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Multilingual Resources Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Living
Translations of the Guide in Amharic, Farsi, Spanish, Vietnamese. Cultural adaptations (and translations):Chinese, Portuguese, Punjabi, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu, Vietnamese

Elections Canada Information for Multilingual Voters
Elections Canada has produced a voter information guide and a document about voter identification at the polls in 27 languages.

Employment Standards
Information about employment standards is available in 23 languages. These documents provide clear and concise information about the Ontario Employment Standards Act, 2000

Information on Mental Health
Documents available in various languages are: About Mental Health, Asking for help when things are not right, Understanding Addiction, Coping with Stress, Alone in Canada: 21 Ways to Make it Better (for recently arrived immigrants and refugees)

Settlement.Org: Information in Your Language
Settlement.Org has information in more than 30 languages, from various sources. This page lets you see what is available in your language.

Six Languages Text and Audio Project
CLEO is pleased to announce that text and audio materials on six high-need legal topics are now available in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin and Simplified Chinese), Somali, Spanish, Tamil and Urdu. The materials are also available in English and French.

Wecome to Ontario
This Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration publication - Welcome to Ontario is a guide to programs and services for newcomers to Ontario.

Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
Fact sheets in four categories 1. For employers 2. For workers 3. Prevention 4. Occupational disease

Your Library
Online videos about obtaining a library card, story time, and a summer reading club. Languages: Arabic, Bengali, Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, English, Farsi, Filipino (Tagalog), French, Gujarati, Hindi, Korean, Pashto, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, Urdu

Partnership Development Partnership Assessment Tool
Developed for community-campus partnerships, this tool would work with only minor adaptation in other contexts. It outlines indicators under 10 principles of partnership.

Partnership Handbook and Facilitator's Guide
Skills, knowledge and experience are required for productive partnerships. The Partnership Handbook has been developed by the Labour Market Learning and Development Unit at Human Resources Development Canada. It provides tools and tips to enhance partnerships, and outlines what is needed to move forward together.

Together We Can
This excellent manual was written about collaboration to benefit at-risk children in the education system. However the five-stage process, highlighting both milestones and landmines has broad application to all areas of human services. Quote: "Collaboration is a mindset that says OF COURSE I'm going to need the help of others to do my job."

Resources for Newcomers askON
askON is a real-time chat research and information service staffed by public and post-secondary libraries.askON staff respond to questions on a wide range of subjects. They provide research guidance and can help you navigate the Internet, your library's services, and other online resources. askON hours are:Monday through Thursday, from 1pm-8pm and Friday through Sunday 1pm-5pm. The service will be available up to 10 hours a week in French.(Closed on holidays.)

British Council Learn English Central
A portal to several Web sites for teachers and learners of English. There are many interactive learning activities. The home page has links to two sister sites that have content in Arabic and Farsi (Go4English) and Chinese (EnglishOnline).

Citizenship and Immigration Canada Information for Newcomers
Help for newcomers and information about living in Canada.

Dressing for Winter
Poster and animated movie

Gathering Information to Better Meet the Needs of Newcomers to Canada
When you visit a settlement service provider organization (SPO), you will be asked for your name, date of birth, and immigration number or document. This brochure explains how the SPO and Citizenship and Immigration Canada uses the information, and how they protect your privacy.

Going to Canada
Links to information and services when planning a temporary stay or making Canada a new home, immigrating and settling in Canada, entry requirements for permanent residency status, application forms and fees, how Canadian citizens and permanent residents can sponsor others, including relatives, for immigration. Description of Canada - its land and climate, government and history, as well as sections on moving to Canada, living and working here.

Government of Canada
An entry point to access all government news, information and services.

Immigration to Ontario
Information about places to live in Ontario, work, go to school, learn a trade, practise your trade or profession, how to start a new business and about our people and culture, cities and towns, the weather, and our history.

Raising Children in a New Country
This illustrated handbook emphasizes parental nurturing and involvement in children's lives, for parents who are themselves adapting to a new society. (Available in English only)

Settlement.org: Welcome to Ontario
Useful information for newcomers to Ontario: finding a job, English as a Second Language, legal information, housing, heath, and much more.

Welcome to Ontario
This Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration publication - Welcome to Ontario is a guide to programs and services for newcomers to Ontario

Resources for Program Staff and Volunteers ESL and Literacy Resources
Frontier College has developed various guides and tip lists for Homework Clubs, Adult Literacy and ESL tutoring and makes them available as free downloads. The resource page lists additional items that are for sale.

Attracting and Retaining Immigrants - A Toolbox of Ideas
Government and non-government immigration professionals from across Canada have developed a Tool Box of information and practical ideas to help your community attract and retain new people. The Tool Box is a practical tool for smaller centres to use as they build a strategy to address the issues surrounding the attraction and retention of immigrants. It covers the breadth of issues and information necessary for diverse smaller centres to successfully implement their strategy.

Changing the Canvas
Changing the Canvas highlights the experiences of immigrants in the Canadian workforce. Real people tell their stories in videos. These stories remind us that real people live behind the statistics. The "media" page has links to current data and analysis on barriers to employment, poverty and racism facing immigrants and workers of colour. The site is managed by the Canadian Labour Congress with funding from the Welcoming Communities Initiative of Citizenship & Immigration Canada.

CIC Social Engagement and Integration Workshops 2008
From March to July 2008, the Integration Branch of the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada held a series of workshops in regional centres across the country to explore the role of social engagement in the integration experiences of newcomers to Canada. This document provides a summary of those discussions.

Citizenship and Immigration Cultural Profiles Project
Extensive overviews of 101 countries. Profiles are available in both English and French, as Web pages or PDF documents. These profiles were created between 1998 and 2002 and some information is now inaccurate. The site provides links to more current Web resources, such as NationMaster.com, UNICEF Country Statistics, CIA World Factbook.

Country Insights
Country facts and cultural information on the countries of the world. Go beyond the do's and don'ts with Country Insights.

Homework Clubs: How to Set Them Up and How to Run Them
A useful resource developed by Frontier College

Insurance and Liability Resource Centre for non-Profits
Our mission is to help charities and nonprofits become informed insurance consumers and take a practical approach to managing risk so that they can truly protect their people (volunteers, staff, board members, clients, participants).

Integration-Net
Integration-Net is a national bilingual Web site developed as a research, communications, and professional development tool for the Canadian settlement community. Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the Web site is hosted and managed by the Research Resource Division for Refugees (RRDR) at Carleton University.

Inventory of ELT (Enhanced Language Training) Products and Tools Produced by Service Provider Organizations
This document contains resources that haven been developed to date by service provider organizations with funding from the ELT (Enhanced Language Training) Initiative. The purpose of the inventory is to list ELT resources that are available to prevent duplication of efforts, and to promote networking and information sharing among ELT service providers and partners.

Issues Confronting Newcomer Youth In Canada
Subtitled: Alternative Models for a National Youth Host Program. CERIS Working Paper, June 2005. A study to develop models of service delivery for youth within Host and Host-like programs.

Nonprofit Library Commons
Find practical resources on the nonprofit sector in Canada and worldwide.

State of Refugees: An Introduction to Refugee and Immigration Issues in Canada
Canadian Council for Refugees has produced a booklet introducing the basics about refugee and other non-citizen issues.

Welcome Here Resource Kit
"Lessons Learned" - report on collaborations between family resource centres and settlement agencies; links and resources for creating a welcoming community

Volunteerism and Volunteer Management Best Practices Guidelines for Screening Volunteers: Finding the Right Match
Prepared by Public Safety Canada, in cooperation with Volunteer Canada, this booklet outlines the essential steps for screening persons applying to work as volunteers.

Facilitator Guide to Encourage Newcomer Voluntarism
This Guide has been produced by the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI) as a resource for staff and volunteers who work with newcomers. With a focus on the mutual benefits of civic participation and voluntarism for newcomers, the Guide provides background information, and an agenda and handouts for half-day workshop.

Renaissance50plus
Renaissance 50plus aims to bridge the gap between the needs of the skilled "50+" volunteer and the needs of the community. The project is developing and testing new participatory techniques that focus on volunteer expectations while promoting community participation. Renaissance 50plus has released two "lessons learned" documents: 1. Engaging 50+ volunteers: A Resource Guide for Agencies 2. Attention Boomers: Change the World...Again. A Toolkit to Meaningful Volunteering

The Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement
The Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement is designed to present a setting in which organizations can discuss how their volunteers are engaged and supported.

Volunteer Management Audit
The Volunteer Management Audit: Canadian Code for Volunteer Involvement has been developed as a tool for nonprofit and charitable organizations to assess their volunteer resources program.