English Language Training: Food Security Services

Vancouver City Council Dept: The "Welcome House Centre" will include short-term and long-term housing, medical services and English language training. There will also be trauma care, child care, a youth centre, food security services, a banking kiosk and a legal clinic, according to CBC. "This is another milestone in this long-term multi-year project of getting this facility built... we've had outstanding support from the city," he said in an interview on Radio One's On the Coast and Vancouver City Council has approved the construction of a new 58,000 square foot facility to service immigrants and refugees. Chris Freisen, director of settlement services for the Immigrant Services Society of B.C. ISSBC , says the building will be the first of its kind in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.