Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and Immigrant Services

public education campaign: The Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants is receiving about $343,000 for trauma and mental-health training for front-line workers as well as a public education campaign, and COSTI Immigrant Services is receiving $283,000 to deliver workshops and orientation resources to refugees, according to Toronto Star. That money is part of the $8.5 million Ontario pledged over 2 ½ years to support refugees. The federal government is aiming to settle 25,000 refugees by the end of February, with about two-thirds expected to be 7,000 Syrian refugees have already settled in Ontario since Dec. 10 and on Monday the premier announced details of some of the funding committed to helping them. Wynne says the refugee resettlement has been a remarkable success story, though she admits there have been some timing issues. We can be confident that our combined efforts are working, now, maybe not quite as quickly or as seamlessly as we would like in every single case. We knew that a resettlement of this scale would not be without its challenges, Wynne said Monday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.