From comprehensive research projects to event summaries, each ARAISA report offers a roadmap for creating a positive impact. With meticulous analysis and insightful recommendations tailored for settlement service providers and policymakers, our reports are key to helping you drive positive change.
March 2023
Evaluating the Needs of Newcomer Youth in Atlantic Canadian Employment Programming Service Provision
This report is a collaboration between ARAISA, the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economic and Cultural Transformation. It focuses on evaluating the needs of newcomer youth in Atlantic Canadian employment programming service provision. The report highlights the importance of newcomer youth in the sustainability and future of Atlantic Canada’s economy and the challenges they face in entering the workforce. The report is based on interviews with program staff and focus groups with newcomer youth across all four provinces of Atlantic Canada. It concludes with recommendations for addressing these challenges and improving employment programming.
October 2023
Regional Sector Forum Report
Organized by the Société nationale de l’Acadie (SNA) and ARAISA, the Regional Sector Forum took place in Halifax and online on October 11 and 12, 2023, in partnership with IRCC. Close to 200 people gathered and shared successes, achievements, and challenges encountered by organizations and stakeholders in the settlement and integration sector with IRCC representatives. A session on financial management skills, based on IRCC requirements and regulations, helped participants with forecasting and managing variances between forecasts and cash flow results.
August 2023
National Small Centres Conference: Small Centres. Big Impact
This report is a non-exhaustive summary of the main recommendations from the roundtables held during the National Small Centres Conference in the spring of 2023, in Charlottetown, PE, and online. Participants actively contributed to identifying the changes needed to serve immigrants and refugees better in small centres.
January 2023
Gap Analysis Information and other services provided to migrant workers in the Maritimes
As part of the Better Together – Supporting Temporary Foreign Workers project, ARAISA engaged Goss Gilroy Inc. (GGI) to conduct a mapping and gap analysis regarding information and other services provided to migrant workers, especially temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in Nova Scotia (NS), New Brunswick (NB), and Prince Edward Island (PE). To learn more about the Better Together project, click here.