what we offer
Supporting Newcomer Youth
Settlement Services supports newcomer youth to become healthy, integrated and self-sufficient adults by equipping them to meet their personal, social, community, educational and employment goals.
BYC addresses the developmental and settlement needs of newcomer youth through a comprehensive and culturally diverse service model that includes:
- Needs assessments
- Referrals
- Community connections
- Advocacy and support for system navigation
- One-to-one case management with ongoing supportive coaching
- Employment related services including employment skills workshops and connection to employment opportunities
- Cultural and recreational activities with positive adults and peers that promote community connections and building social networks;
- Family events that promote family togetherness and celebration of cultural diversity
- Community collaboration to reduce barriers and increase access to a wider range of community supports and resources
Registration
Interested in Settlement Services?
Access to this program is by referral.
Referral Form
Program Information
General
Youth ages 14-29 are new to Canada
Genesis Centre
- Statistics Canada stated that Canada saw its largest influx ever of international immigrants in the spring of 2016 – 86,216 newcomers, and Alberta’s share of that number was 12,050, or nearly 14 percent of the total (June 2016).
- They have a limited time to learn English, to adapt to a new culture, to catch up academically to Canadian-born students, and to develop the skills necessary to seek employment. Consequently, they are vulnerable to social isolation, poverty, depression and anxiety, dropping out of high school, unemployment and long-term challenges to integration.
- Multi-barriered newcomer youth need information and access to services, social and emotional support, employment support, and opportunities for cultural bridging so that they can develop the confidence, self-esteem, positive sense of identity, skills, resources and social capital necessary for them to become healthy, integrated self-sufficient adults.
- In partnership with IRCC (Immigration Refugees & Citizenship Canada) and FCSS (Family & Community Support Services), Trellis is able to offer multiple services to New to Canada Youth through our Building Youth Connections program.