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Community organizations: Brooks Composite High School Integration timeline: not defined Open access: No Future research / gaps identified: Continue joint research and advocacy around this topic Key findings: 1) The study emphasized the importance of social justice and antiracism in educational practices at vari...
Location: Calgary, AB Open access: Yes Community organizations: 1) Habitus Consulting Collective 2) Alberta International Medical Graduates Association (AIMGA) 3) Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic Future research / gaps identified: Findings are not generalizable as it is qualitative study. Furthermore, the majority of...
Open access: Yes Key populations: Community leaders (called ‘animators’) participating in the All Together Now Program Future research / gaps identified: n/a Community organizations: Edmonton Multicultural Coalition Association (EMCA) Location: Edmonton, AB Key recommendations: n/a Integration t...
Community organizations: n/a Key recommendations: Expand the gardening space and create new community gardens for more newcomers. Alter policies that allocate most of the produce to the food bank, such that the newcomer gardeners themselves can take home more of their harvest. Provide formal recognition for vol...
Key populations: Syrian refugees who now live in Edmonton, AB Key recommendations: Assess current interventions that target the needs identified in this study, and create new initiatives to better respond to these needs. Community organizations: Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative Future research / gaps iden...
Community organizations: Brooks Composite High School Future research / gaps identified: n/a Key findings: Brooks has the highest proportion of Black Canadians of any census tract in Canada, as well as a strong immigrant labour force due to their meat packing industry. Student leaders at Brooks Composite High S...
Key populations: newcomers to Edmonton Location: Edmonton, AB Community organizations: Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers (EMCN) Future research / gaps identified: n/a Integration timeline: not defined Key findings: 1) EMCN offers a wide range of services, including therapeutic and counseling services, c...
Open access: No Location: Alberta broadly (not otherwise specified) Community organizations: n/a Future research / gaps identified: 1) Evaluate and modify labour and economic policies in Alberta that affect undocumented migrants, such that these health disparities are decreased. 2) Assess different models of heal...
Key findings: 1) 10/38 of the included organizations provided translation and interpretation services. 2) Overall, 46 languages have translation and interpretation services in Edmonton. 3) The most commonly translated documents were legal, licenses, medical and education. 4) Although organizations would like to requi...
Future research / gaps identified: Ideas under consideration to include in the Year 3 report included the private sponsorship system, migrants with precarious status and building upon policy implications and actions from Year 1 and Year 2 reports. Integration timeline: not defined Location: Edmonton, AB Community...
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