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The Sport for Settlement program was delivered by Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) in Calgary from March 2023 to August 2025. The purpose of the Sport Canada-funded pilot was to test how free, culturally responsive sport programs, offered early in the settlement journey of refugee youth (14-24 years old), co...
This report presents findings from the evaluation of the Pride in Practice project, a partnership between Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) and Centre for Sexuality (C4S). The project, which took place from February 2025 to March 31, 2026, was made possible by one year funding from the Calgary Foundation. The...
This learning note adopts an intersectional social determinants of health framework to examine immigrant women’s health in Canada. Intersectionality highlights how overlapping systems of inequality, such as gender, race, socio-economic position, and immigration status, interact to produce distinct health outcomes. Immi...
This year’s annual CCIS Cultural Brokering Program (CCBP) evaluation focused on better understanding and documenting CCIS’ model of Cultural Brokering. This was in response to CCIS’ recent scaling of their broker model and noticing increasing community interest in broker or broker-like solutions to system change. The f...
This report presents a summary of interim findings from CCIS’ Youth Cultural Brokerage Program (YCBP) – a partnership with Calgary’s Youth Probation Office, funded by the Ministry of Public Safety and Emergency Services, Government of Alberta. The program was designed to ensure that immigrant youth and their fami...
Future research / gaps identified: 1) Advocate for HBV infant birth dose in alignment with WHO recommendation and publicly-funded “catch-up” vaccinations for unvaccinated adults 2) Establish national screening guidelines for hepatitis B beyond prenatal testing 3) Education providers on best practices for communicating...
Future research / gaps identified: Evaluate policy changes and resource mobilization initiated to address the issues stated in the findings. Integration timeline: All participants were Canadian citizens, with an average length of HIV/AIDS status of 9 years. Key findings: 1) Overall, ACB community members experience...
Key findings: 1) Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with six participants reveals that West African women define domestic violence as extreme, life-threatening incidents, with most non-physical violence under-recognized. 2) Culturally influenced coping strategies and informal support services commonly pref...
Integration timeline: not defined Key recommendations: 1) Urgently develop targeted, evidence-based interventions to address the social determinants of health that lead to poor outcomes for IRLHIV 2) Co-create responsive and culturally safe services for and by IRLHIV Location: Alberta, not otherwise specified Com...
Future research / gaps identified: 1) Examine specific demographic details such as length of arrival, migrant status, and level of education within larger sample sizes. 2) Conduct a similar study in rural or small urban areas to analyze different experiences compared to the urban-metropolitan city used in this study...
Our latest snapshot pulls together key numbers on newcomers in Alberta — settlement, employment, health and more — in one short read.