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Local Immigration Partnership

JVS Toronto received funding to develop Local immigration Partnerships (LIP) in two neighborhoods: Bathurst and Finch and Lawrence Heights.  LIP, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), will strengthen the role of local neighborhoods in serving and integrating immigrants by providing a collaborative framework for social and economic integration of new immigrants.  This is a collaboration between the  Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (MCI) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada ( CIC); CIC is the sole funder  of this agreement.

The funding intends to achieve the following objectives:

1. Improve access to, and coordination of, effective services that facilitate immigrant settlement and integration.
2. Improve access to the labour market for immigrants.
3. Strengthen local capacity to integrate immigrants.
4. Establish or enhance partnerships and participation of multiple stakeholders in planning, and coordinating the delivery of integration services (including settlement, language training, labour-market integration), especially current services supported by the federal government through Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) or through the provincial Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration.
5. To build capacity at the neighbourhood level so a neighbourhood perspective can be brought to strategic thinking on immigration and settlement at the city wide level.