Numerous services help newcomers settle in faster

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Image Credit: Tierra Mallorca via Unsplash

Find free newcomer services near you. Friendly and experienced settlement professionals can help you:

  • Look for a job.

  • Get a language assessment.

  • Register for language classes.

  • Find a place to live.

  • Fill out forms and applications.

  • Sign up your kids for school.

  • Learn about community services.

Find a settlement agency. Settlement agencies help newcomers and refugees find the services they need to successfully integrate in Ontario.

They can help you:

  • Get settled in your community.

  • Find housing, a job or childcare.

  • Register your children in school.

  • Access other programs such as English or French classes, employment services, skills training and foreign credential assessment.

  • Get information about healthcare and social services.

  • Find an interpreter or translator.

  • Bridge Training Programs can help foreign-trained professionals upgrade their skills and find meaningful employment in the fields they are qualified in.

The following are just some of the agencies offering a range of services to newcomers to Canada.

• Arrimage emploi (Securing Employment). La Cité collégiale. This program in Ottawa offers workshops on Canada’s corporate culture, employers’ expectations and the necessary steps for internationally-trained individuals to find a job in their field. www.lacited esaffaires.com/service-immigrants/arrimage.htm

• London Middlesex Immigrant Employment Council (LMIEC) Job Match Network. WIL Counselling for Training and Employment. This program provides an integrated job matching network for internationally-trained immigrants (ITIs) and employers in the Greater London Area. www.lmiec.ca.

• Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services offers a wide range of services in Toronto.

• Afghan Women’s Counselling and Integration Community Support Organization, Arab Community Centre of Toronto, Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society and African Community Services of Peel offer community-specific services in Toronto and in the Peel region.

• Bloor Information and Life Skills Centre, Toronto.

• Brampton Multicultural Community Centre.

• Catholic Centre for Immigrants, Ottawa.

• Catholic Community Services of York Region.

• Catholic Immigration Centre Ottawa.

  • Centre de sante communautaire Hamilton Niagara. 

• Centre for Information and Community Services of Ontario. York/Simcoe.

• Collège Boréal, Sudbury.

• Community Action Resource Centre, Toronto.

• Community Development Council Durham, Ajax.

• COSTI Immigrant Services, Toronto.

• COSTI Immigrant Services

• Welcome Centre Immigrant Services, Markham.

• Cross-Cultural Community Services Association (formerly Toronto Chinese Community Services Assn.), Markham.

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