- Escorting program to newcomers (PANA)
- Family support
- Employment integration
- Regionalization
ESCORTING PROGRAM TO NEWCOMERS (PANA)
Goal
To offer to newcomers the means to fully succeed their first integration
General goals
- To facilitate the harmonious establishment and integration of newcomers to Quebec society.
- To encourage newcomers to attain their autonomy by providing to them appropriate information pertaining to the available services to which they are entitled, and thus, to facilitate their integration to Quebec society.
- To provide to families and individuals, immigrants or refugees, the necessary assistance and support for their adaptation.
- To help newcomers use the available resources.
- To stimulate the development of harmonious relationships among the members of Quebec society.
Priorities
- To stress the importance of welcoming to a successful integration
- To value and respect other people’s cultures and values
- To support job adaptation
- To promote French language as a means of integration.
- To favor social, economic and cultural bringing together of newcomers to Quebec society, in order to develop their sense of belonging to this society.
- To ensure the quality of services offered through the team’s continuous training.
- To develop new solidarities among the recipient society and the newcomers.
Means
Individual intervention
In our mentor role, we must greet a person, value and encourage her/his new life project.
Our team has established some principles which constitute the practical basis.
- An intercultural approach is mandatory in our activities. We therefore attempt to adjust ourselves through a group consideration, assisted by our own experiences and daily interventions.
Above all, we put the accent on the person.
- We consider the person in an overall sense. For this reason, our intervention not only covers legal procedures, physical establishment, needed information and other services, but we also help them gain conscience of their situation, of their knowledge of the recipient country, and accept their new life conditions.
- During our individual and group interventions, values, such as tolerance, understanding and solidarity, constitute an integral part of our daily meetings.
Group intervention
Group activities are means of gaining awareness of and information about the recipient society’s reality as a whole, and, particularly, a means of gaining knowledge and understanding of the fundamental values of Quebec society. We therefore attempt to do an equilibrium among PROMIS’ services pertaining to information activities, and those offered by our partners of the public and semi-public sectors, and the cultural activities of historic and social information
These welcome and establishment services are aimed at facilitating the newcomers’ integration to Quebec society. Counselors offer to newcomers, in many languages, the necessary help and support they need for their adaptation, by means of individual meetings and group activities.
The following services are provided:
- Consultation and References
- Coordination and Escorting
- Clientele’s Support
- Translation and Interpretation
- Accommodation Search Aid
- Information workshops
- Outings and socio-cultural activities
For further information, please contact us at : (514) 345-1615 ext. : 228, 229 or 230
You may also consult Immigration-Quebec’s website:
http://www.apprendrelequebec.gouv.qc.ca
Program subsidized by : Le Ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés Culturelles (MICC)
FAMILY SUPPORT
By means of this program, PROMIS organization aims to facilitate the integration of the newcomer families. Through home visits, mentors get acquainted with the family’s situation as to assess their specific needs and to find together appropriate solutions to their perceived problems.
The "Family Support" sector assists newcomers and immigrants in their integration to their daily life and also helps them to become active members of Quebec society.
This program is characterized by the personalized and gradual advance of the family besides their mentor. Our interventions besides each family allow us to find together a personalized response to the various problematic issues faced by the family as a whole: children, teenagers, parents and sometimes grandparents. The escorting is done at our offices, and through home visits and group activities.
The program "Family Support" exists thanks to the involvement of qualified volunteer workers. During the past year, 28 speaker-mentors-volunteer workers (women and men) helped in the achievement of this activity.
For further information, please contact us at : (514) 345-1615 ext.: 231.
Program subsidized by the Multiculturalism Sector of Heritage Canada.
EMPLOYMENT INTEGRATION
The professional integration of immigrants encounters some barriers which are mainly the result of systematic constraints presented by the recipient society. Hereafter, we would like to discuss about the recognition of achievements (education and experience) and professional orders.
Through its sector "Employment Integration" and in cooperation with its partners, PROMIS works painstakingly to eliminate such barriers and to facilitate the immigrant population’s access to the job market.
Specific Goals of the Project
- To sustain and accompany immigrant people in their job search activities
- To offer them a personalized framing in order to help them improve their personal skills
- To demystify their expectations concerning the reality of Quebec's job market
- To provide to them appropriate tools with the purpose of increasing their job search approaches’ efficiency
- To sustain private companies in their diversity management
Activities
Assistance program having as objective the success of immigrants’ and visible minority people’s employment integration (Immersion program activities).
This program is an employability measurement fully financed by Emploi Quebec. It is an excellent means of offering to immigrants the opportunity to acquire a first-hand working experience in Quebec in their field of competence.
This program offers four levels of subsidy to selected companies, on the basis of their ability of employing the candidate on the grounds of their activity of professional immersion. The first subsidy pays a part of the candidate’s salary, whereas the second one pays the salary of the employee who accompanies the candidate during his/her first weeks of work integration, during a predetermined period of time as per a written and signed agreement with the insertion adviser. The two other subsidies may pay for the expenses pertaining to the company’s adaptation of its human resources management tools so as to fit the candidate’s needs, and with regard to the candidate’s skills improvement.
More than 50 employments obtained per year!!
The quality of our follow-up
Our first step consists in a follow-up with our candidates with the purpose of motivating and encouraging them in their job search. Then, we undertake a follow-up with the organizations to which we referred the candidates for a support concerning job search techniques and CV writing. Finally, we do a follow-up with the companies which our candidates have approached in relation to an employment.
The quality of our partnerships
The secret of our success also resides in the quality of the partnerships that we have developed with employability organizations in Montreal. The quality of CVs written by our candidates in Job Search Clubs of such employability organizations enables them to obtain interviews with potential employers. Furthermore, consultative meetings with our employability organizations partners enable us to discuss issues and tools which could eventually facilitate immigrant people’s access to the job market.
Our candidates’ personal and professional skills
The success of our project is mainly the result of our candidates’ personal and professional skills. The procedures we undertake to help them would be unsuccessful if our candidates would not have proven to possess the required skills to integrate the job market. Moreover, it is their motivation and their determination that convince skeptical employers to give an opportunity to people coming from abroad.
For further information, please contact us at : (514) 345-1615 ext.: 234 or 235
Program Subsidized by Emploi Quebec
REGIONALIZATION
Why establish oneself in a region?
To BE EMPLOYED
Quebec’s different regions greet the arrival of skillful and experienced people, since it stimulates their economic growth. Moreover, those regions face a workforce shortage in certain fields, which may thus result in the rise of employment of immigrant people.
For the STANDARD OF LIFE
Quebec’s regions offer an inviting and secure environment, far away from pollution and large cities’ stress.
Their broad areas favor outdoor activities. Furthermore, the regions have in place the same comfort as large cities: shopping malls, CSSS, schools, universities, etc.
But WHAT TO DO?
PROMIS offers an assistance service to employment integration and to establishing oneself in a region. This service enables immigrant people to discover the different regions of Quebec as a whole. Thus, it enables them to explore the different employment possibilities offered to them throughout the province of Quebec, and to make an enlightened choice of the best place to establish themselves.
Eligibility Criteria
- To have received within less than 5 years of the immigration date, the Status of Received Immigrant or of Accepted Refugee
- To demonstrate a motivation to establish oneself in a region
- To have participated in a Job Search Workshop
Our team offers to you numerous services:
- Information workshops focused on Quebec and its regions
- Help in your job search in a region
- Matching CVs and Job offers coming from the regions
- Organization of professional exploration traveling
- Technical and financial support
- Follow-up and personal support throughout your course of action
- Information on region’s activities
For further information, please contact us at : (514) 345-1615 ext.: 236, 237 or 238
Program subsidized by : Le Ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés Culturelles (MICC)
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