership with the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), and the Blended Visa Office Referred Program (BVOR) which matches refugees identified for resettlement by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) with private sponsors in Canada.
You can help them by either attending the gala or contacting the church to make a donation.
Unique in the world, Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program (PSR) allows Canadians to offer protection and a new home to refugees. But what does it take to sponsor a refugee? The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) is organizing a webinar to walk you through the process.
How do you make sure that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is kept in the loop while life happens? This will be the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program’s (RSTP) main webinar theme.
What leads some people to become private sponsors for refugees? D. Martin Mark recounts his journey as a private sponsor in a humble and intimate setting.
The Refugee Hub is organizing a roundtable around refugee sponsorship.
The recent publication of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees will be the focus of this roundtable.
Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the lessons learned and the ways forward for the private sponsorship of refugees.
Date: Thursday, 21st of November, 2019
Time: 2:00 p.m to 3:30 p.m
The Office for Refugees, Archdiocese of Toronto (ORAT) is organizing an information session for private sponsors who received the Notice of Arrival Transmission (NAT).
This session will equip them with the final preparation before the refugees land in Ontario.
Date: Thursday, 21st of November, 2019
Time: 10:30 a.m to 11:45 a.m
Location: 1220 Yonge Street, Toronto
