by CCI Ottawa | May 27, 2016 | News
Why do community members from diverse communities and minority groups hesitate to call the police when they are victims or witnesses of a crime? This was one of the questions explored in an in-depth cultural awareness session at CCI last month by 22 newly recruited...
by CCI Ottawa | May 27, 2016 | News
CCI’s Career Transitions program helps internationally trained medical doctors and other health professionals join the Canadian workforce. Some will find alternative careers in the health care field, working in research, community health, academics or the private...
by CCI Ottawa | May 27, 2016 | News
Ottawa’s warm welcome to Syrian refugees just got even warmer, thanks to a $450,000 donation from the Welcome Fund for Syrian Refugees. The Catholic Centre for Immigrants is one of three local recipients of the funding, which the Community Foundation of Ottawa is...
by CCI Ottawa | May 8, 2016 | News
CCI Volunteer Anas Wess knows what it’s like to have dreams disrupted by the war in Syria. But his message to other Syrian newcomers is: Canada is a place where you can rebuild your dreams. Anas was in the middle of his fourth year of his medical studies in Aleppo...
by CCI Ottawa | Mar 31, 2016 | News
“A once in a lifetime opportunity.” That’s how CCI Executive Director Carl Nicholson characterized the informal visit of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the Catholic Centre for Immigrants on Thursday, February 11. Seven Syrian refugee families who had...
by CCI Ottawa | Mar 31, 2016 | News
The Catholic Centre for Immigrants, (CCI) as the receiving agency in Ottawa for all Government Assisted Refugees (GARs), has received, welcomed, and housed 1109 Syrian GARs since December 29, 2015. I am so proud of our staff who have lived through the excitement, the...
