2023-2024
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2023 has represented a solidification of N4’s unique role at the intersection of health and newcomers. Our dual mandates promote concrete and actionable systemic changes that result in equitable access and experiences for immigrants and refugees within health and social services whether they are newcomers seeking care, or those with international training seeking employment. [ Continue reading ]
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2022-2023
| Part of the Solution: Recommendations for Welcoming Internationally Trained Physicians into Canada’s Health Care Sector |
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The future of health care requires innovative, sustainable solutions to the health human resource crisis that Canada’s health care system is currently facing. The successful integration and retention of internationally trained physicians (ITPs) into the Canadian health care workforce can help to address the health human resource crisis, while advancing the diversity of the Canadian health care workforce.
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| Welcoming Internationally Educated Nurses into the Canadian Health Care Sector: Recommendations for Change |
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The future of health care requires innovative, sustainable solutions to the health human resource crisis that Canada’s health care system is currently facing. The successful integration and retention of internationally trained physicians (ITPs) into the Canadian health care workforce can help to address the health human resource crisis, while advancing the diversity of the Canadian health care workforce.
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April 2022 ushered in an exciting new chapter for N4. Our mandate to promote practices that enhance newcomer equity in accessing and experiencing health and social services was expanded to also examine equity for newcomers who provide those services, specifically internationally trained physicians (ITPs) and internationally trained nurses (IENs). We are pleased to provide our annual report for 2022-2023. [ Continue reading ]
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| "A Missing Part of Me": A Pan-Canadian Report on the Licensure of Internationally Educated Health Professionals |
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This report explores the barriers that internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) experience on their path to licensure in Canada, as well as some facilitating factors. The research is the result of individual and organization stakeholder visits that N4 conducted in 2022 and provides a snapshot of the everyday realities of frontline and lived experience professionals at this time. [ Continue reading ]
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2021-2022
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In 2021-2022, N4 solidified and grew its approach to promoting equity for newcomers as they access and experience services within health and social services. In addition to growing our tools to assist members to connect, learn and collaborate, we also launched our CoP model, a mobile app, and held our first conference. We're pleased to report a summary of that work within our annual report. [ Continue reading ]
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| Newcomer Navigation from Coast to Coast During a Dual Pandemic: Report on Outreach and Site Visits |
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This report presents findings from N4’s outreach and engagement activities that took place during this unusual time in Canadian history; April 2020 to January 2021. The purpose of N4’s research activities were to better understand the experience of professionals as they supported newcomers in navigating Canada’s complex health and social services systems during that time. Outreach and engagement sessions took place throughout the first three waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time period, COVID-19 vaccinations became available for administration in Canada.
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2020-2021
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This past year will forever be in our minds and hearts as that of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racism. Our collective desire to solve the health inequities and discrimination faced by newcomers challenged N4 and its members to amend services while simultaneously problem solve how to breakdown the heightened systemic barriers as the world moved to digitally based service models. N4 was honoured to support its members by tailoring its content to support this work: whether it was highlighting and curating partners resources and informational tools, bringing forward speakers with innovative practices, or relaying the latest disaggregated data for... [ Continue reading ]
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| National Needs Assessment: Report on N4 Outreach and Site Visits |
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Recognizing that there were a wealth of existing resources, training and subject matter experts in newcomer navigation within the health and settlement sectors, N4 began its work by conducting a national needs assessment. The aim was to curate and mobilize this knowledge, understand the remaining gaps in knowledge to be addressed, plan to fill those gaps, and foster connections, collaborations and learnings among the various professionals across Canada. This report summarizes the methodology and learnings from the 1st phase of the needs assessment, as well as describe the implications for N4.
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2019-2020
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This year marks the birth of N4; the National Newcomer Navigation Network, a pan-Canadian network designed to foster and promote connections between all those who provide navigational assistance to newcomers in the health and social services. Ultimately, we want to create a network to support seamless, consistent and equitable experiences for all newcomers, regardless of which Canadian city they first call home. The idea was born out of the challenges we faced when attempting to provide the best possible experience to the many Syrian refugees we served starting in later 2015. Unable to locate a platform to connect and learn from peers, we often found ourselves feeling as though we were “reinventing a wheel” which probably existed elsewhere but we just couldn’t find it... [ Continue reading ]
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