Catholic Centre for Immigrants – Ottawa
How You Can Help
When you help a newcomer family in Ottawa, you are making an investment in Canada’s future. You are helping some of our most vulnerable residents thrive. Here’s how you can help today!
How We Help
We have been helping newcomers to Ottawa settle and integrate into their new community for more than 65 years. We help them feel at home and safe. You can help.
Settlement Services
Connecting to Community
Employment
Language
Youth
Workshops/Activities
Josephine’s first job in Ottawa
Meet Josephine, a CCI client who wants to share the story of her first job in Ottawa. My name is Josephine and working at Dollarama was one of my first work experiences in Canada. I worked at the cash register and in the store answering customers’ questions and...
Terrariums equal family fun
Settlement and integration can be a long process for newcomers. There's adapting to daily life, finding a new job, learning a new language, figuring out where to buy groceries, shop, where to send the children to school and more. We help newcomers with all of those...
COVID-19 update
A message to our community about COVID 19 We are committed to maintaining critical and essential services to clients. As the COVID 19 situation continues to evolve, the Catholic Centre for Immigrants is following the advice of Public Health Officials to ensure the...
CCI statement on systemic racism
Today, CCI Ottawa stands united with the Black community in our city, province and country. We grieve with the Black community the senseless deaths of Black people that have occurred in the United States and in Canada. Our city is not immune to systemic racism. We...
Explore
Do you want to learn more about what we do at CCI Ottawa? Check our videos and photo galleries to get a glimpse of what we do every day to help newcomers feel at home in Ottawa.
A Community Approach
The Catholic Centre for Immigrants is located in the Centre Bruyere for Immigrants building. This building is also home to several other agencies that help newcomers.
World Skills
Immigrant Women Services Ottawa
Ottawa Newcomer Health Centre
OLIP