Inclusion in a new network, Meetings (5) have occurred between Minutes of the Strengths in the Coalition and the Strengths in Meetings Communities Network Communities Network Comments The Strengths in Communities Network, consisting of a group of federal, provincial, local institutions is working with the Coalition to host an Employment Fair for immigrants and refugees/ ethnic minorities to be hel [...] It focused on the life of 3 immigrant youths and the adjustments they and their families try to make to their life in Canada and linked these everyday experiences with the policy issues focused on at the Forum (education, employment, health and social exclusion and isolation). [...] After the community workshops concluded, the time came to choose among the community who would become a core group member and who would commit a great deal of time to planning the Community Celebration and the Forum and become directly engaged with government. [...] The push away from the MCHBs and reinterpretations of the MCHB and the researchers as ‘external’ to the group, was a sign of group solidarity in which boundaries of inclusion were being developed. [...] On the part of the MCHB Co-op, the emerging group identity and the need for autonomy was a development welcomed and aspired for in the project.