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Empowering new beginnings: A holistic evaluation of a community-developed multi-sports program for new-to-Canada refugee youths and its impact on physical literacy, mental wellbeing and social health

Community organizations: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS) Future research / gaps identified: Evaluate long-term effects of the program. Integration timeline: mean of 1.19 months since arrival in Canada Key findings: 1) Positive changes, particularly for those who participated frequently, included impro...

Children & Youth, Mental Health, Physical Health, Refugee Experiences, Programs and Services
2024 Read More

Hands-on-ground in a new country: A community-based participatory evaluation with immigrant communities in Southern Alberta

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...

Equity and Belonging, Resettlement & Integration
2023 Read More

Transitions to belonging: Evaluating the impacts of a community-based physical activity program through the lens of newcomer youth’s definitions of mental health

Key recommendations: The results also indicate that programs such as IPLAY can have important and positive impacts on youth participants, and how future programming may be able to adapt to further support the growing demographic of newcomer youth. Location: Calgary, AB Community organizations: 1) WinSport 2) CCIS...

Children & Youth, Equity and Belonging, Mental Health, Physical Health, Programs and Services
2023 Read More