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Tapping Canada’s Hidden Healthcare Talent Pool: Tips and Tools to Recruit and Retain International Experience
N4 has published a report and accompanying toolkit with resources, promising practices, strategies, and tools to support the recruitment and retention of internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) into Canadian health care organizations.
IEHPs improve Canadians’ access to care and enhance the diversity of our health care workforce through their valued international education and experience – a key asset to health care employers across sectors and provinces. In order to be successful, IEHPs require additional supports towards integration in their workplace and their communities.
New Members
Health and social service professionals across Canada join N4 to ensure equity for our newcomers. Here's some of the cities where our newest members have joined from.
Brooks, AB · Calgary, AB · Edmundston, NB · Fredericton, NB · Halifax, NS · Hamilton, ON · Kitchener, ON · London, ON · Midhurst, ON · Mississauga, ON · Montreal, QC · Nanaimo, BC · New Westminster, BC · North York, ON · Oakville, ON · Ottawa, ON · Peterborough, ON · Portage la Prairie, MB · Regina, SK · Saint John, NB · Saskatoon, SK · Selkirk, MB · Toronto, ON · Vancouver, BC · Windsor, ON · Winnipeg, MB · Woodstock, NB
Featured Webinar
Equity in Hiring and Retention of IEHPs
Over the next three years, Canada will welcome 1.45 million newcomers, primarily in the skilled immigrant class. Newcomers bring diverse skills and experience and cultural and linguistic talents with them into the workforce. However, systemic barriers and bias within job postings and interview processes create unfair disadvantages for newcomers preventing entry into the workforce. This webinar will provide guidance to organizations seeking to welcome newcomers into their workforce by applying an inclusion and equity lens. Participants will identify bias within their organization’s hiring practices and learn tools and strategies they can apply to incorporate equity into hiring processes.
Speaker: Ann Curry-Stevens, Associate Professor, Wilfred Laurier University
April 5 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Upcoming Webinars
April 5 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Equity in Hiring and Retention of IEHPs
Speaker: Ann Curry-Stevens, Associate Professor, Wilfred Laurier University
Register NowApril 19 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Part of the Solution, Not the Problem: Recommendations for Welcoming Internationally Trained Physicians into Canada’s Health Care Sector
Speakers: Joan Atlin, Director, Strategy, Policy, and Research, World Education Services · Deidre Lake, Executive Director, Alberta International Medical Graduates Association · Dr. Ahmed Alkahtib
Register NowApril 26 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Welcoming Internationally Educated Nurses into the Canadian Health Care Sector: Recommendations for Change
Speakers: Joyce Kristjansson, Executive Director, Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba · Edward Cruz, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Windsor · Jennifer Lopez, Patient Care Coordinator - UHN-TGH/ Registered Nurse, Unity Health Toronto
Register NowMay 10 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Sustainable Health Resources and Information for Newcomers
Speakers: TBD
Register NowJune 21 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Intersectionality between Newcomers and Indigenous Peoples
Speakers: TBD
Register Now
Featured Member
Tim Guest is the CEO and Past President of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and the former board member of several other nursing associations and colleges across Canada. Now in his fourth decade as a registered nurse (RN), he has applied his nursing and management skills in rural and urban organizations to direct care, clinical nursing unit management, and executive leadership, as well as healthcare consulting, and now nursing advocacy and policy at the national level.
Public Data
Key Arrival Data: Operation Ukrainian Safe Haven
Since February 2022, evacuees from Ukraine have been arriving in Canada under the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET) program. Below are some key metrics about arrival numbers, locations, and some specific data about those entering through Toronto Pearson Airport with the support of the Canadian Ukrainian Immigrant Aid Society. Data for this entry was provided by the Operation Ukrainian Safe Haven National Secretariat.
Featured Organization
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. Talent Beyond Boundaries (TBB) is building a world where displaced people can safely migrate for work and fully realize their skills to rebuild their lives with dignity and purpose. Founded in 2016, TBB’s mission is to help refugees who have talents that are in demand in the global market find employment opportunities in countries where their skills are sorely needed.
Our Latest Organizational Partnerships
Colleges of Nurses Ontario, Toronto, ON
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
NOSM, Sudbury, ON
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ON
Conseil Économique et Social d'Ottawa-Carleton (CÉSOC), Ottawa, ON
N4 meets regularly with stakeholder organizations to ensure we support their efforts to create equity for newcomers.
Book a virtual meeting with N4.
Webinar
Resources for IEHPs
Webinar on the importance of trained healthcare professionals for the Canadian healthcare system. Presented by Franco-Health Network of Southern Ontario.
April 4 · 12pm · French · 1 hour · Free
Workplace Inclusion: A Roadmap for Senior Managers
Strategic planning is one of the most widely used tools when it comes to EDI. As daunting as the exercise may seem, the key is getting started with the right people and practices. This workshop will examine how to set an EDI transformation process in motion and what research says about practices that can push the needle in favor of minoritized groups.
Speaker: Michaël Séguin, Assistant Professor, Saint Paul University Providence School of Transformative Leadership and Spirituality
Resources
Download Webinar Audio | Workplace Inclusion: A Roadmap for Senior Managers
The Centre for Global Inclusion: The Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Benchmarks
Perceptions of shared values in Canadian society among the immigrant population
Workplace Inclusion: A Roadmap for Senior Managers Join the discussion!
What Members Say About N4
"N4 has been an excellent source of information- through their website and webinars- and has allowed me to connect with other service providers across the country."
Zoe Schwartz, MSW, RSW, Social Worker, BC Children’s & BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, Vancouver, BC
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