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Overview
ISS supports newcomer families using various approaches including peer support methodology, leadership training opportunities, as well as social, recreational and academic programming. These approaches enhance the capacity of newcomers,
in particular women and youth, to actively participate in Canadian society while building their confidence and self-image. At the same time, newcomers gain validation and understanding around the complex issues of integration and adjustment. Services and programs may be gender, age or ethno-specific depending on different factors and needs assessments. Programs may also be part of larger multi-year community development and community capacity building initiatives.
Services - Multicultural Community Leadership
ISS' Multicultural Community Leadership division consists of two main programs:
Multicultural Youth Circle Program for Newcomer Youth (MY Circle Program)
- provides a 80-hour peer facilitator/ community leadership training specifically designed to support immigrant and refugee youth who are facing challenges integrating into their new lives in Canada.
- Supports youth facilitators/leaders to go to partnering host organizations (schools, community centres, neighbourhood houses) to deliver youth driven/led support services to other newcomer youth facing difficulties with their adjustment process.
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African Youth Program
- provides academic, social and recreational programming for African youth, ages 14 to 24, residing in the East Burnaby / New Westminster Area.
- builds and enhances African student’s self-image, confidence and identity;
- develops African high school students as community leaders and role models;
- creates strong, positive African youth voices so that they are able to engage in various community development initiatives, act as change agents, and support their newly arrived peers to Canada.
Services - Stepping Up for Immigrant Women
Cross Cultural Peer Support Program for Immigrant and Refugee Women (CCPSP)
- provides mental, physical and social support to immigrant and refugee women experiencing challenges during their integration process;
- trains newcomer women to become peer support group facilitators; and,
- supports graduates to go back into their communities and deliver 10-week
peer support groups for other newcomer women facing difficulties adjusting to their new lives in Canada.
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Who Can Apply
- (My Circle Program) - Any immigrant or refugee youth between the ages of 14 to 24, interested in learning how to facilitate self-help peer support groups for other newcomer youth around issues of integration and adjustment.
- (African Youth program) – Youth, both girls and boys , ages 14 to 24, residing in the East Burnaby / New Westminster Area.
- (CCPSP) - Candidates must have an immigrant and/or refugee background and a strong desire to help others and give back to their communities by assisting other immigrant and refugee women with their adjustment process. The successful candidates must be willing to make a strong commitment to the training and the facilitation of the peer support groups;
Contact Information
Phone: (604) 684-7498
Location
530 Drake Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 2H3
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City of Vancouver
United Way of the Lower Mainland
Sharon Martin Community Health Trust Fund,
Vancouver Coastal Health
Vancouver Foundation
Ministry of Employment and Income Assistance |
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