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The Centre for Newcomers services for sexually and gender diverse newcomers grew from one person to a diverse team providing settlement services, mental health services, income support, career development, refugee coaching, and professional development training. The centre learned from its LGBTQ2S+ experience to replicate services more broadly to vulnerable persons and address COVID-19 pandemic issues. Its success and uniqueness was the basis for also hosting the National LGBTQ+ Guidelines project now involving participants from all regions of Canada. The presentation will give key programmatic factors and success data that can be replicated in other organizations.
Learning objectives
- Refugee services for sexually and gender diverse newcomers
- LGBTQI+ services and development of the National LGBTQ+ Guidelines Project
- Addressing COVID-19 Pandemic Issues and service provision
Audience
Newcomer-serving professionals in Health and Settlement sectors
About the speaker
Kelly Ernst, PhD is the Vice President, Vulnerable Populations at Centre for Newcomers in Calgary, Alberta. He has a PhD in Educational Psychology. Kelly has created numerous projects at the Centre for Newcomers. In his spare time, he is co-founder and President of the End of the Rainbow Foundation. He was also a co-founder of a number of not-for-profit organizations. He is a winner of the 2020 Stars of Alberta Volunteer Award for his life-long volunteering. As a human rights and civil liberties advocate, he was a recipient the Alberta Civil Liberties Human Rights Award for his work on Alberta’s Bill 10 as Chairperson of the Public Consultation of Gay-Straight Alliances in Alberta Schools. He sits on committees nationally and locally advocating for vulnerable people.
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