"We the willing, following the unknowing, are doing the impossible. We have done so much for so long that we are now able to do anything with nothing".

Author: unknown / Mother Theresa / Bill Kindrik

 

Projects

Youth and Seniors to Document Oral Histories Print PDF

New Horizons for Seniors Program funds Seniors and Diversity at Home: Routes Taken, Roots Placed.

This year, RIAC is partnering with For The Love Of Learning, the Seniors Resource Centre, Eastern Edge Gallery and the St. John’s International Women 's Film Festival to facilitate a project wherein youth and seniors in the community will document the life stories of culturally diverse seniors. Participants will create a visual art show and a documentary movie of the experience, as well as producing a booklet featuring the written stories. Keep a look out for a showcase and public reading at the Eastern Edge Gallery and a screening of the film at the Women’s Film Festival in October!

Pilot Project on a Model for Immigration Retention Research in NL Print PDF

01 June 2009

A Proposal to the Leslie Harris Centre, Memorial University

Project Aim The proposed pilot research project has the specific aim of creating a research model to inform public and community efforts to retain newcomers in this province. It will also produce limited findings by gathering directly and analyzing detailed views on immigrants' priorities and rationales for why they would settle in one place or another, particularly in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Lead partner the Refugee and immigrant Advisory Council

Funded by

The Leslie Harris Centre at MUN, NL

Pilot Project: Development of a needs assessment report of accessible supports and services for Temporary Foreign Workers, and subsequent recommendations for addressing existing gaps. Print PDF

The main goal of this project is to work with Temporary Foreign Workers, employers, settlement and integration service providers, and other key stakeholders to establish a needs assessment report. This report will identify accessible programs and support for Temporary Foreign Workers within Newfoundland and Labrador and shall examine subsequent gaps that hinder their successful settlement and integration. This analysis will then be followed up with a report outlining recommendations of the Refugee and Immigrant Advisory Council's partners and steering committee for addressing the noted gaps.

 

Lead partner the Refugee and immigrant Advisory Council

Funded by

Provincial Office of Immigration and Multiculturalism, NL

Project: Sharing Teaching Skills on ESL and Literacy Print PDF

01 June 2009

This project will bring together social service agencies in St. John's which focus on either general adult basic literacy, or English as a second language (ESL) support for immigrants. The aim is to develop a basis for on-going collaboration and support among them to provide more and better learning opportunities for non-English-speaking immigrants with low levels of formal education in the province. It emphasizes groundwork structure and plans for collaboration among NGOs, supports for networking, and improved literacy and ESL services through increased knowledge and innovation.

In partnership with the Refugee and immigrant Advisory Council

Funded by

Literacy Newfoundland and Labrador, NL

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