EMCN Families, Youth, and Children
Edmonton Mennonite Center for Newcomers provides useful services and activities that help parents, youth, communities and schools foster the healthy growth of immigrant families.
Edmonton Mennonite Center for Newcomers provides useful services and activities that help parents, youth, communities and schools foster the healthy growth of immigrant families.
Our Supports
Settlement Practitioners
Settlement Practitioners help create smooth interactions between people of different cultures and backgrounds. They help connect families, schools and communities.
Settlement Practitioners are available to all immigrant youth in Edmonton, but they are most active in serving six ethno-cultural communities: Sudanese, Karen, Somali, Kurdish, Afghani, and Iraqi.
See also: In-Library Settlement Program
Settlement Practitioners help create smooth interactions between people of different cultures and backgrounds. They help connect families, schools and communities.
- Help communication between home and school
- Interpretation and translation services for students, parents and teachers during meetings, conferences and interviews
- Give information to parents and students about the Alberta educational system
- Link newcomer families to community resources and services
- Help teachers communicate with and support parents and students
- Create culturally sensitive workshops and presentations to students, their parents, schools, and educational institutions
- Provide information to parents on how to support the education needs of their children
- Encourage parents’ involvement in their children’s schooling
Settlement Practitioners are available to all immigrant youth in Edmonton, but they are most active in serving six ethno-cultural communities: Sudanese, Karen, Somali, Kurdish, Afghani, and Iraqi.
See also: In-Library Settlement Program
Our Services
Settlement Services in Schools
EMCN's Settlement Services in Schools make communication easier and create connections between newcomer families, their communities and the school system in Alberta.
English as an Additional Language Teachers and Settlement Practitioners organize homework clubs to provide school support for students at Queen Elizabeth High School, Balwin School and Dickinsfield Junior High School. Help with education and settlement-related issues are also provided to newcomer families and their children at Balwin School.
Trauma Counselling
Trauma counselling is available for newcommer youth and children who are looking for psychological support to deal with trauma and loss from refugee experiences or while getting used to to life in Canada
EMCN's Settlement Services in Schools make communication easier and create connections between newcomer families, their communities and the school system in Alberta.
English as an Additional Language Teachers and Settlement Practitioners organize homework clubs to provide school support for students at Queen Elizabeth High School, Balwin School and Dickinsfield Junior High School. Help with education and settlement-related issues are also provided to newcomer families and their children at Balwin School.
Trauma Counselling
Trauma counselling is available for newcommer youth and children who are looking for psychological support to deal with trauma and loss from refugee experiences or while getting used to to life in Canada
Contact
Please feel free to contact us
Phone: 780-424-7709 / E-mail: info@emcn.ab.ca
Phone: 780-424-7709 / E-mail: info@emcn.ab.ca
Family Program
Parenting and Literacy
This is a 10 week multicultural family program for refugee and immigrant parents and their preschool children. The program happens twice each week in three different language levels.
This is a 10 week multicultural family program for refugee and immigrant parents and their preschool children. The program happens twice each week in three different language levels.
- What will happens?
- Parents and children begin by eating lunch together. This helps families connect with others and learn new recipes.
- After lunch, family literacy activities with the parents and children include dancing, singing, and storytelling. This supports first language literacy and cultural pride.
- In workshops and activities parents learn skills for parenting children in the Canadian context and develop their language and literacy skills.
Contact
For more information please contact us
Phone: 780-423-9519 / E-mail: info@emcn.ab.ca
Phone: 780-423-9519 / E-mail: info@emcn.ab.ca
Bridge-2-Success Program for Newcomer Students
This program is in various junior high and elementary schools and provides help in learning subjects and building social skills and positive self esteem. The program is designed to help newcomer students become a part of a new school and society. Each week students meet after school with program staff and volunteers. Together we learn, build skills and have fun.
Summer Camps provide activities for learning and fun during the hot summer weeks. Camp includes exciting recreational activities, arts & crafts, and field trips, which are all fun and educational.
Global Youth Network
The Global Youth Network is a mentorship service to help newcomer youth adjust to life in Canada. This service matches newcomer youth with peer volunteers for friendship and support. This friendship and support helps newcomer youth feel accepted and welcome in their new country.
Both the volunteer and the newcomer have the opportunity to make a new friend and to learn about another culture.
Other services
This program is in various junior high and elementary schools and provides help in learning subjects and building social skills and positive self esteem. The program is designed to help newcomer students become a part of a new school and society. Each week students meet after school with program staff and volunteers. Together we learn, build skills and have fun.
- Program Activities include:
- Academic tutoring from trained volunteers and professional staff
- Recreational activities and sports
- Social support from adult tutors and peers
Summer Camps provide activities for learning and fun during the hot summer weeks. Camp includes exciting recreational activities, arts & crafts, and field trips, which are all fun and educational.
Global Youth Network
The Global Youth Network is a mentorship service to help newcomer youth adjust to life in Canada. This service matches newcomer youth with peer volunteers for friendship and support. This friendship and support helps newcomer youth feel accepted and welcome in their new country.
Both the volunteer and the newcomer have the opportunity to make a new friend and to learn about another culture.
Other services
- Academic tutoring provided by trained volunteers and professional staff
- Coordinated weekend and/or evening group activities including social and cross cultural, health and recreation
- Story Circles bring together ancient myth, cultural tales, personal stories, drama and art into a trusting circle where each person will learn to tell their own unique story
- Information sessions on various aspects of Canadian society or to provide practical guidance in specific areas of interest/concern
- Field trips to educational and historical sites
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