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1 Services thin on the ground : Welcome to BC s north Anisa Zehtab-Martin Catherine Nolin, Greg Halseth & Neil Hanlon University of Northern British Columbia WDCAG - Western Washington University March 8, 2008 Bellingham, WA
2 Outline Correlation between New Emerging Team for Health in Rural and Northern BC (NETHRN) and Warmth of Welcome NETHRN - CIHR overview Warmth of welcome SSHRC overview Community Development Institute How are the two projects related? Discussion
3 Primary investigators: Neil Hanlon & Greg Halseth NETHRN Project Overview Community of academics, policy makers, and graduate students UNBC component: shifting roles and relationships between formal & informal sectors
4 NETHRN Project Overview Primary investigators: Neil Hanlon & Greg Halseth Restructuring of health care services Stress on formal care sector Dependence on informal care sector Formal and informal care providers for households under stress Lone parent Recently unemployed Permanent disability Chronic illness
5 NETHRN Project Overview Primary investigators: Greg Halseth & Neil Hanlon
6 NETHRN Project Overview Primary investigators: Neil Hanlon & Greg Halseth Summer 2005 (Exploratory) Service Provider Interviews (n=88) Fall 2006 (Exploratory) Service User Interviews Focus Group (n=7) Interviews (n=32) Service Provider Interviews (n=30) Summer 2007 (In-depth) Service User Interviews (n=29) Service Provider Interviews (n=40)
7 NETHRN Project Overview Primary investigators: Neil Hanlon & Greg Halseth Key Themes Formal service reduction Insufficient funding Partnerships Cohesion and adaptation Unstable volunteer structure Lack of access, volunteer availability Thin on the ground
8 Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Warmth of Welcome Immigrants moving to rural and northern communities Settle, integrate, and access services
9 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Purpose: Examine the settlement, social and economic integration, and retention of immigrants and refugees in northern BC Affiliation with Immigrant and Multicultural Service Society (IMSS) Regionalization
10 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Role of IMSS UNBC partnership with IMSS Only immigrant service in the north Daunting challenge to expand services
11 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Summer 2007 Prince George Terrace Fort St. John
12 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Exploratory Community capacity to offer a warmth of welcome Roundtable (n= 3) Municipal governments, business community, and policy makers Interviews (n= 25) Service provider community
13 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Canadian government so-called regionalization Canadian government recognizes long-term benefits Rural and northern communities have yet to benefit
14 Warmth of Welcome Primary investigators: Catherine Nolin & Greg Halseth Settlement patterns Employment Education Health Limited services, spatially concentrated Settlement service for the entire north operates in Prince George Services for immigrants are really thin on the ground
15 How are the two projects related?
16 How are the two projects related? Access to care services is difficult Complex system Exacerbated for newcomers due to lack of formal and informal services Language Mobility Lack of immigrant specific services Formal and informal partnering
17 Discussion Joint research agenda with IMSS First endeavor of its kind in northern BC Long-term community university research collaboration
18 Discussion Key issues Access Language, terms Cultural norms and practices Settlement Services English as a Second Language (ESL) vs. English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
19 Discussion Policy Implications Research and policy focus on urban immigration A new initiative Provincial Nominee Program Research needed Ethnographic work Summer 2008
20 Photo by: Katie McCallum Photo by: Katie McCallum Photo by: Katie McCallum Photo by: Anisa Zehtab-Martin
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