RSTP Professional Development webinar for Settlement Professionals: supporting Privately Sponsored Refugees

The Settlement Support Connection Team at RSTP is pleased to invite you to a Professional Development webinar about supporting Privately Sponsored Refugees and PSR and BVOR newcomers.

About the webinar

This Professional Development Webinar is intended for Settlement Front-Line Staff.

This session will equip settlement workers with additional tools to better support clients who arrived as sponsored refugees and to collaborate effectively with the clients’ sponsors to ensure a smooth settlement experience.  

The session will cover the following topics:  

• key elements of the Private Sponsorship of Refugees (PSR) and Blended Visa Office-Referred (BVOR) programs,
• IRCC's expectations for sponsored refugees to access government-funded settlement services,
• the complementary roles of sponsors and settlement professionals in providing settlement support,
• description of the Settlement Support Connection project,
• best practices for collaboration with sponsors.

Speakers

• May Amouri: Project Facilitator, RSTP
• Anoush Newman: Project Facilitator, RSTP

Join the session to get the most up-to-date information from IRCC on these programs!

*Please send any questions to spoconnect@rstp.ca