Edited by Neena, Elveena, Salma, Jiayi, Sihua, Hasna,Sybel, Eun Kyoung, Roxanna, Kayla

Advocating funding for newcomers in Canada to

provide more resources for smooth transition.

Canada is a multicultural country. People are coming from different cultural backgrounds with different values, beliefs, and identities.

Language Barriers Settlement Education Social/Emotional stress Employment Financial burdens Health Childcare Unrealistic expectations

Interview with newcomers agency: Malvern Family Resource Centre

Interview with newcomers agency: Afghan Women’s Organization

Survey : Survey Monkey Hard copies In person Online Research

As a group we visited the Newcomers centre in Malvern to try and get an understanding of the supports available and how they go about making these services known.

Not all the support services are offered right at there center's. They direct Newcomers to different locations where they can get the specific support/supports they need.

Funding is a HUGE issue Language barriers Education: They are part of the TDSB so for

children they at this centre directly help parents enroll them in schools.

Some resources people feel embarrassed to access.

As well we visited the Afghan Women’s Organization continually tried to get an more information to the support our advocate topic.

Basically, the organization works for new coming women in Canada. They also provide link classes which is for both for men and women. They have two branches one in Mississauga and another is in Scarborough.

They faced some issues while providing services for newcomers such as Lack of funding, government cut down their 40%

cost from last year. Therefore, they could not hire more teachers from different language backgrounds.

They need more volunteer workers to help newcomers for link classes.

They also feel that most of the newcomers do not know about their services, and they are trying to do some outreach, which is not enough.

Survey monkey for ECE students

Survey in hard copies at Centennial College students

10 questions in the survey

50 students participated in the survey

Complex health insurance eligibility and entitlement rules

Limited pre-arrival health care Limited Language and literacy skills Lack of familiarity with the Canadian

healthcare system Precarious finances Factors related to gender and culture

Concluding our researches, the followings are the main barriers for newcomers in Canada: Language skills Not enough Funding Lack of Resources Invalidation of education backgrounds Lack of Employment opportunity

Since we had done so much research about the issues and stress that newcomers are facing, it is time to take actions! We believe all together, we can make a change! Help raising up awareness, fight for funding and resources! Picture Resources: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSh3cw2LIDd-51aX-Xax4GNz4jzom95oNZvnlcpReuoAiH5mX21 https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSvQkiwd8W2uHyE2W8LMhzZbQmgTEO-PJL9aP7IODDwUaT2Fa20 http://25.media.tumblr.com/3ca7d795436bcb1a31e56a7e23941c15/tumblr_mv6m8bmbJW1rprhpmo1_500.jpg

Poster and Pamphlet Face book Letter to International Service Fundraising Petition Volunteer

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People come and go, rush to work or school like we all do. Not everyone really has time to stay and learn about the missions of our advocate.

We considered the difficulty of raising up the awareness in a limit of time.

Therefore, we decided to use posters to catch people’s attentions as we post them up in the campus and public areas.

• Although posters may not contain all the information or researches, it can help catching people’s attention while they do not have time or patience to read a whole piece of passage.

We wish using posters can help to attract audiences and get interested in our advocate.

To effectively bring our message to the audiences, first thing we need to do is educating the public in a simplest but most straight forward method.

Delivering pamphlets is always a convenient and direct way to send out our messages.

All of which aims to help

people understand, raise up awareness of our topic and convince others to take part in the advocate.

Also, provide information of agencies to people are seeking for help.

Living in the multimedia society, it is important for us to getting information online.

Facebook is large online social media which has more than one billion users all over the world.

It spreads out messages quickly and people getting information fast.

Our Facebook Page has

164 followers which include people from different countries.

We have posted all the information from the Statement to Action Plans to increase their awareness to support newcomers

We wish to use this common online social community to spread the information out and encourage people to take an action to support newcomers.

What is petition?

A formal written request, typically one signed by many people, appealing to authority with respect to a particular cause.

Make a petition to prove a

point. When people sign it, that's saying that they agree with what you say.

Petition is a legal instrument (form)

Especially a respectful or humble request

Request, that is

addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power

Why fundraising?

Obviously, the answer to this question would be money.

Many people may think; newcomers must come with money. Even if they are not rich, surely they won’t be too poor. However, it is not necessary!

In facts, people come to this country with different backgrounds, experiences and identities. Some of them may carry burdens more than we can ever imagine. To survive, they need funding from organizations and the government.

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YMCA newcomers settlement

program provides a variety of comprehensive and wide ranging services to newcomers who need help.

Therefore, we contacted the supervisor of the department and see if we can hold big sale to help gather donation.

There we go!

The big sale went well as we successfully gathered $150 during almost two hours of fundraising!

We prepared a comment board for people to put their opinions, feelings and experiences about what newcomers.

It was a great and unforgettable experience! Although the donation wasn’t a big amount of money but we wish that can help raise up public’s attention of newcomers’ issues.

H International students find it difficult to access to the services and consultation at the campus. The following are some of the issues: Limited information/

resources Long waiting lines Lack of staff Work permit application To fight for more resources, we wrote a letter to the international department.

Our final action plan

We contacted Afghan Women’s Organization to see if there was any volunteer position we can help with

We were arranged to help delivering pamphlets and flyers. All of which aimed to help raise up the awareness of issues that newcomers are facing.

The following organizations are aimed to help newcomers settle down in Canada

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East Metro Youth Service 1200 Markham Road, Suite 200 Scarborough, Ontario M1H 3C3 Tel: 416-438-3697 Fax: 416-438-7424 Email: emys@emys.on.ca Website: www.emys.on.ca

East Metro Youth Services was founded on 1974, it is an organization that combines adolescent mental health and addictions centres and is qualified by the Children’s Mental Health Ontario to serve young people and their families in East Toronto.

The main interest of the organization is to enhance all youth’s well- being through providing services to help youth and young adults to engage in reaching their personal best, improving their mental health, advancing cooperation with families and communities.

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Newcomer Centre of Peel (NCP)

165 Dundas Street West, Suite 116 Mississauga, Ontario, L5B2N6, Canada Phone: (905) 306-0577 (905) 306-1275 Email: info@ncpeel.ca Website: http://www.ncpeel.ca/

Newcomer Centre of Peel (NCP) is an association with understanding and expertise that assists all newcomer families that are settling in Canada. It functions with the funding from Citizenship & Immigration Canada and commits to maintain service quality as its mission is to provide newcomers in Canada confidential professional advising and referral in order to advance their well-being and improve their welfare.

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Malvern Family Resource Centre is a multi-service social service agency providing a variety of programs and services to residents in the Malvern and Rouge River riding located in North-east Scarborough.

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YMCA is a one-stop shop for newcomers to Canada, which provide newcomer

services across Canada to meet their different needs. For example settlement worker and education information, youth service and essential government documents, language and education, etc

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AWO's Mandate is to provide settlement services to all newcomers, with a special focus on women, their families, refugees and people who have experienced war and persecution. Its Mission is to improve newcomers' quality of life, to help them live in dignity and reach their full potential, and to prompt social and economic inclusion so that they may be contributing members of society.

Afghan Women’s Organization Scarborough 2555 Eglinton Ave. East, #211 Toronto, ON M1K 5J1 Tel: (416) 266-1777 Fax: (416) 266-8145 Websit: http://www.afghanwomen.org/

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