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Carmela Valles came to Peterborough from the Philippines as a student in 1990. From 2001-2010 she was the Executive Director of the New Canadians Centre in Peterborough (www.nccpeterborough.ca), a publicly-funded agency that provides new immigrants with a variety of support services. She now works as an immigration consultant.
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Integration Strategy


Integration Strategy 2010-2015

The PPCII Immigrant Integration Strategy outlines the goals and objectives that must be met in order to make Peterborough a more welcoming community for newcomers to work, live and study.

To meet the objectives of the Integration Strategy over the next five years, the PPCII has developed an Interactive Action Plan.  This Action Plan allows you to find out what activities are already underway in the community as well as how you can get involved in helping to implement the objectives of the Immigrant Integration Strategy.

 

Interactive Action Plan! 

The PPCII hosts an interactive action plan, where projects and partnership opportunities are showcased and updated on a regular basis. Click on the links below to find out how you can get involved! 

 

 

 

SECTOR

 

 

Economic Development

Health, Social Services and Voluntary

Housing and Transportation

Education

THEME

Capacity Building

Develop resources, initiatives and partnerships that support employers in attracting, retaining and integrating immigrants in the workplace

Build the capacity and scope of settlement and social services

Develop a civic diversity strategy reflecting changing community demographics to provide more culturally competent service delivery

Develop partnerships to expand the range of local English as a Second Language (ESL) services and resources

Access to Services

Assist immigrants in locating and accessing employment and entrepreneurial resources.

Connect immigrants to appropriate services

Increase the availability and accessibility of housing through partnerships, education and training

 

Improve access to local ESL services for all ages and abilities

Opportunities for
Participation

Strategically promote opportunities for immigrants to participate fully in the local economy

Involve immigrants in the social, cultural, and political life of the Peterborough community

Involve immigrants in discussions regarding availability of and access to housing and transportation

Create more training opportunities for immigrants

Attraction
and
Retention

Advocate for prioritization of immigrant attraction in regional growth plans

Improve the immigrant ‘friendliness’ of government and social service programs and workplace policies

Identify the barriers faced by immigrants in accessing transportation and determine how to address them

Provide opportunities for the Peterborough community to learn how to become more welcoming and inclusive

Strategically promote Peterborough to new immigrants as a place to live, study and work

Research
and Development

Engage in ongoing research on trends and opportunities in the region to support local market planning and economic development

Research barriers to immigrant integration, including discrimination and public policy and determine how to address them

 

Conduct research on income and housing to identify gaps in the availability of affordable and accessible housing

Collect information necessary to improve community educational initiatives

History of the Integration Strategy

The Integration Strategy is a "living document", and is a result of community consultations and research projects that took place over two phases.

The first phase of research improved our understanding of issues faced in the settlement and integration of immigrants in the Peterborough community. The research projects in this first phase include

  • A review of peer-reviewed and grey literature regarding how the issue of immigrant integration has been examined in second and third-tier Canadian communities (findings from 1995 and on)
  • Focus groups with key community representatives to uncover the barriers that immigrants face in engaging in the five priority areas of health and social services, employment, education, housing and transportation. Similarly, the emphasis is on issues faced by second- and third-tier municipalities. Input was also sought from immigrants (both new and long-term) to Peterborough.

The second phase of research looked at other cities comparable to Peterborough. With this research, and the information from the first phase of the process, the PPCII was able to create the Integration Strategy.Below are the documents from the second phase of the research: 

Today, the objectives of the Integration strategy will be met by carrying out a series of proposed actions identified through the research and community consultation process.Community participation is essential to implementing these proposed actions. If you, or your organization, is interested in getting involved with the Integration Strategy, you can do so through joining a committee, becoming a member of the council, partnering with the PPCII to complete a project, or joining one of the Sector Working Groups. If you are interested in participating in a sector working group, please contact the Chair of the Integration Strategy Committee, Debbie Harrison.