Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC)

Online resource hub assists and empowers both individuals and organizations in the refugee resettlement process. Provides information and resources to support refugees living in BC; includes publications and statistics on all refugee categories, training resources, toolkits, and information on commu...

Helps unemployed and underemployed skilled immigrants find employment that uses their pre-arrival skills, experience, and education. Eligibility criteria include permanent residency within the previous five years; certification in a profession, trade, or skilled occupation from their home country; o...

Helps unemployed and underemployed skilled immigrants find employment that uses their pre-arrival skills, experience, and education. Eligibility criteria include permanent residency within the previous five years; certification in a profession, trade, or skilled occupation from their home country; o...

Helps unemployed and underemployed skilled immigrants find employment that uses their pre-arrival skills, experience, and education. Eligibility criteria include permanent residency within the previous five years; certification in a profession, trade, or skilled occupation from their home country; o...

Helps unemployed and underemployed skilled immigrants find employment that uses their pre-arrival skills, experience, and education. Eligibility criteria include permanent residency within the previous five years; certification in a profession, trade, or skilled occupation from their home country; o...

A social group for older adults age 55 and up who are newcomers to Canada; priority is given to those who have been in Canada for five years or less. Focus is on making new friends, joining in community events, improving digital literacy skills, and learning about Canadian culture; includes informat...

Offers financial assistance and support for individuals who are eligible for recredentialing or alternative career training. Services include information about recredentialing for a specific occupation; career opportunities (within a field or alternative career), as well as access to a low-interest ...

Offers free skill development to immigrant and refugee parents in order to support their one-and-a-half-to four-year-old children's education. Provides weekly in-home or virtual support and training, workshops, learning supplies, and monthly group support with other parents. Registration is required...

Offers free skill development to immigrant and refugee parents in order to support their one-and-a-half-to four-year-old children's education. Provides weekly in-home or virtual support and training, workshops, learning supplies, and group support with other parents. Registration is required.

Offers beginner to advanced English language training, including International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) preparation, as well as classes on specialized topics such as pronunciation, grammar, writing, and academic English. Also offers vo...

Provides counselling support, community resources and connections, settlement services, employment training, self-employment programs, and parenting training for newcomers (immigrants, refugees, and refugee claimants) in Surrey. Houses a primary health care clinic, listed independently. Administrati...

Provides supervised, temporary accommodation for government-assisted refugee families and singles; also available for refugee claimants if space is available. Houses classrooms for language learning, a newcomer youth drop-in and resource centre, employment services, a licensed preschool, and meeting...

Provides practical and social support to immigrant and refugee women 19 years of age and older, by training women from various ethnic groups to facilitate peer support groups in their first language. Leaders receive 100 hours of training over 14 weeks before delivering 10-week peer support groups fo...

Provides practical and social support to immigrant and refugee women 19 years of age and older, by training women from various ethnic groups to facilitate peer support groups in their first language. Leaders receive 100 hours of training over 14 weeks before delivering 10-week peer support groups fo...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement related employment issues, and connections...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement related employment issues, and connections...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement related employment issues, and connections...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement related employment issues, and connections...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement related employment issues, and connections...

Connects permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, immigrants, refugee, and refugee claimant job seekers with services that meet both their employment and settlement needs. Provides information about BC's job market, guidance and support on settlement-related employment issues, and connections...

Access point for Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC), free basic and intermediate English language instruction for adult newcomers. Assesses prospective students for eligibility and training level using Canadian Language Benchmarks Placement Test (CLBPT) and gives a referral to an ap...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and age 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate learn...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and age 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate Engli...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and be 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate Englis...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and age 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate Engli...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and age 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate Engli...

Provides free English classes for newcomers to Canada, age 17 or over, to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Funding is by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) for Permanent Residents. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) ...

Provides free English classes for adult immigrants and refugees to help them gain the language and knowledge to start their new lives and settle in Canada. Must be a Permanent Resident of Canada and age 17 years of age or older. The English Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) classes incorporate Engli...

Provides training for immigrant and refugee youth ages 14 to 24 to become peer facilitators and community leaders. Trains youth to deliver youth-driven support services at partnering host organizations (such as schools, community centres, and neighbourhood houses) to other newcomer youth facing sett...

Provides training for immigrant and refugee youth ages 14 to 24 to become peer facilitators and community leaders. Trains youth to deliver youth-driven support services at partnering host organizations (such as schools, community centres, and neighbourhood houses) to other newcomer youth facing sett...

Provides training for immigrant and refugee youth ages 14 to 24 to become peer facilitators and community leaders. Trains youth to deliver youth-driven support services at partnering host organizations (such as schools, community centres, and neighbourhood houses) to other newcomer youth facing sett...

Holds free legal clinics at different ISS of BC offices in Metro Vancouver (Vancouver, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge, Burnaby, and Richmond) to provide free legal information and advice to newcomers to Canada who have faced or are facing sexual harassment in the workplace....

Supports the social and economic integration of newcomers in Vancouver who are not eligible to receive services from federally funded programs. Program serves refugee claimants, temporary foreign workers, Ukrainians who have arrived in Vancouver through the CUAET Program, post-secondary internationa...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants and refugees. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assistance, and interpretation and translation services. Offers targeted pr...

Provides settlement assistance for immigrants, refugees, and Ukrainians who have arrived in Vancouver through the CUAET Program. Services include individual and group settlement counselling, workshops, information and referral services, help with accessing community resources, form completion assist...

Offers a nine-month pre-employment program for immigrant, refugee claimant, or naturalized women who are interested in the tech field. Provides eight weeks of classes and five to 10 weeks of part-time coding and design classes, including introduction to web development, and an eight-week practicum. ...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Newcomers to Canada have the opportunity to share their skills and learn new skills through volunteering. Local residents are invited to share their time, skills, and knowledge; gain new experiences and obtain references; build social and professional networks; participate in free workshops and fiel...

Offers training in web development, digital marketing/design, or information and communications technology for immigrant and refugee youth ages 17 to 29. In-person and online training includes web development, digital marketing and design, and information and communications technology. Courses inclu...