Featured Organization: Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence (CWICE)

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.

Launched in 2018, CWICE was founded by Peel CAS and the Ontario Association of Children's Aid Societies. CWICE now operates an international consultation centre, participates in research across the country and offers a national training program. In addition, CWICE is managed by Danielle Ungara and Liz Okai, and has been deemed a model of Ontario’s child welfare redesign plan, and offers services to children, youth, and families across the province.