Special Edition Grapevine Newsletter

CIWA ready to serve Syrian refugee women and children

We are pleased to inform the public, community partners and stakeholders that are working so hard to welcome Syrian refugees to Calgary, that in line with our mandate, our agency is ready to do our part to support the integration of new refugees from Syria.

We are thrilled to announce that we are fully prepared to provide supports for refugee women and children from Syria. As reported by the UN Refugee Agency, women and children make up three-quarters of the refugee population in Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan and are one of the vulnerable populations the federal government is prioritizing to resettle in Canada.

The door will be open at CIWA, offering specialized gender-focused support to refugee women and their families. Refugee women will be connected to information and orientation related to settlement, employment, family literacy, cross-cultural parenting education for parents with children of all ages, supportive counselling, and school-based individual counselling for refugee youth at five schools across the city. CIWA will offer refugee women customized employment services including drop in employment services and bridge to work programs, as well as employment training programs in the areas of accounting, office administration, interpretation and translation, childcare, food service, and retail. Refugee girls will have access to school and community-based youth programs at 15 locations with peer mentorship, civic engagement, and leadership opportunities.

All refugee women and their children receiving support at CIWA will have access to first language, free childcare and transportation services.

We believe we all have a huge role to play in the collaborative community effort to support Syrian Refugees.

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