Key recommendations
Maintain a blended form of service delivery, offering both online and in-person options for clients
Use ongoing feedback to determine impacts of each type of service delivery
Key findings
Compared to before restrictions, 11% more clients used online therapy delivery.
76% of clients neede...
Open-access – Yes
Location
Chestermere
Alberta
Key recommendations
Collaborate with service groups for newcomers
More education surrounding mental health and cultural sensitivity in healthcare
Increase education on DEI elements, and on racism
Key populations
Newcomers
Key findings
Though serv...
Open-access – Yes
Location
Hanna
Alberta
Key recommendations
Start conversations about diversity and inclusion
Conduct education campaigns about newcomers, in order to spread awareness
Create a community ambassador program for newcomers
Key populations
Newcomers
Key findings
There is a “welco...
Key populations
NA
Open-access – Yes
https://aaisa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Alberta-Settlement-and-Integration-Sector-Survey-2021-EN.pdf
Key recommendations
NA
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
Community organizations
43 agencies
Location
NA
Key...
Gaps identified
NA
Key recommendations
NA
Key populations
AAISA members, service providers
Key findings
Funding for agencies that serve Canadian citizens and permanent residents is better compared to those that serve refugees, temporary resident, and undocumented individuals
Reasons for long waiting lists:
high...
Open-access – Yes
Location
Calgary
Alberta
Key recommendations
Increase remote services as long as possible, and having TIES reopen in phases, with strict protocols.
Assist with limitations in service delivery online due to aspects such as childcare, technological limitations, such as increased training...
Location
Edmonton, Alberta
Community organizations
NA
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
Those who were in Canada for greater than 10 years and less than 10 years.
Key populations
Muslim immigrant seniors
Key findings
Muslim immigrants experience racist, sexi...
Community organizations
NA
Gaps identified
NA
Key recommendations
NA
Key findings
Refugees maintained ties both in their home-country and Canada. Although the trauma associated with Sudan’s Civil War continued to haunt the participants, they insisted on creating ties in their sending country. We found that engagi...
Gaps identified
Most studies on immigrant experiences focus on challenges and immigrants’ sense of exclusion rather than their resilience
Key recommendations
NA
Key findings
The youth pointed to African ethnic community associations and religious groups as sites and means of inclusion because they provide 1) spaces...
Location
Alberta
Key recommendations
NA
Key populations
Settlement and Integration Agencies
Key findings
Funding for agencies that serve Canadian citizens and permanent residents is better compared to those that serve refugees, temporary resident, and undocumented individuals
Reasons for long waiting lists:
hig...