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BCIFV PROJECTS
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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.
This page last updated February 22, 2015.
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