January 16 - 31, 2019
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Pacific Immigrant Resources Society Selected to Improve
Settlement Services for Newcomers in Vancouver
Vancouver, B.C.—Immigration,
Refugees and Citizenship Canada
(IRCC) works with many partners in the
delivery of services to newcomers to
Canada, and supports their integration
into Canadian communities. IRCC
is actively working to improve these
settlement services through the
Service
Delivery
Improvements
funding stream and will be providing
funding of $1,157,694 to Pacific
Immigrant Resources Society (PIRS)
to help deliver these important
services.
Joe Peschisolido, Member of
Parliament for Steveston—Richmond
East, made the announcement
on behalf of the Honourable
Ahmed Hussen, Minister of
Immigration, Refugees
and Citizenship.
PIRS will test
and
develop
an
innovative childcare
service delivery model
which will provide
newcomer
women
with
employment
and at the same
time support service
provider organizations
in BC who provide
short-term
onsite
childcare as part of
their support services.
If successful, this project has
a strong potential to scale
up to a national level. It also
provides an opportunity to
partner with traditional and
non-traditional stakeholders,
such as entrepreneurs and
designers, as part of the
“hack-a-thon” event PIRS is
hosting to generate design
ideas.
IRCC’s Service Delivery
Improvement Fund is a
dedicated funding stream
of over $30 million per
year, devoted to service
delivery improvement, innovation
and experimentation to continue to
find better ways to deliver services
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to newcomers, meet the needs of
newcomer clients and support the
integration process.