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BCIFV PROJECTS

• A Guide for Service Providers: Assisting Immigrant and Refugee Women Abused by Their Sponsors
  
  This 59-page guide is written for service providers working with any client who: is an immigrant or refugee woman; has been sponsored to come to Canada by a partner/finance/spouse under the family class sponsorship guidelines; is experiencing abuse by her sponsor; and wants to separate from her sponsor but is at risk of deportation.
  
  The Institute will be offering a series of free one day workshops for service providers based on the material in this booklet. For more information, contact Tracey Moropito.
  
  This workshop is for service providers working with any client who:
  
  
  • is an immigrant or refugee woman;
  • has been sponsored to come to Canada by a partner/fiance/spouse under the family class sponsorship guidelines;
  • is experiencing abuse by her sponsor; and
  • wants to separate from her sponsor but is at risk of deportation.

  
  This project was funded by the BC Ministry of Multiculturalism and Immigration through its Anti-Racism and Multiculturalism Program.
  

• Child Discipline versus Child Abuse in Canada: A Resource for ESL Teachers and Their Students Project
  
  The BC Institute Against Family Violence, on behalf of its project partners, has received a grant from Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism Program to provide information to new immigrant parents.
  
  Project Description
  The purpose of the Project is to provide adult ESL teachers and their students across Canada with information and resources to address parenting and discipline issues that arise in newcomer families living in Canada, including legally accurate information about laws relating to child discipline and child abuse.
  
  The long-term objectives of the Project are to ensure that ESL teachers and their students are able to:
  
  
  • identify issues relating to the stresses faced by newcomer parents and their children while settling in Canada
  • discuss the diversity in the structure and cultural norms of Canadian families relating to parenting expectations and practices
  • understand the prevailing 'Canadian' view of child discipline in light of differences in expectations and practices, including the continuum between discipline and abuse
  • receive accurate information on current laws relating to child discipline and child abuse
  • apply their understanding to three scenarios presented to the class
  • know where and how to access parenting resources in their community

  An evaluation of the use, impact and effectiveness of this educational project will commence in the fall of 2002. The evaluation will consist of an online survey and will involve ESL teachers across Canada who have used the video and resource material in their classrooms. For more information about the evaluation please contact [email protected]

  
  For more information on this project please contact Tracey Moropito at 604-669-7055 or email her.