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UNHCR - Refugee-led Innovation Fund

The Refugee-led Innovation Fund champions the creativity of all displaced and stateless people. It aims to reshape their participation in the delivery of humanitarian work by ensuring they take centre stage in the decisions affecting their lives, leading the identification of needs and the design of innovative solutions.

The Fund provides holistic support – combining financial resources, mentoring, and other expertise – directly to refugee-led organizations, to enable them to design and deliver new interventions that have a lasting positive impact on their communities.

Ontario Strengthening Supports to Combat Hate and Create Safer Communities

The Ontario government is investing $25.5 million over two years to help address the rise of hate incidents against religious and minority groups. The new Anti-Hate Security and Prevention Grant will help faith-based and cultural organizations enhance or implement measures to ensure community spaces remain safe and secure.

WESO Toolkit Training

The Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO), an IRCC-funded SDI project located at the YMCA of the National Capital Region (Ottawa), would like to introduce you to our research-based evaluation toolkit for settlement organizations to help you measure and improve the quality of your hybrid services delivery.

Understanding and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Immigrant and Refugee Communities

This FREE online course is developed to help front-line practitioners working with immigrant and refugee communities to better understand issues of gender-based violence (GBV) and develop a supportive response for survivors with intersectional identities.

Creating Positive Spaces for LGBTQIA+ Newcomers Level 1

The course is intended for settlement workers to more effectively serve LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual) immigrants, refugees, and newcomers. This four (4) module training incorporates updated legislative and legal information, as well as emerging issues and trends in LGBTQIA+ communities.

Training for Employment Support Services

The professional development e-learning course Training for Employment Support Services is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to understand and address the needs, challenges and opportunities for newcomers seeking employment. Ultimately, the goal of this course is to prepare learners to provide excellent employment-related services, support, referrals and advocacy to immigrants, refugees and all/any migrants, by understanding the big issues that impact migrant communities in the areas of employment, developing a critical analysis, and learning about promising innovative practices.

Use CLEO's Guided Pathways in Family Law to ask for an order in family court

CLEO has a new Family Law Guided Pathway to help people fill out a draft of Form 25 - Order (general). A party to a family court matter can use Form 25 to write out the terms of the order they want the judge to make. For example, the order could include terms for child and spousal support.

Solidarity Between Immigrant, Refugee and Indigenous Peoples: A Focus on Gender-Based Violence

OCASI/Initiative to end Gender-Based Violence is pleased to open registration for the upcoming self-directed online course on:

Trauma and Violence Informed Approach (TVIA)

This FREE self-directed online course will provide settlement workers and social service providers with opportunities to learn fundamental principles, basic concepts and evidence-based approaches to serve people with experiences of trauma and violence. It will also provide opportunities for learning about self-care, and organizational and community building to address vicarious trauma and systemic trauma and violence.

Mental health therapy is not 'one size fits all': Expert on how to find the right treatment

Natasha O'Neill CTV News Published Jan. 23, 2023

One in four Canadians have been experiencing high levels of anxiety, a study by Mental Health Research Canada says.

As more people interact with mental illness, options on the best way to treat conditions can become overwhelming.

Dr. Candice Monson, a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and CEO of Nellie Health, says each illness and person need to be treated differently.