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Moncton, NB
Top five projects
Immigration Law 101
Women’s integration (Gender perspective to immigration)
Vendre la réalité et non le rêve: Définir ‘la réalité’
Foreign credential recognition & bridging programs
NB in NB (no BS in New Brunswick)
Channels for finding talent in IT
Youth inclusion project
Involvement & Volunteering
How can we empower newcomers to hold visible leadership position in our community
When is the last time I went out of my way to have a conversation with, connect with, a newcomer
Degree program in newcomer welcoming
Creating a multiculturalism sensitivity curriculum in schools
Responsibility & accountability
Neighborhood involvement
How might we create B2B network to share best practices?
IENs
How can we better attract + retain international students to graduation and beyond?
Rétention
Cross-cultural training for immigrants & recruiting communities & stakeholders & service providers
How training can help match labor market heads and immigration
St. John's, NL
Immigration for SME (Small, Medium Enterprises)
Fact Influencer
Retaining Newcomers in NL
How to prevent employee screening out based on nationalities?
Empowering Newcomer Immigrant/Refugee
Community Embrace Diversity
Immigration Francophone
Local Community Awareness
Arts & Culture Club
How can municipalities work together to make retention successful across the entire province?
Potluck arts experience Excuse to get together (Jams)
Collab between orgnizations
How do we connect employers and international students?
Awareness Implementation
Retention of International Students and Foreign Workers
Tombolo Festival-Keeping the Als room together annually
Moving beyond being new
Charlottetown, P.E.I
Technology can be an answer
Welcoming School Communities
Untitled
Workplace Safety
English Language Training
International Student Success & Support
Municipal Strategies Sharing Session
Music, Culture and Arts
Building your Island family
How can the Healthcare System leverage newcomers to address gaps within current system.
Multicultural Food Events
Real or perceived barriers for employers looking to hire a newcomer
What are the benefits of having a dedicated Multicultural space within your local community
Role of Human Rights Commission
Internet in rural PEI
Identity and Immigration
Affordable / Available Housing
ethno-linguistic group and minority languages
Arts as a gateway to inclusion and feeling at home
Promotional campaign for myth-busting and personal stories
Halifax, NS
How do we attract Workers/Immigrants to Rural Areas
Communication and Storytelling
Addressing underemployment / change of employment
Food security and immigration. (Its impact on Rural economies)
Inclusive language bias (unconscious)
Creating tomorrow's Nova Scotia - and inclusive Nova Scotia
Supporting immigrants or refugees facing oppression as minorities in their country of origin
How do we engage and Inspire our children?
New opportunities for work: Emerging Solutions attaching immigrants to meaningful work.
Universities Supporting International students
Sponsor Family Member
Inclusion Groups
Health Care
Myth Busting
Attracting Diverse Applicants
How can you become an ally to newcomers?
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Women’s integration (Gender perspective to immigration)
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Who came?
  • Ginette, Isabelle, Marie-Line, Kari, Natalia, Holly, Sungmi, Kathy, Rose-mai, Kim, Audrey, Constance, Heather
Questions?
  • How can the NB refugee clinic grow to better support precarious status women?
  • What is preventing our province to mirror women -specific programs that are happening across the country?
  • What funding opportunities exist to grow gendered programming for immigrant women?
  • Where is the government leadership (ahem, ‘’feminist’’ trudeau) to influence policies?
  • What are the systemic policies that contribute to the challenges re: immigrant? Women’s interaction
Notes & ideas
  • Women often follow their spouse as ‘dependents’ difficult to find work, child care etc.
  • Challenge values + family dynamics
  • Social isolation, how to leave the home (language barriers) mental health → interpretation challenges (eg. Woman interpreter)
  • Systemic issues: affordable child care, pay equity, foreign credential recognition, gender norms
  • Status: fear of deportation, huge gap in services for precarious status women
  • Settlement agencies have little resources to dedicate to gendered programming (no time!)
  • Community agencies + businesses need to extend their intersectional\gender\diversity lens to bring women to the table.
  • Need flexibility (+daycare) to allow more women to participate in settlement services
  • New Government strategy on family integration! Moving policy forward
Actions
  • Investigate funding channels
  • Connect with women newcomers: what do you need? What programs would be helpful?
  • Support NB immigrant women's association + similar initiatives
  • Seek to grow gender - analysis in settlement agencies + population growth: needs assessment to decipher how programs can be adapted or which new programs need to be developed.
  • Look at successful models from elsewhere in the country
  • Engage immigrant women in leadership positions + celebrate
Take away
  • Much overdue
  • Much to do
  • Where the heck are the men (decision makers)?
  • We’re pretty pissed
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