Positive sponsors experiences – Telling the stories and sharing the success
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Online event
Join our Roundtable hosted by Allies for Refugee Integration (ARI) to share successful stories of sponsorship and ways to promote success.
About this event
Allies for Refugee Integration (ARI) Roundtables are informal spaces where the sponsorship and settlement community can routinely come together to share information, identify challenges and solutions, and build understanding on settlement-sponsor collaboration in Ontario.
In this Roundtable we will:
Share positive examples of sponsorship experiences and success stories, as well as positive examples of sponsors and settlement organizations working together to support newcomers.
Learn more about how we can promote the success of private sponsors and share these wonderful stories.
Discuss how settlement organizations and sponsorship agreement holders can further contribute to the success of private sponsors and the value of connecting sponsors together to share their stories.
About Allies for Refugee Integration
Allies for Refugee Integration (Part 1) was a project led by the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigration, in partnership with Refugee 613, from 2018-2021 funded by IRCC, Service Delivery Improvement. To learn more, visit: Allies in Refugee Integration | OCASI. To learn more: https://ocasi.org/allies-refugee-integration
Allies for Refugee Integration (Part 2) builds on this previous project and is funded by IRCC to run from October 2021- March 2025 to provide opportunities for capacity building and knowledge exchange so that settlement agencies and sponsor groups can deliver responsive and coordinated settlement and community services for privately sponsored refugees.
This new phase of ARI will have two main activities:
Settlement-Sponsor Knowledge Exchange Opportunities: ARI will host two roundtables and three webinars each year that bring settlement and sponsor communities to exchange information and continue to learn how to work better together.
Ambassador Agencies: ARI will be recruiting two pairs of SPO-SAHs each fiscal year and supporting them for 10 months to implement an element of the promising practices identified and piloted by ARI; Intentional Connection & Knowledge Exchange. Activities will be evaluated and lessons learned shared in the sector.
