Strengthening Hybrid and Digital Service Delivery: Models for consideration
Published on: July 30, 2022
In this session with the Peel Newcomer Strategy Group, I was invited to speak about how organizations can advance the collective conversation on hybrid and digital service improvements regionally and where we might see opportunities to align with recent recommendations of the National Steering Committee on Technology (NSCT) focused on the Canadian settlement sector.
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Useful resources about digital and hybrid/blended service delivery
Published on: January 14, 2021
This is a short list of existing and useful materials in and outside of the sector related to digital and hybrid service delivery. The list is merely at a starting point.
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Checking assumptions about technology and sector collaboration (survey results)
Published on: August 31, 2023
Earlier this year, Jennifer Chan and I surveyed the Canadian immigrant and refugee-serving sector to find out how you are doing, both individually and organizationally. In today's post, we asked front-line workers and organizational leaders to agree/disagree with some statements.
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Canadian Diversity: Technology in the Settlement Sector (2023)
Published on: March 15, 2023
The articles in this edition of Canadian Diversity should provide you with some inspiration and ideas. You should want to learn more about the projects and research. Hopefully they will encourage you to share what you’re working on.
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Building a tech-enabled community of practice
Published on: February 5, 2023
I was going through upcoming conference agendas, curious about what tech, hybrid, innovation-related sessions there might be. If you're curious too, I've compiled a list with descriptions and presenters from the Metropolis and AAISA conferences, and P2P's post-conference webinar series.
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Checking our assumptions about technology and sector collaboration
Published on: July 7, 2022
I’ve found that when it comes to technology and our sector we make far too many assumptions based on anecdote rather than data. Of course, our work should be guided by both. I’m a big believer in qualitative and quantitative feedback and data. But we should be using both when we’re coming to conclusions that guide our move to a hybrid service delivery model.
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Ibukun Abejirinde and Nancy Clark on compassion and virtual care for Newcomers and Refugees
Published on: August 19, 2024
In this Technology in Human Services podcast episode I was joined by Ibukun Abejirinde and Nancy Clark to talk about their work looking at how to re-imagine digital or virtual health care through a compassionate lens, focusing on Newcomers to Canada.
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WESO: Tools to Evaluate Online and Hybrid Service Delivery (webinar recording)
Published on: April 30, 2024
This 2023 ARAISA webinar is a presentation of the Wired: Evaluating Settlement Online (WESO) Toolkit. It focuses on key areas for settlement services, like capacity building, quality assessment, data analysis, and resource allocation.
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You don't need to be an early AI adopter, but pay attention (newsletter summary post)
Published on: September 12, 2023
If most Canadian businesses haven't adopted AI in their work, should you worry if you haven't yet?
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