2023
| Symposium+: Fostering Canadian Integration for IEHPs: From Learning to Action |
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In response to the underutilization and de-skilling of immigrants in health-related occupations in Canada, Saint Paul University has started a collaboration with the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) in 2022 to design and deliver an on-line professional program to support the integration of internationally educated health care professionals into the Canadian healthcare system. Read More pp.41-45 |
| OHA: Tools for Employers to Promote Workplace Equity for International Experience |
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Over the past year, N4 undertook a co-design process with health care employers across Canada's geography and healthcare sectors, including acute care, community health, and long-term care. The process included the voices and participation of those with lived experience as IEHPs seeking employment in Canada. As a result of this work, N4 has produced an array of tools to support the recruitment and retention of internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) into Canadian health care organizations including a report, toolkit and checklist. |
| CPS: Access to appropriate interpretation is essential for the health of children |
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With 20% of Canadians reporting a mother tongue other than English or French, it is not uncommon for health professionals and patients to be proficient in different languages. When a physician and patient cannot properly communicate, there is potential for misunderstanding, which can lead to poor clinical outcomes and hospital readmission. Professional interpretation services are associated with improved communication, health care use, clinical outcomes, and satisfaction with care. |
| SPU: Fostering Canadian Integration for Internationally Educated Health Professionals (IEHPs): From Learning to Action |
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Saint Paul University’s Institute for Transformative Leadership, in partnership with the National Newcomer Navigation Network - N4, has developed this new program to help Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals (IEHPs) overcome barriers to finding healthcare jobs in Canada. |
2022
| IRCC: Strategy to Expand Transitions to Permanent Residency - Foreign Qualification Recognition Process Improvements |
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IRCC is focused on improving newcomers’ access to information on foreign qualification recognition and connecting newcomers to federal and provincial or territorial programming. As part of this work, the Department is funding two pilot projects under the Service Delivery Improvement fund that are testing approaches to enhance support and improve access to resources for internationally educated newcomers within the health care sector, with... Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to address accreditation challenges experienced by internationally educated health care professionals (IEHP)... |
| OHA: Supporting Newcomers: A Cornerstone of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Efforts in Healthcare |
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One in five Canadians was born outside Canada and we welcome over 400,000 newcomers every year as part of our economic strategy for growth, and our contribution towards providing a safe haven to refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Yet newcomers face numerous barriers to health equity – this has been highlighted most recently through their disproportionate impact by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| CPA: Providing Opportunities to Support Equity |
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Canada welcomes over 400,000 newcomers every year. Immigrants are a key economic strategy for Canada’s growth, and we continue to offer a safe haven to refugees fleeing conflict and persecution. Newcomers face numerous barriers to health equity – this was highlighted through their disproportionate impact by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| SPU: New Study Explores EDI Practices in Grassroots Organizations |
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Equity, diversity and inclusion (commonly referred to as EDI) are principles that are becoming increasingly important in workplaces across all sectors. A new research project by Saint Paul University researchers seeks to explore the implementation of EDI in grassroots organizations. |
| SPU: Saint Paul University Announces New Program to Help Internationally Educated Health Professionals Integrate into Canadian Job Market |
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Saint Paul University’s Institute for Transformative Leadership is proud to announce a new program that seeks to help internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs). |
| The Catholic Register: Saint Paul’s boosts immigrant health workers over barriers |
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Like many internationally trained health-care professionals who immigrate to Canada, Dr. Sahar Zohni struggled to find a clear pathway into the Canadian medical system. |
| Research Money Inc: National network helping skilled immigrant health care professionals practise in Canada |
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The underutilization of skilled immigrants is costing Canada more than $11 billion a year and nowhere is this more striking than in Canada’s health care sector. |
| CBC Radio-Canada: Le défi d’intégrer les professionnels de la santé formés à l’étranger |
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La coordinatrice de l'Institut de leadership transformatif de l'Université St-Paul, Gabrielle Dupuis, identifie des pistes de solutions pour favoriser l'intégration dans le système de santé des professionnels formés à l'étranger, (French) |
| Academia Group Top Ten: SPU announces program to support IEHP integrating into job market |
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Saint Paul University's Institute for Transformative Leadership has partnered with the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) to launch a new program that will help internationally educated health professionals (IEHPs) find work in Canada’s health care sector. |
| CBC Radio‑Canada: Recognition of prior learning and skills of immigrants |
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Canada is experiencing a labour shortage in all fields, including health care. While nearly a quarter of Canada's health care professionals are immigrants, the path to recognition of their degrees and training is far from smooth. Christine Kouri, Manager of Health Equity and Diversity at CHEO (Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario), discusses the importance of recognizing international education as a way forward to address this shortage. (French) |
| IRCC: Expanded National Newcomer Navigation Network to help internationally educated health care professionals |
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Building on the success of the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s (CHEO’s) National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4), Marie-France Lalonde, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, today announced close to $1.5 million to promote sector collaboration and information sharing of foreign qualification and credential recognition requirements for internationally educated health care professionals. |
| CHEO: Government of Canada helping connect international health professionals with jobs in their field |
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An announcement at CHEO today confirmed an additional $1.5 million in funding from Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), and underscored that newcomers are critical to Canada’s labour force. Many are highly skilled and educated in health care, but face barriers to contributing fully to Canada’s health systems. At the same time, existing labour shortages in health care have been made worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
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Ottawa Citizen: Feds increase funding for program helping internationally trained health professionals get certified |
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The federal government is extending funding for the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4), a program that aims to help newcomers to Canada navigate social and medical services, MP Marie-France Lalonde announced at a press conference outside CHEO Monday. |
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CIC News: Canada to support internationally educated health professionals |
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The parliamentary secretary to Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced nearly $1.5 million in funding to help newcomers work in the Canadian health sector faster. The funds are intended to promote collaboration and information sharing in the health sector. Specifically, to help internationally educated health care professionals get their credentials recognized faster. |
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Francopresse: Filling the labor shortage in a "discouraging" system |
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IRCC will invest $1.5 million in an effort to better guide internationally educated health professionals in their job search. This sectoral support is intended to address the health workforce shortage that has been crying out for help for several years. (French) |
2021
| Ottawa Citizen: Saint Paul University: Ottawa’s engaged, human, open and spiritual university is a hidden gem |
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Contrary to popular belief, Saint Paul University is not solely a religious institution. For example, while students are learning to look within and beyond themselves in classes taught at the university, elsewhere on the Ottawa campus, local seniors are exchanging ideas at a workshop hosted by the Centre for Aging and Community...Off campus, a family of new Canadians is benefiting from the services of one of the many recent graduates of the National Newcomer Navigation Network program, designed to help workers in hospital settings and community centres work effectively with new Canadians. |
| Saint-Paul University: When professionalism and empathy are rolled into one |
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Last December, nurse Renette Amirault-Laing, who coordinates bilingual services at IWK Health Centre in Halifax, received her Certificate in Ethics and Contemporary Social Issues: Immigration and Integration from Saint Paul University. Renette is one of the first 30 people from across Canada to receive this certificate. Thanks to the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4), she had the courage to return to school after a 23-year absence from university in order to improve her ability to help immigrants navigate hospital services — an issue that is close to her heart. |
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2020
| Carleton University: Virtual International Internships: Travelling the Globe while Staying Home |
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In a year beset with travel cancellations, third-year Carleton student Ida Harkness has lost her study abroad opportunity in India that was to begin in January 2021. Harkness’ semester abroad was part of the International Experience Requirement (IER), a requisite to graduate from Carleton’s Bachelor of Global and International Studies (BGInS) program. “I was geared up and totally focused on going abroad in January, then all of this happened, and I had to pull out my application,” says Harkness. December 2020 | Read more |
| Carleton University: Carleton Announces Student Partnership with the National Newcomer Navigation Network |
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Carleton University students have partnered with the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) as e-interns on projects aimed towards supporting professionals who provide services to new Canadians. The collaboration involves 21 students from the Global and International Group Project class. The students will work as e-interns, alongside a supervisor from N4, a national network funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and hosted by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), designed to help and connect professionals who provide important services to newcomers. This collaboration provides a space where service providers can learn and communicate about how to best help new Canadians navigate the health and social services systems. November 26, 2020 | Read more |
| Saint Paul University: SPU Partners with CHEO to Deliver New Education Program for Professionals Who Support Newcomers to Canada |
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The School of Ethics, Social Justice and Public Service has partnered with the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to develop the new National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) Online Program. “This program is in the spirit of what Saint Paul University does best: building knowledge and competencies from the humanities and social sciences for use in practical settings where the human touch is essential,” said Matthew McLennan, associate professor at Saint Paul University and academic partner of the N4 Online Program. “We have been given a wonderful opportunity by our partners at CHEO to make our work impactful.” |
2019
| Ottawa Citizen: CHEO leading national program to help newcomers navigate pediatric healthcare |
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Immigration officials have picked the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario to create a new national network to help newcomers to Canada overcome linguistic and cultural hurdles to care and understand our health system. May 30, 2019 | Read more |
| IRCC: CHEO will create a National Navigator Network to help newcomers |
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Canada is actively working with many partners to improve the accessibility and quality of settlement services delivered to newcomers across Canada. Settlement services help newcomers integrate into Canadian communities. The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) is launching a new project focusing on breaking down barriers faced by newcomers. This includes linguistic and cultural hurdles to accessing health care, as well as helping newcomers learn about Canada’s universal health-care system. May 30, 2019 | Read more |