Project Overview > Community Partners
This section includes examples of community engagement initiatives that were profiled as part of this project by immigrant settlement and newcomer service providers. These service providers play an important role in providing newcomers with resources, information and programs to facilitate their full and equitable participation in the social, cultural, political and economic life in Canada.
Feedback from consultations conducted by OCASI, indicates that there are a number of activities that service providers engage in that foster community participation. These include mobilizing individuals and groups, advocacy activities, building the capacity of a community to articulate a problem or challenge, providing tools for empowerment and sharing information and resources.
A number of examples are provided from six community partners that cooperated with OCASI on this project. The examples demonstrate how flexibility in the approach and design of programs, services and activities help to facilitate community engagement of newcomers.
Visit the Promising Practices section for examples of community engagement and volunteer initiatives from our community partners. Each project partner description provides useful examples both to individuals who are interested in volunteering and to organizations that are interested in developing activities or program with a view to enhance newcomers’ civic participation and engagement, community development and social inclusion. To find more information use the links that are provided at the end of each example.