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Organizational Standards Initiative: Strengthening Capacity and Accountability

The Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants has launched this initiative to strengthen capacity and accountability in Ontario’s immigrant- and refugee-serving sector through the development and use of voluntary organizational standards and related tools.
Enhancing Settlement Sector Capacity: A Project of the National Task Force on Professionalization in the Settlement Sector

Coordinated by the Canadian Council for Refugees, the Task Force is a partnership with provincial and regional settlement umbrella organizations, aiming to promote the professionalization of both settlement practitioners and settlement service agencies.
Pathways to Gender Justice: A Tool Kit for People Working in the Immigrant and Refugee Serving Sector in Canada
Canadian Council for Refugees

This tool kit is designed for use by individuals for personal and professional development and by groups for training sessions, educational workshops, program evaluation, policy review, policy development, staff meetings, and annual general meetings.
On the Front Lines of Toronto’s Immigrant- and Refugee-Serving Sector
Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and Family Service Association of Toronto

This report provides information about the working conditions within the immigrant- and refugee-serving sector.
Attracting and Retaining Immigrants: A Tool Box of Ideas for Smaller Centres, 2nd Edition
National Working Group on Small Centre Strategies

Funded by the Government of Canada (Citizenship and Immigration Canada), the tool box is a practical tool for smaller centres to use as they build a strategy to address the issues surrounding the attraction and retention of immigrants.
2005 National Host Conference: Proceedings
Citizenship and Immigration Canada

The conference was held in Toronto (February 16-17) under the theme “20 years of Host: Celebrating our Successes, Building our Future.”
Professionalization of the Settlement Service Sector
Adnan Türegün

Held as part of the Fall 2004 Consultation of the Canadian Council for Refugees (November 18- 20, Victoria), this workshop explored strategies to improve the professional standing of the settlement sector. Among the issues discussed were training, accreditation, and national standards for agencies and workers.
National Settlement Service and Standards Framework
Moy Wong Tam

Prepared for the National Voluntary Sector Initiative Working Group on Settlement Standards, Professionalization, and Accountability, this document discusses a range of significant settlement issues and presents a national settlement service and standards framework.
Canadian National Settlement Service Standards Framework
Canadian Council for Refugees

This document is presented as a “work in progress,” a framework within which standards can be developed relating to three key areas: client services, settlement sector workers, and settlement organizations.
Best Settlement Practices: Settlement Services for Refugees and Immigrants in Canada
Canadian Council for Refugees

The purpose of this document is to present an overview of settlement services and in particular to identify some of the elements that are generally agreed to make for successful settlement programs.

Events



12th National Metropolis Conference

March 18 - 21, 2010
Montreal, Quebec

The theme for this conference is "Immigration and Diversity: Crossroads of Cultures, Motor of Economic Development."
OCASI Spring 2010 Professional Development Conference

May 12 - 14, 2010
Alliston, Ontario

The conference will take place on May 12-14, 2010 in Alliston, Ontario.

Umbrella Organizations


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