Time Office: Association Executive

Settlement Services Dept: For the last two years immigrants have been coming to the Island by the thousands, requiring a rapid growth in settlement services. Much of that effort has been focused on Charlottetown. The P.E.I. Association for Newcomers didn't realize how much need there was in Summerside until they ran a small program to help ease immigrant health professionals into life in the city, according to CBC. "Other newcomers in the community, who were not necessarily health professionals, heard about it just word of mouth spread. So we began to get a demand for services," said association executive director Craig Mackie. Spreading across the province P.E.I.'s immigration boom has prompted the P.E.I. Association for Newcomers to open a part-time office in Summerside. Craig Mackie would like to see the new P.E.I. Association for Newcomers office in Summerside open full time and serving all of western P.E.I. That program reached out to 10 families, but then more immigrants from other professions started looking for help too. As reported in the news.
@t immigration boom, immigrant health