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Future research / gaps identified: Continue conducting studies on the sociocultural influences on immigrants’ oral health to better understand its complexities and potential areas of intervention. Open access: Yes Community organizations: n/a Integration timeline: 1st generation immigrant parents Key findings:...
Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: South Asian immigrant youth (SAIY) ages 14-24 in Edmonton, AB Key recommendations: Develop, implement and evaluate interventions to address the challenges and barriers SAIY identified in this study. Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified...
Key recommendations: The results also indicate that programs such as IPLAY can have important and positive impacts on youth participants, and how future programming may be able to adapt to further support the growing demographic of newcomer youth. Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: 1) WinSport 2) CCIS...
Community organizations Windsor YMCA Location Windsor, Ontario Key recommendations NA Key findings Discrimination negatively impacts students’ ability to adapt to and deal with the educational stressors of a new environment. When students experience discrimination, their options are to fight, fawn, or flee—that i...
Community organizations: 1) REACH Edmonton 2) Alliance Jeunesse-Famille de l’Alberta Society (AJFAS) 3) BUCACY (Building Capacity among Children and Youth) 4) Boys and Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters (BGCBigs) 5) Eastglen ELL Metro 6) Welcome Centre for Immigrants 7) BGCBigs / Nyarkeni 8) Bridging Minds Edmonton 9...
Key recommendations There is a need for culturally and religiously sensitive approaches to teaching; Curricula should be more inclusive and bias removed Key findings Teachers lack awareness about the needs of Muslim and immigrant children; There is a lack of cultural sensitivity in schools; there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’...
Future research / gaps identified: This study is exploratory and preliminary. Integration timeline: The article says ‘recent immigrants’ participated, but doesn’t specify further. Key populations: Recent Filipino immigrants who now live in rural Alberta and have children in secondary school. Open access: No Co...
Location Edmonton, Alberta Key recommendations Preventative dental care cannot happen when there are structural barriers in place (such as access to insurance and prohibitive costs), these must be addressed alongside informing newcomers about the importance of preventative dental care for their children Key populat...