News and Events

Wellnes Program

FCJ Refugee Centre is providing primary health care clinic, mental health clinic and self-care at their main location to meet the disenfranchised populations from diverse cultural backgrounds unique health needs. The very essence of the program is to focus on the holistic health care which is integrated approach to health that treats individual as “whole”. …

Acces to Health Care Workshops Iniciative

The workshops are an effort to offset surmounting challenges that refugees are facing in accessing holistic and timely healthcare. Our goal is to   increase access for refugee women  to a holistic healthcare regime that highlights counseling and mental health, as well as greater knowledge sharing and dissemination of accurate and up-to-date information around promising self-care…

Employment Oppportunity

Transitional Housing Worker   Application deadline: May 2nd, 2014 Start date: May 12th, 2014 Salary and Hours: $15.50/hr, 25 hours a week for one year (52 weeks)  Please Note: This position is supported by Toronto Social Services Investing In Neighbourhoods Program. To qualify for this position, candidates must meet the following criteria: Be in receipt…

Official VIP screening of “No-Ledge” on MAY 8

 The FCJ Youth Network cordially invites you to the official VIP screening of “No-Ledge”. A film by:  Benjamin Cornejo.This video addresses the barriers  faced by non-status & precarious migrant youth when accessing secondary and post–secondary education in Canada. For registration fill out the form below and click submit [EVR_SINGLE event_id=”5″]

Addressing intersectionality and igniting change FCJ Refugee Centre is organizing a one day forum to bring together multiple stakeholders including refugee and immigrant youth, youth workers, other field professionals and allies to participate in discussions around how multiple forms of human trafficking affect both domestic and migrant youth populations. Unfortunately, youth are underrepresented in dialogues…

Human Trafficking and Youth Forum April 12

 Addressing intersectionality and igniting change FCJ Refugee Centre is organizing a one day forum to bring together multiple stakeholders including refugee and immigrant youth, youth workers, other field professionals and allies to participate in discussions around how multiple forms of human trafficking affect both domestic and migrant youth populations. Unfortunately, youth are under-represented in dialogues…

Winter Newsletter 2014

The FCJ Refugee Centre Winter Newsletter is ready. You can find a lot of information about activities, new services and upcoming events on spring. Some of the topics you can find in this issue are: Next events: Art Fundraising for Education March 6th, Human Trafficking and youth on April 25 and Roundtable on May 2014,…

Access to Education Film

The film explores some of the barriers and impacts experienced by precarious migrant youth populations in accessing secondary and post-secondary education in Ontario. Through the film, different youth voices talk about the problems they are facing in continue their education. According to the video, there are, just in Toronto, around 200,000 youth population without access…

Improving services to vulnerable newcomer population

The Newcomer Settlement Program Project, NSP, have straightened our capacity to respond the multifaceted needs of vulnerable newcomer population such as non-status, included youth and women. Through this program we are able to continue providing a variety of services to vulnerable newcomers such us orientation, settlement support, workshops, counselling, and referrals to appropriate services. One…

Second Roundtable on February 20

Join the members of the Toronto Counter Human Trafficking Network and prominent experts to continue the dialogue on human trafficking and discuss the elements of the Toronto anti-human trafficking response model. Objectives: •             Establish and foster relations between multi‐sector stakeholders, •             Continue to develop anti-human trafficking response model corresponding to the particularities of Toronto area…