Knowledge Mobilization for Settlement
Articles, webinar recordings, thoughts, research summaries, and good ideas in settlement and inclusion.
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Posted on: May 14, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Fixing Canada’s immigration system isn’t about cutting numbers—it’s about meeting the need, Carney’s aim to cut immigration marred by undercounting of temporary migrants, economists warn, Youth not in employment, education or training: Recent trends, Foreign student asylum claims hit record high in 2024, set to grow in 2025, and more.
Posted on: May 7, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: Top of the Agenda: How the new government can address Canada's biggest challenges, Balancing Canada’s Population Growth and Ageing Through Immigration Policy, More newcomers are learning French in hopes of improving their chances to stay in Canada permanently, Beyond settlement: How employers can close the immigrant employment gap, and more.
Posted on: April 30, 2025
The weekly roundup includes research, stories, and events of interest to the Canadian immigration and settlement community. Includes: What the Liberals have in store for Canada’s immigration policy, Skilled migrants are leaving the U.S. for Canada — how can the north gain from the brain drain?, Canada ended this temporary foreign worker program. It may affect how food gets to your table, Migration Governance in Unsettled Times: How Policymakers Can Plan for Population Change, and more.
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Posted on: May 16, 2025
Strategy, strategy, strategy. That's what you'll hear when you read any good social media or technology in human service article. It's an essential piece of getting started, doing it well, learning from your forays into technology use, and refining your approach.
Posted on: November 2, 2024
This research examines the potential impacts, both positive and negative, of Generative AI (GenAI) on Black communities in Canada. The study aims to provide business and policy leaders with guidance for creating an AI-powered future that mitigates potential negative impacts and creates inclusive opportunities for Black communities.
Posted on: September 6, 2024
This research explores the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to support and empower Newcomers during their settlement in Canada. It highlights the settlement sector as an underexplored area for AI applications that could directly benefit Newcomers.
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Posted on: November 7, 2023
Shared Digital Guides is a Catalyst initiative, contributed by CAST in the UK. Organizations share guides to how they use digital tools to run their services and operations. Even better, you can to copy, replicate, and learn from what they've done.
Posted on: August 1, 2023
International Student Connect provides International Students with an authoritative information source along with connections in their community where they can get needed help and support. That alone makes it useful. But it is its first steps towards seamless information delivery in our sector that makes it very promising.
Posted on: May 29, 2023
The YMCA of the National Capital Region’s project, Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO), is a research-based program that addresses the challenges/barriers that service providers and newcomer clients face in delivering/using remote and hybrid services. The project is uncovering evidence-based practices that Settlement Service Provider Organizations (SPOs) find promising in delivering remote/hybrid services and engaging clients, creating a toolkit/framework and resources for SPOs to evaluate the effectiveness of your service delivery and adapt your models accordingly to improve services, and creating a network of knowledge and promising practice sharing.
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