Community Engagement & Belonging

Newcomer fathers face many of the same settlement challenges as other newcomers, including employment barriers, language difficulties, and disconnection from community. At the same time, these experiences are often shaped by changing family roles, caregiving responsibilities, shifting expectations around fatherhood, and limited access to male-focused supports. Fathers arriving through temporary migration streams or refugee claimants may face additional pressures.

Anyone can become a victim of a scam or fraud, regardless of age, education level, income, language ability, or immigration status. However, newcomers can be particularly vulnerable. After arrival, newcomers are often seeking immigration information and assistance, employment, and financial services. During this transition, they might be unfamiliar with Canadian government processes and institutions, as well as with their rights in Canada. This creates vulnerabilities that scammers can exploit. Understanding how scams and frauds target newcomers is essential for settlement workers to best support their clients.

The BC Refugee Hub provides capacity-building resources and trainings to support refugee-serving organizations.

This capacity-building session facilitated by Jalissa Schmidt of Cedar Bridges Consulting discusses how we can weave Indigenous values into our work and daily practice to build relationships with and cultural safety for Indigenous Peoples. The intention is for our space to ebb and flow between sharing Indigenous perspectives and offering examples of tangible ways to continue moving forward on this journey together.