Helpful resources

Stay updated  with what is happening  with refugees:

NOTICE: IRCC has temporarily stopped accepting new applications from Groups of 5 and Community Sponsors. This pause does not apply to the Private Sponsorship applications that we submit through City of Refuge. Our applications will still be processed normally.

• UNHCR is currently responding to humanitarian emergencies in multiple countries, working to keep people safe while they are on the move and displaced from their homes - on-going emergencies in the world

Websites:

• Faith and Settlement Partnerships Resource Packet -36eba7_ae771d7a607141d781479736f6228043.pdf36eba7_ae771d7a607141d781479736f6228043.pdf
• Service providers for newcomers in Canada
  • Service Providers under IFHP in Canada.pdf
  • https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/services/index.asp
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - www.unhcr.org
• Refugee Sponsorship Training Program - www.rstp.ca
• Finding Meaningful Employment -www.jumpstartrefugee.ca/refugees
• Language classes - LINC
• Volunteer - services
• Ontario - www.settlement.org
  • Employment - Job Search websites.pdf
  • Hamilton Newcomer Services newcomer_services_in_hamilton_-_a_guide_for_service_providers.pdf
  • https://refugeportal.wordpress.com/other-resources/hamilton-specific-resources/
• Manitoba- www.ircom.ca, www.mansomanitoba.ca, www.immigratemanitoba.com
• Alberta - https://www.alberta.ca/settle-in-alberta.aspx?utm_source=redirector
• British Columbia - www.issbc.org
  • BC Medical Services Plan
  • SUCCESS Immigrant Settlement and Integration Program (ISIP) (Arabic speaking)
  • Newcomers Guide

Documents:

• First_Days_Guide_EN.pdf
• Health coverage (website: IFHP) in Ontario: Health-Care-Coverage_Ontario_-updated-August-2017.pdf
• Ontario Disability Support Program: ODSP-Eligibility-for-Refugees-in-first-12-Months.pdf
• 1951 Geneva Convention: rights of refugees

City specific resources:

• Hamilton, ON  -
  • YMCA Immigrant Services: Newcomer information
  • Wesley Urban Ministries: www.wesley.ca
  • Newcomer Health Centre: www.newcomerhealth.ca
• Vancouver, BC - 
  • Settlement services: https://www.mosaicbc.org/
  • BC housing assistance
  • https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/services/index.asp
  • BC ToolKit for Private Sponsors.pdf
  • Check out your local YMCA Immigration Services

Share  City of Refuge with your church!

• Church presentation (video) - City of Refuge - Private Sponsorship of Refugees
• Church presentation (pdf) - City of Refuge Presentation.pdf

Literature:

• Strangers in the Kingdom: Ministering to refugees, migrants, and the stateless by Rupen Das and Brent Hamoud
• You Welcomed Me by Kent Annan
• The Other Face of God by Mary Jo Leddy
• Foreign to Familiar by Sarah A. Lanier
• Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis
• Send Them Here by Geoff Cameron -description