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Canadian Council for Refugees Fall 2015 Consultation Courage, Contributions, Resilience

20 Apr 2016

The Working Group meetings held during the Consultation were divided in two parts and took place on Thursday and Friday, which gave participants the opportunity to first become familiar with the functions and key issues of the working group, and then discuss emerging issues and share information, best practices and their own initiatives with others from across Canada. [...] The Consultation was made possible thanks to the time, dedication, and hard work of staff from Micah House Refugee Reception, Immigrants Working Centre, North Hamilton Community Health Centre, Refuge Health Centre and others, and the team of dynamic and helpful volunteers they recruited and coordinated. [...] The resource persons were able to provide three different perspectives to this issue: 1) the concept of social innovation; 2) the application of this concept in the newcomer settlement sector, and 3) the example of a specific social innovation project with Tibetan newcomers in British Columbia. [...] The workshop provided an important opportunity to hear from the resource persons and for participants to contribute their perspectives, in the context of the recent upsurge in popular support for refugees and the government commitment to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees. [...] Issues related to interdiction that were discussed include: How to respond to calls from people overseas wanting to know how to get to Canada Electronic travel authorizations – March 2016 Development of a tool kit of practical information to be given to persons in the US looking for info on claiming asylum at the Canadian border Need for info on recourses for exclusion from the family in C
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16
Published in
Montreal,Quebec

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