Catholic Centre for Immigrants - Maison Sophia House

Providing services to clients on a hybrid model: 50% working from home and 50% working from the offices.

96-bed reception facility provides temporary accommodation and initial orientation to government-sponsored refugees and refugee claimants for up to 4 weeks. Refugees are responsible for maintaining their own rooms

• cafeteria with ethnic foods
• child minding
• recreation program

Settlement Services: Needs assessment and Information and referral to community and social services (working together with all interdepartmental Catholic Centre for Immigrants (CCI) programs)

• support with finding housing, child care, registering children in school and health care
• help filling out government forms including housing forms
• help with connecting to language classes or similar programs that may be within the agency (while clients are waiting to attend regular programs)
• workshops life in Canada, to reduce stress of adjusting to Canadian culture
• supportive counselling - short term counselling

Workshops:

• employment
• education
• services in the community
• health
• family law
• immigration
• housing
• shopping
• banking
• orientation

• be a government-sponsored refugee, be an immigrant in Canada for less than a year, or be a person who has never been through a settlement program