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Community organizations: Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic Future research / gaps identified: This study focuses on 1 specific clinic and cannot be generalized to other contexts. Integration timeline: first 2 years after arrival Key populations: Afghan refugees resettled in Calgary who are using the Mosaic Refugee He...
Key findings: 1) The overarching theme of the interviews was “The necessity of finding ways to survive in the face of intersecting challenges.” 2) The subtheme “struggles in Canada” discussed structural barriers to economic success, compounded discrimination across intersectional identities, and the burden of the doubl...
Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) Future research / gaps identified: Evaluate long-term effects of the program. Integration timeline: mean of 1.19 months since arrival in Canada Key findings: 1) Positive changes, particularly for those who participated frequently, included impro...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Perspectives of service providers were explored, and not those of the young men they were serving. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) Our first theme, a sense of self in relation to systems, included connections between mental wellbei...
Future research / gaps identified: Complete a longitudinal study (i.e. follow participants over time) to support this data. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) The majority of participants had more knowledge of postnatal mental health as compared to prenatal mental health. 2) Only 25.4% accurately r...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Increase community engagement in future vaccination efforts, especially when addressing marginalized communities Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings The community-engaged COVID-19 vaccine outreach clinic for migrant communities...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: This data is cross-sectional (taken only at one time point)- continue studies that track participants over time. Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 17.21% of survey participants had limited health literacy. 40.15% who had marginal h...
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: n/a Future research/gaps identified The mental health of Filipino immigrant men in Canada is largely understudied as a whole Key recommendations: Increase the understanding of service providers on Filipino (mis)understandings of mental health and mental illness Develop anti-stigma i...
Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: Work with communities to co-identify solutions to the barriers found in this study. Integration timeline: newcomers not defined Key findings Barriers to primary health care access included: Long wait times, unavailability of practitioners, and long...