Settlement Practitioners facilitate interactions between people of different cultures and backgrounds. They help connect families, schools and communities.

Settlement Practitioners:

• Facilitate communication between home and school
• Provide interpretation and translation services for students, parents and teachers during meetings, conferences and interviews.
• Provide information for parents and students about the Alberta educational system
• Link newcomer families to community resources and services
• Help teachers communicate with and better support parents and students from different cultures
• Plan and deliver culturally sensitive workshops and presentations to ELL and refugee students, their parents, to schools, and to educational institutions.
• Provide information to parents on how to advocate effectively for the education needs of their children
• Encourage and facilitate parents’ involvement in their children’s schooling

While Settlement Practitioners are available to all immigrant youth in Edmonton, they are most active in serving six ethno-cultural communities: Sudanese, Karen, Somali, Kurdish, Afghani, and Iraqi.
 

For more information please call 780-424-7709 or e-mail info@emcn.ab.ca