Professional Development

Public libraries offer many free resources and services for newcomers to Ontario.

Allies for Refugee Integration (ARI) is a project aiming to foster collaboration between settlement service providers and sponsors to offer the best support for privately sponsored refugees throughout their settlement process in Canada.

LGBTQIA+ people represent a large, but often invisible, part of immigrant and refugee communities. Immigrant and refugee organizations have an obligation and responsibility to provide relevant, effective, and appropriate services to these immigrants and refugees, who are often marginalized within multiple communities.

Settlement Support Connection (SSC) is a project of the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP). It connects refugees sponsored by any sponsoring group with settlement workers trained to better understand the dynamics of the private sponsorship of refugees.