SREVICES

Our Association provides the following major services

SETTLEMENT SERVICES:

· Accessing temporary shelters for newly arrived refugees and/or refugee claimants.

· Information & orientation

· Interpretation & translation services

· General counselling (Family, Immigration, Legal)

· Referrals (training, education, employment

· Counselling and referral for internationally trained professionals etc.)

· English as a Second Language

· Support letters to Social Service Agencies, summer day camp

· Acquiring Canadian experience through placement

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

· Pre-employment preparation

· Job search & placement

· Career planning

· Counselling or training & education

· Preparing Professional resumes and cover letters

· Training in successful interview techniques and presentation skills

· Assistance in business plan and start-ups

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT & INTEGRATION SERVICES

· Assist in summer employment for students

· Organizing youth activities

· Workshops on issues affecting youth

· Career counselling

· Joint program with WLU on racialized minority youth

· Joint program with mainstream organizations in Toronto

· Organizes and supports sporting activities

· Research on prevention of youth violence

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES

· Research on community health

· Organizing community forums

· Exploration of group economic opportunities

OTHER SERVICES

· Free internet access

· Information on labour market

· Filling forms to get OHIP and SIN cards

· Accessing proper Schools for Children and Adults

· Providing information to find daycare and daycare subsidies

· Assist in filling out application forms for housing and orient enants and Landlords Acts

· Finding lawyers for clients who needed legal counseling

· Writing immigration support letters for refugee claimants, newcomers as well as for citizens to different organizations.

· Assist in sending and receiving fax and telephone messages

· Interpretation services at shelters, hospitals and other medical settings, police stations, legal offices, family courts, Children’s Aid society and other social service agencies in Greater Toronto Area.