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