Featured Organizations

The Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence (CWICE) is a service and training centre gaining national recognition for its leadership and innovation. A first-of-its-kind model, CWICE focuses on the intersection of child welfare with unresolved immigration, settlement, or border-related issues. As a Centre of Excellence, CWICE is grounded in practice, as a way to inform capacity building and research, and provides a unique structured provincial response to system navigation.

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The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) is a not-for-profit registered charitable organization that has been actively serving newcomers and low-income Calgarians since 1988. TIES' primary goal is to provide immigrants and economically disadvantaged individuals with a solid foothold in Canada and afford them the opportunities to feel belonging in their new community.

TIES has been helping newcomers to Canada flourish for over 35 years and will be celebrating this milestone on October 26th.

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Re-posted from October 2022

The Alberta International Medical Graduate Association (AIMGA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the successful integration of International Medical Graduates (IMGs). AIMGA believestheir clients have a contribution to make within their health systems and communities. 

Re-posted from June 2021

rainbowrailroad.org · Toronto, ON

Rainbow Railroad is global not-for-profit organization that helps LGBTQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics. In a time when there are more displaced people than ever before, LGBTQI+ people are uniquely vulnerable due to systemic, state-enabled homophobia and transphobia. These factors either displace them in their own country or prevent them from escaping harm.

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World Education Services (WES) is a non-profit social enterprise that supports the educational, economic, and social inclusion of immigrants, refugees, and international students. For nearly 50 years, WES has set the standard for international academic credential evaluation, supporting millions of people as they seek to achieve their academic and professional goals. Through decades of experience as a leader in global education, WES has developed a wide range of tools to pursue social impact at...

Refugees possess a wide range of valuable skills and expertise in professions like medicine, engineering, software development, and various skilled trades. And yet, despite having marketable talents, many refugees find themselves in countries where they don’t have the right to work locally and are locked out of skilled migration pathways. 

Established in 1988, the Centre for Newcomers (CFN) in Calgary, Alberta, provides training programs and collaborative support services for immigrants and refugees to promote full integration, cultural diversity, community participation and citizenship to more than 20,000 newcomers each year. At CFN, you will find a full suite of cost-free services and programs for immigrants and refugees in Calgary, including: Settlement & Integration Services; Career Development & Job Search; English Language...