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Open-access – No Location Calgary Alberta Key recommendations Key populations immigrant service workers who are first generation immigrants Key findings IRCC is currently using a “outcomes-driven” program, with the aim of better outcomes for clients currently in the process of resettlement, and is incr...
Integration timeline: not defined Key populations: newcomers in Wood Buffalo Key recommendations: 1) Create an online information portal about services for newcomers, paired with in-person information and orientation sessions. 2) Explore the feasibility of moving the Welcome Centre to a more accessible location. 3...
Community organizations: N/a Future research / gaps identified: The majority of participants were economic immigrants. Key populations: African immigrant men in Lethbridge Integration timeline: Not defined Key findings: Central Theme: Lost in Transition – African men’s mental distress and pathways of navigating...
Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: Jose is a second generation immigrant Community organizations: n/a Key findings: 1) Jose is on the agender spectrum (they are non-binary and genderqueer), and they define agender as diverging from cis-heteronormative gender boxes. 2) Jose’s parents cont...
Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) Trans Day of Remembrance is vital to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to commemorate Black trans people who have passed, and increase awareness of the inequities trans people and Black trans people continue to face. 2) Black trans people experience significant inequities, la...
Future research/gaps identified: Develop new initiatives for vaccine messaging and delivery, specifically for older immigrants and immigrants in rural Alberta Integration timeline 2 – 20 years since arrival Key populations Immigrants and refugees across Alberta Key recommendations Tailor public heal...
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...
Key recommendations Increase legislation in Alberta for temporary foreign workers (TFWs) to ensure safety in the Prairie region, such as changing conditions to make the work permit applicable to more than one job in the same sector, and work permits for spouses of TFWs Create a monitoring program through funding fr...
Future research / gaps identified: Key populations: LGBTQ+ newcomers in Edmonton Key recommendations: n/a Community organizations: Edmonton Newcomer Centre Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) The Edmonton Newcomer Centre’s Rainbow Refuge program provides settlement, housing, mental health and c...