Language Access Day - Virtual Panel Discussion

Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership

This event is a virtual panel discussion focusing on the importance of equitable language access to community programs and services.

The Windsor Essex Local Immigration Partnership, in partnership with the Waterloo Region Immigration Partnership and the Hamilton Immigration Partnership Council, would like to invite you to join us for a virtual panel discussion centered on the importance of equitable language access to community programs and services.This event will provide an opportunity for attendees to build on their understanding of equitable language access and how to achieve higher language access in their organization's programs and services.Increased value to the many community services and programs could be added through equitable language access. Our speakers will discuss the benefits of equitable language access in their respective sectors.About the speakers:Yusuf Al-Harazi is currently serving as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Advisor at Niagara Region. In this capacity, he is responsible for the implementation of the five year DEI Action Plan which includes components such as cultural humility training and inclusive communication. In a previous role with the Niagara Folk Arts Multicultural Centre, Yusuf has worked with diverse newcomer and immigrant populations, where he has been instrumental in creating safe spaces and facilitating access to various programs and services from an equity and inclusive language lens. He is also a former peer champion through OCASI's gender-based violence campaign. Yusuf will be speaking on the importance of language access for newcomers facing Gender-Based Violence, and providing strategies for successful implementation.Jawid Noor, Law student and an accredited law interpreter will be providing the perspective of newcomers in the judicial system and the value of language access for newcomers in the legal system.Christine Kouri, BScN, MHA, is the Manager for Health Equity and Diversity for CHEO (Canada's capital's pediatric healthcare centre). In this role, she is overseeing a 3 year federally funded project to develop a Canadian Newcomer Navigator Network, in addition to leading special projects at CHEO to advance its health equity efforts, including being CHEO's lead for its EDI Task Force. Christine will be providing perspective of language access through the healthcare lens as well as speak on the National Newcomer Integration Network's (N4) position paper to help provide audience members research to base their future and continued inclusion of language access resources in their institutions.Fauzia Baig is the Region of Waterloo's first Director of Diversity, Equity &amp; Inclusion board member of the Coalition of Muslim Women, and the Co-Chair on the Waterloo Region's Mayor’s Task Force for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Fauzia's focus on diversity in institutions such as the Region of Waterloo will provide perspective on the importance of language access in from a Municipal lens. She will discuss her experience in her key role working alongside staff and community leaders to improve equity and innovate the way the Waterloo Region works with newcomer communities.Charlotte LeFrank is an Educator and Consultant and Equity Specialist with the Windsor-Essex Children's Aid Society. Her work advocating the importance of service delivery in first language through the use of WE Speak has been vital to language access in the Windsor-Essex community. Sue Connell is the Program Manager, Health Strategy &amp; Health Equity Program at City of Hamilton-Public Health Services. Sue will be discussing the Hamilton Public Health Service's regular use of interpretation services and how it has helped newcomers in the Hamilton community.

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