To help newcomers settle, adapt and integrate into Canadian society, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), in partnership with provinces, territories and settlement providers, has been delivering programs and services to migrants of more than 40 nationalities for over 16 years, and providing stakeholders necessary funding to support these initiatives.
For this purpose, a new settlement funding of over $10 million has been announced to help six partner agencies delivering settlement and integration services to new immigrants in the city of Ottawa, Ontario. This funding, which is provided under the Canada-Ontario Immigration Agreement (COIA), will cover the period of next two years through to 2010, and expected to help more than 1,300 migrants who have settled in the capital city of Canada. The services will include helping migrants find jobs (such as job-search workshops) and assisting them in getting general orientation, translation and interpretation services. The funding will also help migrants with referrals to community resources and counseling services.
The six partner agencies in the city of Ottawa, who will receive a portion of $10 million, include Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization ($3,880,570), Catholic Immigration Center ($2,219,030), Ottawa Catholic School Board ($74,315), LASI World Skills Inc. ($1,652,218), Ottawa YM/YWCA ($2,187,496) and Ottawa Public Library ($464,202).
Similarly, a new settlement funding of over $13.3 million has been announced for seven partner agencies in the Windsor and surrounding area to deliver settlement services, including language training and employment-related support, to new immigrants. This funding will cover the period of next two years, and expected to help an estimated 7,500 migrants who have settled in the Windsor area. These seven agencies include the following: Adult Language and Learning ($391,070), College Boreal ($354,474), Multicultural Council of Windsor and Essex County ($1,668,263), New Canadians’ Center of Excellence Inc. ($7,704,816), South Essex Community Council ($368,995), Women’s Enterprise Skills Training ($469,135) and YMCA of Windsor and Essex County ($13,367,936).
Another funding, totaling $4,169,211, has been announced for the Afghan Association of Ontario and the Afghan Women’s Counseling and Integration Community Support Organization to assist in delivering settlement and integration services to newcomers in Greater Toronto Area. This funding is expected to serve an estimated 5,500 people with settlement services such as language training (including a child-minding services for participating parents) and employment-related support.
Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in the Kitchener-Waterloo-Cambridge area will also receive a funding of $3.2 million, which will go towards developing and delivering brand new English-language training services to meet the increasingly diverse needs of newcomers. The funding is being provided under the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) program, and expected to serve more than 250 newcomers in this area.
These funding for settlement and language training to Ontario are provided under the $920 million COIA over five years and are part of $1.4 billion package over five years to provinces and territories other than Quebec, which was committed by the Canadian federal government in budget 2006.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Canada announces new funding to help newcomers settle in Ontario and improve language skills
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