About the Webinar

This webinar will provide frontline workers with information on how to serve refugee women who flee gender-based violence and how to establish safety and stabilization while re-settling in Canada. Increased vulnerability due to precarious status, struggling to get basic needs met and other post-migration stressors particularly during the pandemic can contribute to emotional distress. By the end of this workshop, participants will learn skills and strategies to increase emotional safety through trauma-informed practices, apply practical techniques to improve emotional regulation through a supportive and trusting working relationship, and identify when to refer to health care professionals and additional community supports.

About CAMH's New Beginnings Clinic

In March 2016, CAMH launched a refugee mental health and wellness service called the New Beginnings Clinic. While this service was developed in response to the resettlement surge of Syrian people, services are not restricted to this group and will be available to refugees in their first two years in Toronto. The New Beginnings Clinic provides psychiatric consultation and brief culturally sensitive interventions to newly arrived refugees, as well as case consultation for care providers.

About this series

#Strongerthanyouthink Series aims at providing capacity building workshops for service providers, faith-based groups and employers to be better equipped to respond to disclosures of gender-based violence in the newcomer community. While gender-based violence happens to all communities at a similar rate, we recognize that refugee and immigrant women face particular barriers that make it more difficult for them to get support. Furthermore, we recognize the shifting challenges presented by COVID-19 to victims of gender based violence and service providers. It is our aim that this webinar series update the sector on the changing landscape and better equip attendants on how to deal with disclosures of gender-based violence for newcomer communities.

This event will NOT be recorded.

About WAVAG

Women Against Violence is an Action Group of the Toronto West Local Immigration Partnership (TWLIP) that aims to promote the message that gender-based violence is everyone’s issue to address. The Action Group supports local community organizations in enhancing knowledge and building capacity to address this issue.

Watch the #StrongerThanYouThink video using the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdWaX5b-C4