Citizenship

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Citizenship Immigration Canada Library
Settlement Partnerships (LSP) Initiative
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Overview of Presentation

• CICs Vision, Mission and Mandate
• The Process of Integration
• Settlement Programs in Ontario and Client
  Eligibility
• Where does LSP fit?
• History of LSP
• Structure of LSP CICs responsibilities
• A little bit about COIA

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CICs Vision

• An approach to immigration
• that responds to the needs of communities in all
  parts of the country by creating opportunities
  for individuals to come to Canada to make an
  economic, social, cultural and civic contribution
  while also realizing their full potential, with a
  view to becoming citizens and,
• that supports global humanitarian efforts to
  assist those in need of protection.

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CICs Mission

• CIC, with its partners, will build a stronger
  Canada by
• Developing and implementing policies, programs
  and services that
• Facilitate the arrival of persons and their
  integration to Canada in a way that maximizes
  their contribution to the country while
  protecting the health, safety and security of
  Canadians
• Maintain Canada s humanitarian tradition by
  protecting refugees and persons in need of
  protection and
• Enhance the values and promote the rights and
  responsibilities of Canadian citizenship.
• Advancing global migration policies in a way that
  supports Canada s immigration and humanitarian
  objectives.

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CICs Mandate

• CIC derives its mandate for settlement services
  from the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act,
  2001, which states as a key objective
• to promote the successful integration of
  permanent residents into Canada, while
  recognizing that integration involves mutual
  obligations for new immigrants and Canadian
  society.
• Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, 2001,
  3(1)(e)

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CIC Program Eligibility

• Who is eligible for services?
• Permanent Residents
• Protected Persons
• Persons whose applications for Permanent Resident
  status have been approved in principle
• Live-in caregivers (information and referral
  (ISAP) services only)
• Canadian citizens and refugee claimants are not
  eligible clients.
• Co-funding allows for access by non eligible CIC
  clients. LSP is considered to be a co-funded
  project because of the non monetary in-kind
  contributions the library provides.

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Process of Integration

Short-Term
Intermediate
Long-term

• Basic Orientation
• Using Services
• Canadian culture

• Language Training
• Literacy
• Levels 1-7
• Occupation Specific
• ELT

• Political Participation
• Civic Engagement
• Citizenship
• Voting
• Volunteering

• Employment
• Resume Job Search
• Job in Related Field

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Settlement in Ontario Region - Programs

• Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation Program
  (ISAP)
• Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada
  (LINC)
• Host Program
• Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP)

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Where does LSP fit?

• ISAP Immigrant Settlement and Adaptation
  Program
• 2 streams of funding ISAP A and ISAP B
• Under Stream A, ISAP funds the delivery of direct
  services
• Under Stream B, ISAP funds indirect services that
  contribute to the improvement of direct service
  delivery e.g., conferences, research,
  audiovisuals, publications, training, etc.

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Where does LSP fit?

• LSP derives its funds from ISAP A funds.
• ISAP A includes the following services
• Initial needs assessment
• Information and orientation
• Interpretation and translation
• Referral to appropriate community resources
• Solution-focused counselling
• Employment-related services
• ISAP A is delivered by over 160 service providing
  organizations (SPOs) across Ontario both
  ethno-specific and multi-ethnic organizations
• Over 200,000 clients were served in 2007
• Other initiatives that receive funding through
  ISAP A include
• SWIS, ELT, JSW, etc.

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History of LSP

• LSP grew out of the Settlement Workers in Schools
  initiative.
• The Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) Program
  is a very unique partnership model first piloted
  in 1999 that involves the participation of
  settlement agencies, school boards and CIC.
• The program reaches out to newcomer families by
  placing settlement workers in elementary and
  secondary schools. By placing settlement
  services where all school-aged children must go,
  we are able to reach a greater number of
  newcomers than through traditional points of
  service.
• During the summer months when school is out,
  settlement workers needed to find other places in
  the community where they could deliver services.
  The library became a popular spot for SWIS
  workers.
• Libraries saw the benefit of having settlement
  workers in the library year-round, not just
  during the summer and thus, LSP was born.

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History of LSP

• Like SWIS, LSP brings settlement workers to
  where clients are.

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History of LSP

• LSP was first piloted last year in three library
  systems
• Toronto Public Library (7 branches Albion,
  Agincourt, Flemingdon Park, Parkdale, Thorncliffe
  Park, Toronto Reference and York Woods)
• Hamilton Public Library (3 branches the
  bookmobile)
• Ottawa Public Library (7 branches)
• It is now expanding to include 47 branches in
  total in 11 library systems across the province.

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Structure of LSP

• Like SWIS, LSP is a partnership model of service
  delivery.

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CICs Responsibilities under LSP

• Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides
  overall direction and funding for the year-round
  settlement program including the hiring of LSP
  workers, the Provincial Coordinator, outreach
  librarians in some systems, and resources for the
  purchase of library materials to support the
  collection development needs of the program.
• With our other partners, we also participate in
  program planning, evaluation, outreach, and
  program management.

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A little bit about COIA Canada Ontario
Immigration Agreement

• Bilateral agreement signed November 2005
• Framework for immigration and integration policy
  and program development in Ontario
• Primary objectives and areas of activity
• Increased federal funding of 920M (1.4B total)
  over five years for settlement and language
  training services
• Improved outcomes for newcomers support
  successful social and economic integration
• Building partnerships with municipalities to
  support immigration and integration activities
  that are related to their interests
• Increased economic benefits of immigration
  address labour market needs through a Provincial
  Nominee Program and Temporary Foreign Workers
  Agreement

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A little bit about COIA Canada Ontario
Immigration Agreement

• Strategy 1
• Develop a flexible, coordinated system of
  settlement services with strong linkages and
  clear pathways to services newcomers need such as
  language-training, labour-market integration, and
  social services.
• Strategy 3
• Work with municipalities and federal-provincial
  government departments to enable partnerships
  that will integrate newcomers in the economic and
  social life of Ontario communities.
• ? Strategies to support the successful
  integration of newcomers into Canadian life.

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A little bit about COIA Canada Ontario
Immigration Agreement

• 3 long-term outcomes
• Newcomers are welcomed and fully integrated into
  Ontario communities
• Newcomers are engaged and participate in all
  sectors of Ontario/Canadian society economic,
  social, political and cultural
• Ontario/Canadian society and communities benefit
  from the contribution of newcomers
• Some intermediate outcomes
• Newcomers can access the full range of community
  resources and services
• Newcomers participate in the economic, cultural,
  social and civic life of their communities
• Communities welcome, retain and support newcomers

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