Community organizations:
Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative
Edmonton Public Schools
Edmonton Catholic Schools
Centre for Autism Services Alberta
Integration timeline: not defined
Key findings:
Parents of children with ASD were often advised to use only or more English with their child, by friends...
Community organizations
NA
Location
Alberta
Integration timeline
At what point during the integration process the study was conducted?
NA
Key populations
Temporary foreign workers; Service providers
Key findings
Temporary Foreign Workers experience barriers in accessing mental health services; mental health challe...
Community organizations:
Edmonton Immigrant Services Association and Partners for Humanity.
Key findings:
Identified strengths of African immigrant parents that contributed to positive child health and mental health included:
Collective cultures
Agility and resilience
Value systems
Intellectual capacity (e.g...
Future research/gaps identified:
1) Gang members were reluctant to participate due to gang rivalry and/or legal consequences
2) The majority of participants were NOT central and/or high ranking gang members
3) The majority of participants were male
Location – Calgary, AB
Open access – No
Community organizations:...
Open-access – Yes
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12134-015-0454-9.pdf
Location
Calgary, Alberta
Key recommendations
Supporting the needs of immigrant men through cultural and age-sensitive programs, as they experience a crisis of masculinity after migration; develop pre-migration courses that offer...
Open-access – No
Community organizations
NA
Key recommendations
Support seniors to develop English language competency, adequate income, and sufficient income so that they can leave home to build social connections because this can increase their social contact with both co-ethnic and host society members; Governme...
Key findings
Young African immigrants (~15 years old, some are younger) often enter the labour market because of their precarious economic status. While working, they also have to manage their time attending school. In some cases, such as the one seen in small town Alberta of Brooks, these worker-students come from oth...
Key recommendations
Counsellors need to be aware of the challenges faced by immigrant children in their new life in Canada, both inside as well as outside the school system. They need to learn about the cultural background of such children to understand the differences and potential conflicts and issues that these chil...