Centre communitaire francophone Windsor, Essex, Kent offers services to recent school-aged newcomers through settlement worker placed in schools throughout the region. Sometimes, young immigrant students have difficulties adapting to scholastic settings. The settlement workers working in the schools create the link between the schools, families and society.

The program, instituted in 1999 by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), aids new immigrants to fully develop skills to blend in with their new school settings and also in their neighbourhoods.

Services Offered

The settlement workers:

• maintain contact with the parents, tutors (for the students in secondary schools) to assist in the maintenance of any questions regarding assimilation and integration

• assist families with finding resources in their communities and also special assistance for those with various needs

• help the personnel in the schools to understand the needs of the immigrated children in regards to cultural aspects

The mission of the settlement workers is to facilitate the integration and scholastic success of newly immigrated children in French primary and secondary schools of both the public and catholic school boards. They also help to facilitate the integration of both the students and their families in their communities.