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September 3, 2020 – 7:51 am | Comments Off on From Informing to Empowering: Digital Public Participation – P2 – Tools | 2,134 views

The shift to digital engagement is not new. Online public engagement platforms have been utilized for decades to keep stakeholders informed and engage and empower citizens. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of digital tools …

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Identifying Promising Practices in in the development and implementation of Social Plans

July 1, 2011 – 3:41 pm | 3,930 views

LEARNING LESSONS FROM THE CANADIAN URBAN MUNICIPALITIES
Canadian cities are facing fast population growth along with rapidly changing demographics of their residents. There are more seniors, low income families, newcomers, single parent families and ethnically diverse …

RESPECT Dialogue – Immigrant Mentoring Programs in BC

June 20, 2011 – 7:38 am | 2,115 views

Why Dialogue?
An increased awareness of the difficulties that new immigrants face in socio-economic integration urged the founding members of RESPECT to investigate these issues and form a team of individuals dedicated to uplifting the current …

BC HRMA Diversity Roundtable: Addressing Immigrant Labour Marekt Barriers with IEC-BC

December 15, 2010 – 3:38 pm | 1,882 views

When: October 7, 2010
Joining us for this discussion is Kelly Pollack, Executive Director of the Immigrant
Employment Council of BC. Kelly will talk about the history in Vancouver of
initiatives designed to address immigrant labour market barriers …

Making a Joyful Noise

December 11, 2010 – 12:55 am | 9,319 views
Making a Joyful NoisePlay

This video was produced by a team of three graduate students (SCARP, UBC), including Olga Shcherbyna in a support of Britannia Community Centre request for capital funding.

Soft Skills Presentation to Skilled Immigrants

April 19, 2010 – 9:56 am | 2,364 views

As a Founder of Diversity CLUES Consulting, Olga Scherbina was invited to present to over 20 immigrant-participants of Workplace English Program, a partnership between SFU and PICS.
Olga talked about her experience being an immigrant in …