24th Metropolis Canada Conference
The CPVMNW project will be presenting at the 24th Metropolis Canada Conference — Reopening Canada Looking to the Future of Immigration Settlement and Integration.
Join our sessions:
Thursday, March 24th – A9 session
Friday, March 25th – E12 and F8 sessions
Please see the information for each session listed below:
A9 session:
Discrimination and Racism in Employment: Perspectives from both Racialized Newcomer Women and Employers
DATE: March 24
LOCATION: Plaza B Room 2nd Floor (Plaza Level)
Hear results from two studies and an initiative to address systemic racism in immigrant services.
1) Racialized newcomer women who participated in the CPRNW Pilot shared their perceptions and personal experiences with discrimination and racism in employment, including impacts of the discrimination on their well-being.
2) Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council survey results with employers in the GTA on their equity, diversity and inclusion priorities and actions taken, including their perspectives on the inclusion of newcomer women.
3) Tri-Cities Local Immigration Partnership is implementing and evaluating an anti-oppression approach to build capacity in immigrant-serving agencies to combat systemic racism in Metro Vancouver.
Session Moderator:
Melanie Pronovost, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Susanna Gurr, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)
Sugi Vasavithasan, Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council
Cameron Abigail, S.U.C.C.E.S.S
E12 session:
Short-term Impacts of the Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women Pilot
DATE: March 25
LOCATION: Seymour Room, 34th Floor (Perspectives Level)
The Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women pilot project is a research project evaluating the impacts of employment programming for newcomer women being implemented by partner service provider organizations. In this presentation, the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation, the evaluators of the pilot, will present the immediate and intermediate impacts of the programs including impacts on participants’ skills, employment, and well-being. Presenters from two partner organizations will describe their interventions, share their experiences of being involved in the research project, and discuss employer engagement in the context of their programming.
Session Moderator:
Kim Lehrer, “Short-term Impacts of Specialized Employment Programming for Racialized Newcomer Women”
Melanie Pronovost, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Olga Zamudio, MOSAIC, “Pathways to Caring”
Maria Polovinka, Opportunities for Employment, “Milestones to Employment”
F8 session:
Design thinking with individuals with lived experiences
DATE: March 25
LOCATION: Plaza B Room 2nd Floor (Plaza Level)
Hear how racialized newcomer women’s lived experiences have been an integral part of program and policy design for the Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women pilot project.
1) Findings from focus groups with participants who struggled to enter the labour market after the program and implications for programming will be presented
2) Stories from photovoice, a visual participatory action research methodology, will be shared.
3) Achev will share how stories and qualitative data impacts their work in the Milestones to Employment program and the Career Pathways for Women program.
Session Moderator:
Lindsay Alves, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Julie Rodier, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), “Post-program experiences : what worked and ways to improve programming for racialized newcomer women”
Sol Park, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), “Photovoice in the Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women Pilot: Understanding the program experience from participants’ views”
Tania Amaral, Achev, “The impact of stories on our work”