The Newcomers List of Resources For New Immigrants to Toronno
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All of the resources we can find to help newcomers to the city of Toronto settle in and get to normalcy as fast as possible.
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Toronto Early Childhood and Family Resource System: helps immigrants with families find specialized intervention services, helpful programs for children, and health and community resources.
Centre for Information and Community Services: provides a wide range of settlement services, including early childhood programs and activities for immigrant children and youth.
For Youth Initiative: provides interpreter and translation services, legal assistance, and educational assistance.
Ralph Chiodo Family Immigrant Reception Centre: offers resources ranging from temporary accommodation, initial settlement services, and child care to housing services and art therapy for children.
Rexdale Women's Centre: provides services such as general information, job-related services, translation, interpretation, connection to community resources, solution-focused counselling, orientation, and help obtaining government documents and services.
WoodGreen: provides services such as leisure and recreational activities, self-help networks, youth programs, counselling, settlement courses, mentorship, and newcomer volunteer programs.
Working Women Community Centre: provides services like advocacy, interpreting, paperwork, referrals, orientation, supportive counselling, and periodic escorts.
YMCA of Greater Toronto Youth Program: offers services and information on education, training, and language classes.
YMCA of Greater Toronto Child Care Program: provides child care services while parents pursue their careers or education
Employment Resources
ACCES Employment: helps many new immigrants who are facing employment barriers enter the Canadian job market.
Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council (TRIEC) Mentoring Partnership: provides new immigrants in the City of Toronto and other regions, such as Halton, Peel, and York, with occupation-specific mentoring.
JVS Toronto: partners with the government and business sectors to help people succeed at school, work, and life.
YMCA of Greater Toronto Immigrant Services: provides services in nearly 60 languages to support the settlement, language skills, and career development of immigrants.
City of Toronto: supports and provides employment-related services for newcomers seeking work.
COSTI: helps clients with their job needs by providing information and referrals to community resources, such as trade/professional certification or academic credential recognition.
makingtheMove: provides career coaching to skilled African immigrants in Canada. They also help connect newcomers to industry leaders through their networking events.
Career Edge: connects Canadian employers to job seekers through a paid internship model. A great way to bypass the infamous “Canadian experience” barrier.
Healthcare Resources
Access Alliance: offers a variety of services and initiatives, with an emphasis on health care, to immigrants and refugees residing in the City of Toronto..
Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture: provides activities for kids and young people, settlement services, and mental health care.
Canadian Centre for Refugee and Immigrant Health Care: provides humanitarian medical treatment to those who have newly arrived in Canada and are otherwise uninsured.
For Youth Initiative: also provide services like accessing health care.
Punjabi Community Health Services: offers services such as health and mental health information, orientation, translation and interpretation, counselling, and referral services.
YMCA of Greater Toronto Health and Fitness Programs: provides services and information on health and fitness.
Financial Literacy Resources
Access Alliance Financial Literacy Program: provides one-on-one counseling, information workshops, tools and resources, and addresses systemic problems facing marginalized populations.
The East Scarborough Storefront: provides resources, including income tax clinics.
Settlement.org: provides information and resources on financial assistance for immigrants in Ontario.
Prosper Canada offers tools and resources such as budget calculators, credit card selectors, and money management guides tailored for newcomers.
Food Aid Resources
FCJ Refugee Centre Food Security Program: give refugees and their families, as well as others with precarious immigrant status, access to wholesome meals.
CICS Community Food Programs: encourage immigrants to settle in and become active members of Canadian society by providing meals.
Access Alliance Newcomers Cooking Together: helps immigrants who live in priority neighborhoods in Toronto adjust to the Canadian food environment in a healthy way.
Muslim Food Bank Canada: supplies food and essential items for new arrivals, so they can focus on other aspects of the settlement.
Housing Resources
The Housing Help Centre: provides one-on-one counseling to assess your needs and locate market rent or subsidized accommodation in the Greater Toronto Area to help you settle in Toronto.
West Neighbourhood House: helps immigrants and refugees settle into life in Toronto
Woodgreen: assist immigrants in finding affordable housing, finding employment, and receiving government assistance
Sakeenah Homes: offers safe houses and caseworkers to help Muslim women who are homeless because of poverty, abuse, or immigration-related concerns find safe accommodation in Toronto.
The City of Toronto has a subsidized housing program that makes rent affordable for eligible households.
Community Resources
Citizenship and Immigration Canada has an interactive map that helps newcomers locate services in each province or territory, such as community services.
The Neighbourhood Group Community Services can help you meet new friends, go to cultural and recreational events, and learn about schools, health care, and government services
Access Alliance specializes in improving health outcomes for immigrants, refugees, and their communities, which are vulnerable due to systemic barriers and poverty.
Bangladeshi-Canadian Community Services (BCS) offers a variety of services and activities to assist individuals, especially those who are new to the area, in settling in successfully, achieving their goals in life, and helping to create a more cohesive and welcoming community for everyone.
The Arab Community Centre of Toronto works with newcomers of all backgrounds across Toronto.
COSTI links newcomers to community resources and services such as banks, shops, housing, health, cultural, educational, recreational and legal facilities
CultureLink provides a range of programs to help new immigrants discover safe places in their environment, explore it, form relationships, improve their own lives, and make a good impact on the larger community.
Settlement Assistance and Family Support Services (SAFSS) have referrals to community resources that focus on South Asian, Iranian and Afghani communities.
Legal Services Resources
Legal Aid Ontario helps immigrants who qualify for legal aid services, including representation at hearings before the Immigration and Refugee Board and applications to the Federal Court.
West Toronto Community Legal Services (WTCLS) helps low-income people with legal problems arising from immigration, ranging from sponsorships and humanitarian & Compassionate applications to Canadian citizenship and permanent residency.
For Youth Initiative also has services that help immigrants find legal help.
Willowdale Community Legal Services (WCLS) offers advice, brief services, and representation on immigration matters such as humanitarian applications, sponsorship, refugee protection, citizenship, appeals, and more.
The City of Toronto provides a directory of legal help resources, including tenant support and public legal information sessions.
