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IEHP Resource Hub
The N4 IEHP Resource Hub serves as a comprehensive platform for Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals (IEHPs) and those who support them. It provides a wealth of resources to facilitate the successful integration of IEHPs into the Canadian health workforce.
IEHP Resource Hub
N4 has Created Visual Pathways to Licensure for ITPs (IMGs)
IEHP Resource Hub
N4 has Created a Visual Pathway to Licensure for IENs
Featured Webinar
Empowering Refugee Claimant Youth to Navigate Healthcare in Canada
Royal College members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for attending this webinar. CPA members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for attending this webinar.
In this webinar, participants will learn about the experiences of refugee claimant youth and their families with navigating healthcare in Canada and hear about how participatory research methods and co-design can be used to collaboratively develop tools that are designed by youth, for youth, to improve access to care.
Speaker: Dr. Shazeen Suleman, Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University
May 15 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
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Navigating the Ontario Healthcare System Toolkit
A toolkit created for youth by youth
The Navigating the Ontario Healthcare System toolkit is a youth-driven resource tailored for newcomers to Canada settling in Ontario. It is meant to help youth who have newly come to Canada and are living in Ontario understand how to get healthcare.
Upcoming Webinars
May 29 · 1 PM EST · English · 1 hour · Free
Culturally Specific Mental Health Models
Royal College members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for attending this webinar. CPA members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for attending this webinar.
Speaker: Abrar Mechmechia, Founder & CEO, Mental Health Counselor, ABRAR Trauma and Mental Health Services · Adanech Sahilie, Executive Director, Immigrant Outreach Society (IOS)
Register NowJune 5 · 1 PM EST · French · 1 hour · Free · Webinar
Recruitment and Retention Practices for Internationally Educated Nurses
Presented by Hôpital Monfort
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All of our past webinars are recorded and available for free to view at any time on our website.
English · 1 hour · Free
N4 IEHP Resource Hub: Tools and Resources to Support Optimal Employment of Internationally Educated Healthcare Professionals
Speakers: Christine Kouri, Director, N4 · Michelle Quinlan, Team Lead, Knowledge Generation and Mobilization, N4 · Catherine Penney, Quality Improvement Specialist, N4
Watch Now!English · 1 hour · Free
Youth Settlement in Action: How Sectors Can Build their Capacity to Support Newcomer Youth
CCHL members receive 0.5 MOC II credits for watching this webinar. CPA members receive 1 Continuing Education credit for watching this webinar.
Speakers: Kate McDougall, Regional Youth Liaison, WRAPCAP project, Centre for Newcomers · Carolee Israel Turner, Local and Regional Partnership Coordinator, WRAPCAP project, Centre for Newcomers
Watch Now!English · 1 hour · Free
Unveiling the Invisible: Exploring Intersections in Child Welfare and Immigration
Speakers: Liz Okai, Manager, CWICE - Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence · Danielle Ungara, Manager, CWICE - Child Welfare Immigration Centre of Excellence
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Hope Webinar Series
Watch N4's exclusive webinar series by Dr. Bianca Briciu and explore the intersection of immigration challenges and transformative learning, discovering pathways to recover hope and agency.
Achieving Vaccine Equity for Children and Youth
Webinar · English · 1 hour · Free
Join us for an engaging webinar focused on addressing vaccine hesitancy within newcomer communities, with actionable insights for healthcare providers. We'll kick off with an overview of the National Newcomer Navigation Network (N4) and its impactful outreach efforts, setting the stage for a deep dive into the nuances of accessibility, barriers, and facilitators to vaccination in equity-deserving communities, particularly among families who are new to Canada.
Speakers: Dr. Cora Constantinescu, Pediatric Infectious Disease, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary · Sahar Zohni Manager Operations, Planning & Performance, N4 (National Newcomer Navigation Network) · Dr. Jia Hu, CEO & Founder, 19 To Zero, Corporate Medical Director and Physician, Cleveland Clinic
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Featured Member
Dr. Michaël Séguin is an assistant professor at Saint Paul University and director of the School of Leadership, Ecology and Equity in Ottawa. Trained as a sociologist of ethnic relations, his expertise lies in crafting policies and strategies to nurture Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within not-for-profit organizations, including settlement agencies and institutions of higher education.
Featured Organization
ABRAR Trauma and Mental Health Services is dedicated to providing affordable, trauma-informed, art-based, community-based, and culturally competent mental support for diverse newcomers, immigrants, and refugee populations (displaced populations). Services are delivered by professionals with lived experiences with the population served, in their first languages. Our services primarily include affordable and free therapy (counselling), support groups, art therapy, mental health and trauma healing projects, art and mental health initiatives, psycho-educational workshops, and raising awareness to combat stigma surrounding mental health.
N4 Outreach and Partners
N4 meets regularly with stakeholder organizations to ensure we understand and support their efforts to promote equity for newcomers. Here are the latest organizations we have met with:
- Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, ON
- SHERPA University Institute, Montreal, QC
- AMSSA, Burnaby, BC
- Medical Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON
- Newcomer Health Hub, Ottawa, ON
Want to meet with N4 to discuss your organization? Book a virtual meeting with N4.
Data Snapshot
Each month, N4 provides a visual data snapshot of key quantitative data sets in a simple and useable formats. Data snapshots help members make evidence-based decisions using timely and relevant sources of information.
Recent Data Snapshot:
Newcomer Health Equity: Children and Youth, Vaccination, Mental HealthSuggest a Data Snapshot research topic.
New N4 Members
Health and social service professionals across Canada join N4 to ensure equity for our newcomers. Here's some of the cities where our newest members have joined from.
Calgary, AB · Edmonton, AB · Greater Sudbury, ON · Halifax, NS · Hamilton, ON · London, ON · Mississauga, ON · Moose Jaw, SK · Nanaimo, BC · Niagara Falls, ON · North York, ON · Peterborough, ON · Red Deer, AB · Scarborough, ON · St. Catharines, ON · Sudbury, ON · Sydney, NS · Toronto, ON · Vancouver, BC · Vaughan, ON · Winnipeg, MB
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CBC: Immigration minister responds to critics over plan to detain migrants in penitentiaries
Immigration Minister Marc Miller confirmed to Radio-Canada that the federal government will be using its penitentiaries to hold... Read MoreCTV News: Permanent immigration levels 'in the right place': Fraser
Housing Minister and former immigration minister Sean Fraser says Canada’s permanent residency numbers are “in the right place.”... Read MoreGlobal News: Quebec premier threatens referendum on immigration powers, calls out Trudeaus
Quebec Premier François Legault is calling on Ottawa to act, saying he hasn’t ruled out holding a referendum on immigration powers... Read MoreGlobal News: Canadian research firm releases survey results highlighting newcomer challenges
HA new study is highlighting some of the challenges newcomers continue to face when immigrating to Canada... Read MoreWould You Like to Feature Your News Here? Share the news of your organization's work with newcomers and we will feature it here and on the N4 website.
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