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Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization World Skills and Catholic Centre for Immigrants

mental health services: The money – granted to the Catholic Centre for Immigrants, the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization and World Skills – will be used to subsidize Syrian refugees’ rent fees or resolve any landlord issues, according to Metro News. It will also be used to provide mental health services and help with the job hunt, including language training. The Community Foundations of Canada, which represents 191 community foundations across the country, announced the welcome fund donation on Wednesday. Newcomer families are already disproportionately represented in our family shelter system, said Carl Nicholson, executive director of the Catholic Centre for Immigrants. His organization has raised about $480,000 on its own. And so it absolutely critical that we invest in helping this newest and biggest community of newcomers avoid the need for shelter support. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.