Check out: "Mar 18, 2024 Immigration Weekly" for the latest events, information and resources related to immigration in Waterloo Region. Find out about:

Territorial Acknowledgement

Immigration Partnership Highlights
1. Resources and Recordings from our First Brown Bag Lunch Learning Series Session are Available!
2. Immigrant Survey & Snapshots
3. Submissions to Federal & Provincial Government
4. Other Publications
5. Introducing Our New Branding to Partners, Organizations and the Community

Immigration Partnership Resources
6. Interpretation Best Practices Checklist
7. Waterloo Region Employer Playbook

Community Partner Highlights
8. Settlement Services
9. Language Learning Services
10. Health & Mental Health Services
11. Employment Services
12. Francophone Services
13. Waterloo Region APPLY: A Centralized Hub for Non-for-profit Organizations to Start Grant Search within Waterloo Region
14. Refugee Rights Day Open House at COMPASS Refugee Centre
15. Waterloo Region Community Foundation is looking for you to join their team as the Executive Assistant
16. Pathways to Prosperity 2024 National Conference
17. Protect your eyes during the April 8 solar eclipse

Refugee Integration Updates
18. Supporting Afghan and Other Refugee Resettlement in Waterloo Region
19. In Solidarity with Ukraine

Initiatives & Funding Opportunities
20. The Building Safer Communities Project Open Call for Applications for One-Time Project Funding
21. The Musagetes Fund is Now Accepting Applications!
22. Seniors Community Grant Program Applications Now Open
23. Applications Open for the Community Grants!
24. Waterloo Region Community Foundation is Now Accepting Applications for the Woolwich Fund!
25. Calling all Community Changemakers! The Upstream and Community Capacity Building Funds are accepting applications
26. Nominations for Kitchener and Waterloo’s Senior of the Year Awards are Now Open!
27. Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) Announces 2024 Funding Application Deadlines
28. What Does it Mean to Be a Host

Resources
29. Front-end Processes for Refugee Claimants
30. Un Guide Pour Tous
31. Find a Mentor to Help you Become a Licensed health Professional in Canada
32. Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) – Newcomer toolkit
33. Free Tax Clinics

La Communauté en Français
34. Pourquoi les Jeunes Immigrants sont-ils sous-employés au Canada?
35. La 17è édition du Symposium annuel sur l'immigration francophone
36. Prestations et crédits pour les nouveaux arrivants au Canada
37. Pratiques de recrutement et de rétention des infirmières formées à l’étranger

Workforce Corner
38. A New Way to Settle Abroad is coming: Say hello to the Learning Marketplace powered by World Education Services (WES)
39. Behind the Business Podcast
40. Networking Success: Building Connections for Career Growth
41. Working Caregivers: Creating a Baseline Understanding
42. National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) Upcoming Webinars

Events and Webinars
Upcoming Events
43. Migration Working Group: Integration and Migration Governance
44. Migration Disrupted: How Technological Transformation is Reshaping Human Mobility
45. Waterloo from Above: 200 Years of Change
46. Kultrun World Music Festival
47. Caribana Ignite

Newcomer Services
48. Strategic Resume Writing
49. Job Fair – Free Networking + Job Fair Event
50. Career Planning
51. Effective Resume Writing
52. Online Citizenship Support Group - Option 2
53. Citizenship Support Group
54. Let's Talk
55. Online Citizenship Support Group - Option 1
56. Healing through Art for Kids and Parents

News
57. Canada’s immigration system isn’t living up to its potential. Here’s how to fix it from The Globe and Mail, March 18, 2024
58. Newcomers to Canada tone down expectations as they look to survive rising prices, survey says from the Financial Post, March 18, 2024
59. Growing number of Conestoga students seeking asylum in Canada from The Record, March 14, 2024
60. A Growing Problem: How to align Canada’s immigration with the future economy from RBC Thought Leadership, March 13, 2024

Funders’ acknowledgment

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