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Available Courses

• Family Violence against Immigrant & Refugee Women: Community Development Strategies

  This training is intended for immigrant service and other community-based organizations that are in a unique capacity to reach vulnerable and/or isolated immigrant women and their communities. It addresses the need to enhance domestic violence prevention strategies to reach immigrant and refugee women, including women without legal immigration status, trafficked women and women from racialized low-income communities.
• Prevention of Domestic Violence against Immigrant and Refugee Women through Early Intervention

  This training is intended for settlement service providers and anyone who frequently provides services to immigrants, refugees and undocumented women.
  
• OCASI Community of Practice: Sharing and Creating Knowledge on Woman Abuse in the Settlement Sector

  • Teacher: Angie Rupra

  

  Community of Practice: Sharing and Creating Knowledge on Woman Abuse in the Settlement Sector This Community of Practice will provide the opportunity for service providers working in the settlement sector to create and sustain an online network to support one another in addressing issues of woman abuse, to promote enhanced professionalism and to increase quality of service to immigrant and refugee communities.
• Facilitated Course: Understanding and Responding to Woman Abuse - October 2009

  • Teacher: Immaculate Tumwine
  • Teacher: OCASI eLearning Staff

  

  This online course provides practitioners and students working with newcomer, immigrant and refugee communities with an introductory knowledge base and skill-set required to understand and respond to woman abuse in immigrant and refugee communities.
• Facilitated Course: Understanding and Responding to Woman Abuse - September 2009

  • Teacher: Immaculate Tumwine
  • Teacher: OCASI eLearning Staff

  

  This online course provides practitioners and students working with newcomer, immigrant and refugee communities with an introductory knowledge base and skill-set required to:
  
  1. Critically understand the systemic barriers impacting immigrant and refugee women experiencing abuse
  
  2. Appropriately assess and refer immigrant and refugee women experiencing abuse
  
  3. Organize communities to prevent and address violence against immigrant and refugee women
  
  Through five interactive modules, learners will participate in a range of methods to increase knowledge, stimulate thinking, and engage in practical skill-building activities.
  
  
  
• Facilitated Course: Understanding and Responding to Woman Abuse - November 2009 (Group 1)

  • Teacher: Immaculate Tumwine
  • Teacher: OCASI eLearning Staff
  • Teacher: Inderjit Grewal

  

  This online course provides practitioners and students working with newcomer, immigrant and refugee communities with an introductory knowledge base and skill-set required to understand and respond to woman abuse in immigrant and refugee communities.
• Facilitated Course: Understanding and Responding to Woman Abuse - November 2009 (Group 2)

  • Teacher: OCASI eLearning Staff
  • Teacher: Inderjit Grewal
  • Teacher: Immaculate Tumwine

  

  This online course provides practitioners and students working with newcomer, immigrant and refugee communities with an introductory knowledge base and skill-set required to understand and respond to woman abuse in immigrant and refugee communities.
• Facilitated Course: Understanding and Responding to Woman Abuse - December 2009

  • Teacher: OCASI eLearning Staff
  • Teacher: Immaculate Tumwine

  

  This online course provides practitioners and students working with newcomer, immigrant and refugee communities with an introductory knowledge base and skill-set required to understand and respond to woman abuse in immigrant and refugee communities.
• Newcomer Youth Settlement Guide for Service Providers: Serving Youth in Newcomer Communities

  The OCASI Newcomer Youth Settlement Guide for Service Providers is intended as a guide and not as a definitive prescriptive document. It is the outcome of youth-led, community-based research carried out in collaboration with settlement workers selected from across Ontario. The document draws on some of the challenges and recommendations from existing research, however, most of the challenges and recommendations outlined were
  obtained from the suggestions and proposals made by youth and settlement workers during the OCASI Services for Youth in Newcomer Communities (SYNC) project research.
• Building Conversations on the Web - 5 Good Ideas

  Welcome to the online continuation of the recent Five Good Ideas workshop - Building Conversations on the Web. We look forward to continuing the conversation here, sharing and building on our experiences, skills, ideas and efforts.
• Using New Media Technologies with Our Newcomer Clients

  This session provides an overview of emerging Web 2.0 trends and demonstrates online information sharing using simple internet tools. We will cover and demonstrate some of the free sites and resources that can help your work and find out how easy Web 2.0 technologies can be.