Psychological distress often plagues refugees when they land in Canada.
How do settlement workers develop a framework to address trauma and its impact?
How can settlement workers be better equipped to enhance the refugees’ ability to get back on his feet and flourish in their new setting?
Ottawa Global Shapers in coalition with Love Without Borders is organizing a night of art, performances, and food for a good cause.
Love Without Borders empowers traumatized refugees living in refugee camps in Greece, by inspiring them to express their emotions through painting.
These artworks have been exhibited all over US, Europe, and Asia.
The revenues garnered through that night of art will be given back to the refugees based in refugee camps to fill their immediate and unmet financial needs.
The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program is organizing a webinar to simplify things for you.
The following topics will be covered:
Maybe your responsibilities as a private sponsor are still a bit fuzzy. But rest assured!
The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program is organizing a webinar to simplify things for you.
The following topics will be covered:
Toronto Local Immigration Partnerships is organizing a workshop that will focus on tools, practices, and considerations that can come in handy when working with newcomers with limited formal education and English ability.
Settlement workers will have a training in We Speak Translate project.
This project, in a nutshell, uses the Google Translate application to get rid of the language barrier by establishing a platform for communication between front-line workers and newcomers until they develop their English.
GlobalNews- A group created by people who came to Canada as Syrian refugees is fundraising to help others in the same situation.
The group is trying to raise $50,000 via a fundraising campaign to expand its services.
“We wanted to make something useful for this beautiful city,” Loai Al Rifai, a co-founder of the Nova Scotia Syrian Society, said on Tuesday.
Why do some sponsorships succeed while others fail?
What if cultural differences were the root of the disputes?
How do private sponsors and refugees navigate through cultural differences to meet halfway?
The Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP) will try to answer these answers through a webinar.
The following topics will be covered:
Dimensions of culture
Aspects of cultural differences
Do you need to find legal information or you need assistance to address your legal problems? RSTP’s partner the refugee Sponsorship Program (Refugee SSP) is organizing a legal Clinic on the 30th of October in Toronto.
At this legal clinic, Refugee SSP will offer free refugee sponsorship application support services from their RSTP trained pro bono lawyers.
Consequently, people will be able to get assistance with their SAHs, Group of Five, Community sponsors, as well as One-Year window applications.
TheStar- Since its 2016 inception, Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) has vetted and developed skill profiles for more than 10,000 refugees now in Lebanon and Jordan — 30 per cent of them with an undergrad degree or above and half with intermediate to full English proficiency.
TheStar - It seemed an insurmountable challenge for a Regent Park church congregation to come up with $12,000 for nine plane tickets from Burundi to Toronto, let alone for a penniless refugee living in a shelter.
Recognizing and appropriately treating mental health problems among refugees can be challenging.
To help address this problem, Hong Fook Mental Health Association is organizing a mental health training workshop.
The following topics will be covered:
Understanding the impacts of trauma on an individual’s mental health
Recognizing the influences of culture, cultural identity, stigma on refugees’ mental health
