| August 17, 2010 | ||
| 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm |
The number of immigrant and refugee students in Edmonton Public Schools has tripled in the last five years and continues to rise. So, thanks to Janina for sending along news of an Cultural Comptency and Learning event the Multicultural Coalition is putting on in August: “How to Connect with Immigrant and Refugee Communities: the Multicultural Coalition Experience”
- Tuesday August 17th from 9am (registration) 9.30 – 4pm (lunch provided) at First Christian Reform Church 10956, 96 street (free parking on street).
- Cost $120 (a fundraiser for community projects).
- Please RSVP by August 6th to Humza at 423-1973 or makhdoom.coalition@gmail.com
The day is intended for staff, board members & volunteers of: Non-profit agencies, Social Service Agencies, Community Leagues. AND for Government, Municipal Policy & Research Staff, Community Social Workers Funders & Funding Agencies
This workshop will include:
- Cultural Competency Workshop in context of the realities of Edmonton’s own ethnocultural communities
- Understand who the emerging immigrant and refugee cultural communities are in Edmonton and how to connect with them
- Coordinated opportunity to meet & build relationships with immigrant and refugee community leaders in attendance
- Research results from Coalition’s “Community Research on the Experience of Ethnocultural Communities in Supporting Newcomers” to be shared. (You can read the full report here http://www.multiculturalcoalition.ca/Final%20Research%20Report_April%2019%202010.pdf )
