A Study of the Settlement Needs and Issues Experienced by Sudanese Newcomers in Windsor/Essex County
This qualitative study examines the settlement needs and issues experienced by Sudanese Newcomers in the Windsor/Essex County Area - March 2001.
An Enquiry into the Delivery of ISAP Settlement Services to the Black/African Community in Peel/Halton Region
This study documents the settlement issues facing black/African newcomers in the Peel/Halton region, and the capacity of settlement agencies in Peel/Halton region to meet their needs - 2000.
Attracting & Retaining Immigrants: A Tool Box of Ideas for Smaller Centres
This tool box is intended to help communities that wish to attract and retain newcomers. Originally released in 2005, this is the second edition of the Smaller Centre toolkit - February 2008.
Best Practices for Working with Homeless Immigrants and Refugees
A study looking at issues and best practices among shelter and drop-in staff for working with immigrants and refugees - March 2003.
CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge"
This package is the product of the CERIS PAC Training Project "Knowledge for Action - Action for Knowledge". It is intended to be a resource training manual for community agencies serving immigrants and refugees.
Cities of Migration: Connecting Cities to Improve the Integration of Urban Migrants
The Maytree Foundation's Cities of Migration project aims to improve the integration of urban migrants through information sharing and learning exchange and to become a catalyst for city leadership on migration issues, internationally.
Client Involvement and Empowerment
How to include your clients in decision-making that may affect them, ensuring that your organization is sensitive to issues of cultural, racial and gender differences that can affect our organization''s performance.
Collaboration and Partnering
Collaboration is a process through which parties who see different aspects of a problem can explore constructively their differences and search for (and implement) solutions that go beyond their own limited vision of what is possible.
Ending Poverty in Ontario: Building Capacity and Organizing for Change - A Workshop for Engaging Low Income People
This manual has been developed to assist facilitators to hold community-based workshops with low income people and other community members active in ending poverty - Spring 2008.
Facilitator Guide to Encourage Newcomer Voluntarism
This guide provides staff and volunteers who work with newcomers with a practical and easy to use resource to assist them to introduce newcomers to opportunities to become engaged in civic and community participation through voluntarism - Feb 2008.
How to Do a Good Interview
A fact sheet from CREHS with information about how to effectively interview someone for community research.
How to Start and Maintain a Self-Help Group
There are many right ways to form a self-help group. This publication contains basic tools that have worked well for many new groups.
INSCAN (International Settlement Canada) Summer 2009 - Immigrant Volunteers: Their Characteristics, Contributions, and Experience
This article reviews some of the characteristics of immigrant volunteers, within the framework of the contributions they make to Canada.
Investing in Our Communities: Strategies for Immigrant Integration
This U.S. guide describes how grantmakers at all levels can play an important leadership role on the issue of immigrant integration - 2006.
Labour Market Orientation and Employment Preparation for Foreign-Trained Engineers in Ontario - a concept from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers
CIC-HRDC met with representatives from the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) to include employers in discussions about ways to help foreign-trained engineers in Toronto obtain employment in the engineering profession - May 2002.
Media and Public Relations
An effective communications strategy reflects your organization''s mission, goals and objectives, and is well integrated into daily operations. It requires a clear articulation of who your audiences are, clarity of message, and choice of media platform.
Promoting Newcomer Integration and Social Inclusion
This OCASI project will identify promising or best practices and develop resources and tools that encourage community engagement and participation by immigrants and refugees and facilitate their social inclusion.
Resources on Confidentiality for Self-Help/Mutual Aid Support Groups
This kit discusses confidentiality, including when you must break confidentiality in cases of abuse or self-harm.
Right Before Your Eyes: Internationally Trained Workers in Canada
This package encourages employers to tap the relatively unexploited pool of skilled workers with international training and provide employers with resources that will ease the process of integration from the initial search through language training - October 2003.
Setting the Course: A Framework for Coordinating Services for Immigrants and Refugees in Peel Region
A report providing an assessment of the effectiveness of coordinated delivery of services for immigrants in Peel Region - 2000.
Some Tips for Running a Good Focus Group
A fact sheet from CREHS with information about when to use focus groups and how.
Toronto Drop-in Network (TDIN) Good Practices Toolkit
Drop-ins provide a safe and welcoming refuge for vulnerable members of our society. This Toolkit is designed to help the people who operate drop-ins be the best that they can and provide the most effective service to the community - 2007.
