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Data Snapshots
Each month, N4 provides a visual data snapshot of key quantitative data sets in a simple and useable formats. Data snapshots help members make evidence-based decisions using timely and relevant sources of information.
Recent topics of research include Population and Language Data from 2021 Census and Job Market Outlook for Healthcare Workers 2023.
4,412 Pageviews | 3,079 Engagements | 21 Snapshots | 96 Data Sets
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N4 Accredited Webinars
N4 is approved by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian College of Health Leaders (CCHL), and the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education for their members.
N4 / SPU IEHPs Online English Program
Fostering Canadian Integration for Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHPs): From Learning to Action
Pre-Registration is Open Now!
2024 Winter English Program
This 12-week program is designed to accompany and support IEHPs with the challenges of finding their place in Canada. It is based on an integrated development model that focuses on knowledge, skills and identity-making. The program's content will allow you to develop non-clinical skills and knowledge to support your successful integration in Canada while forming a learning community through exercises of personal development and reflective practice (circle of support, reflective learning journals, discussion forums). It is training that welcomes you and helps you leverage your expertise in a new cultural context.
This is our 6th Cohort! · Free (funded by IRCC) · Certificate of Attendance · Limited Spots · 100% Online · Circle of Support · Live Sessions (recorded for watching anytime, anywhere)
Featured Webinar
Building Resilience: Navigating the Long-Term Impact of Trauma
This talk addresses the long-term impact of trauma and defines resilience as the human capacity to grow through adversity. Strategies on cultivating resilience through stress management and self-care, the quality of connections, and support from others.
CCHL members receive 0.5 Category II credits for attending this webinar.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the impact of trauma on your worldview and well-being
- Understand the factors that help build resilience through adversity
- Develop practices for stress management, self-care and compassion
Speaker: Dr. Bianca Briciu, Assistant Professor, School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity, Saint Paul University
December 6 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
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Upcoming Webinars
December 13 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
The Internationally Trained Physician (ITP) Licensure Journey: What's New and the Importance of Advocacy
Speakers: Dr. Makini McGuire-Brown, Chair of ITPO and PhD Candidate, York University · Dr. Joanna Walters, Vice-chair of ITPO and Family Medicine Training, University of Western Ontario
Register NowJanuary 24 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Recovering Hope and Agency in the Disorienting Dilemma of Immigration as IEHP
Speaker: Dr. Bianca Briciu, Assistant Professor, School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity, Saint Paul University
Register NowJanuary 31 · 1 PM EST · English · 1.5 hours · Free
Abortion in Canada: A Case-Based Approach to Ethical & Legal Context and Health Professional Responsibilities
Speaker: Dr. Michelle Mullen, Bioethicist, CHEO
Register NowFebruary 21 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Youth Settlement in Action: How Sectors Can Build their Capacity to Support Newcomer Youth
This webinar is accredited. CCHL members receive 0.5 Category II credits for attending this webinar. CPA members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for attending this webinar.
Speakers: Kate McDougall, Regional Youth Liaison, WRAPCAP project, Centre for Newcomers · Carolee Israel Turner, Local and Regional Partnership Coordinator, WRAPCAP project, Centre for Newcomers
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Did you know?
All of our past webinars are recorded and available for free to view at any time on our website.
English · 1 hour · Free
Doing More with What You Know: An Introduction to Knowledge Mobilization for Newcomer-Serving Professionals
Speaker: Sarah Pinder, Knowledge Broker, Knowledge Institute, for Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions
Watch Now!English · 1 hour · Free
Mental Distress and Resettlement: Improving RAPs Model of Service for Clients in Mental Distress
Royal College members receive 0.5 Continuing Education credits for watching this webinar. CCHL members receive 0.5 MOC II credits for watching this webinar. CPA members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for watching this webinar.
Speakers: Paulysha De Gannes, Assistant Manager, CAMH · Mercedes Sobers, Research Coordinator, CAMH · Jack Williams, Research Analyst, CAMH
Watch Now!English · 1 hour · Free
Unveiling the Invisible: Exploring Intersections in Child Welfare and Immigration
Speakers: Liz Okai, Manager, CWICE - Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence · Danielle Ungara, Manager, CWICE - Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence
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CAMH: Trauma and Resilience in Refugees – A Clinical Approach
English · 1 hour · Free
Most refugees experience difficult and traumatic events in their pre migration context and their response to these trauma may vary. However, as service providers we often assume that any and all distress a refugee faces in Canada stems from the trauma that led them to flee their home country. In fact, most refugees report that settling and building a new life here is even more difficult and stressful than past events. Learning to recognize and decode these complex communications of suffering, capacity and need, is especially difficult when we have no understanding of the refugee’s geopolitical and culture context. This talk will think beyond post traumatic stress disorder to address the need to more accurately understand the causes and mitigation of individual refugee’s distress. Underpinning these ideas is the recognition that refugees are extraordinarily resilient. We will explore how to recognize this clinically and optimize and enhance service delivery as a result, noting the importance of cultural competence and cultural humility, on an individual and systemic level.
Speaker: Clare Pain MD, MSc., FRCPC., D.Sc (Hons) Addis Ababa University (AAU), Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto (UofT), and psychoanalyst. Staff psychiatrist at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto.
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Featured Member
Rola El Moubadder is the Program Manager at CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses (CARE Centre ), with a career spanning over 27 years in nursing. Her journey commenced when she gained her bachelor’s degree in science and nursing at the American University of Beirut in 1995, after which she served as a bedside nurse from 1995 to 1999, cultivating a deep understanding of the nuances involved in delivering high-quality healthcare.
Featured Organization
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.
Navigation Network
N4 meets regularly with stakeholder organizations to ensure we understand and support their efforts to promote equity for newcomers. Here are the latest organizations we have met with:
- Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON
- Health Canada
- Association of International Medical Graduates of BC, Vancouver, BC
- Health Sciences Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
- North York General, North York, ON
Want to meet with N4 to discuss your organization? Book a virtual meeting with N4.
ITPO Specialist ITP Survey
This 10-question survey aims to gather information regarding ITPs with areas of specialty in order to gain insight for recommendations on system-level changes needed to incorporate well-experienced ITPs into the system
New N4 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.
Calgary, AB · Cape Breton, NS · Edmonton, AB · Edmundston, NB · Halifax, NS · Moncton, NB · New Westminster, BC · Ottawa, ON · Peterborough, ON · Red Deer, AB · Regina, SK · Saskatoon, SK · Scarborough, ON · Toronto, ON · Vancouver, BC · Vaughan, BC · Waterloo, ON · Winnipeg, MB
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Fourth Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health: Addressing Social Determinants of Health Among Refugees and Migrants
This year, the event will be hybrid, live streamed from Dakar, Senegal, from November 27th to December 1st, 2023, between 12:00-1:30 PM CET.
Are you an Internationally Educated Nurse?
World Education Services (WES) is conducting a survey of internationally educated nurses in Ontario to better understand how many IENs living in Ontario are not registered or practicing in the province, and to better understand their employment experiences.
News Feed
IRCC: The Government of Canada Funds Research on Francophone Immigration
Health ministers from across the country wrapped up two days of meetings in Charlottetown Thursday... Read MoreRBC: Canada Needs a Lot More Immigrants, Almost Double the Current Rate in the Long Run
An economic update from the Royal Bank of Canada says the federal government is doing the right thing... Read MoreIRCC: National Call for Proposals 2024 Opens for Settlement and Resettlement Assistance Programs
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is committed to providing world-class support... Read MoreIRCC: 2023 Consultations on Immigration Levels – Final Report
Every year, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) engages with a broad range of stakeholders... Read MoreWould You Like to Feature Your News Here? Share the news of your organization's work with newcomers and we will feature it here and on the N4 website.
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What Members Say About N4
"I am absolutely sure that this program will help in my professional growth, because I have qualified mentors and a program that gives a broader view from the inside of the Canadian health care system."
Mykola Melnik, Internationally Trained Physician (ITP) Participant in the N4/SPU IEHPs Online Program
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