1. NATIONAL SETTLEMENT SECTOR COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE (CoP)
TNLIP
Pre & Post Arrival Services’ Connection
Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants
Date: March 28, 2019
Location: The Peoples Church
North York, ON

2. Agenda Introduction Vision Vision Comes to Life Soft Launch March 27th
Community Highlights
The Community
Please Join Us!

3. Introduction National, bilingual online community
Community for everyone who serves immigrants and refugees
Community built for the sector and by the sector
Community where everyone can connect, learn, share, and collaborate
All community members are equals and can shape their own engagement
Opportunity to create knowledge and share best practices, programs, research and resources that have a direct impact upon helping newcomers to successfully settle in their new homeland
Community will grow and evolve for all members and by all members

4. Vision
Connects settlement practitioners who may never come into contact otherwise
Provides a shared context for practitioners to communicate and share information
Enables dialogue between people who have an interest in solving the same or similar problems.
Stimulates learning
Captures and diffuses existing knowledge
Introduces collaborative processes and encourages the free flow of ideas and information.
Helps people organize around issues
Generates new knowledge

5. Vision Comes to Life MEET SettleNet.org / Réseau-Etab.orgéé

6. Soft Launch - March 27th

7. A Truly Nationwide Innovation

8. Community Highlights A community in which:
Settlement practitioners, leaders and professionals can connect, share, collaborate, and learn, thereby building their knowledge and skills capacity with a focus on improving services
Provision of consistent, innovative, and coordinated services can be facilitated
Members collect, disseminate, and find the tools they need to do their job effectively

9. Community Highlights
A community that will live and grow for and by all who are serving immigrants and refugees to:
Access best-practice information and share resources on a wide variety of settlement topics
Locate the latest and most useful guides, tools, and research related to serving newcomers
Find up-to-date sector news and events
Connect settlement practitioners who might not otherwise have the opportunity to interact
Enable dialogue among peers to explore new possibilities in order to deepen their knowledge and expertise and to learn how to do things better

10. Community Highlights
A community offering lifelong learning through self-learning, collaborative learning, the sharing of knowledge and experience, and by crowd-sourcing new ideas:
Existing webinars and E-Learning courses
Continually updated webinar offerings
Assessment tools to identify gaps in core competencies.
Curated lists of topic and audience-specific resource and research.
Links to relevant online learning opportunities.

11. Community Highlights: Log-in

12. Community Highlights: Latest Activity

13. Community Highlights: Profile

14. Community Highlights: Organizations

15. Community Highlights: Groups

16. Community Highlights: Events & News

17. Community Highlights: PD

18. Community Highlights: Library

19. Community Highlights: Search

20. The Community IRCC Multi-Service Organizations
Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs)
Faith-Based Organizations
Private Sponsors
Disability-Focused Organizations
Translation & Interpretation
Community Information
Environmental Organizations
Academia
Researchers
Arts & Culture
Human/Refugee Rights
Entrepreneurs
Multi-Service Organizations
Ethno-Specific Organizations
Employment Organizations
Women’s Organizations
Francophone Organizations
Multicultural
Organizations/ Councils
Community Health
Social Justice
Refugee Services
Community & Legal Clinics
Provincial Umbrella Organizations
Canada Council for Refugees
Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAHs)

21. PLEASE JOIN US! For the Immigrants and Refugees we Serve
Become a member!
Connect your organization!
Become a Champion!
CONNECT, LEARN, SHARE & GROW

22. Thank You
Merci