The Durham Region Unemployed Help Centre understands the difficulties associated with moving to a new country, and so we provide services to help new Canadians. If you're a recent immigrant looking for work, sign up for our Job Search Workshop. It's a program specifically designed to help immigrants find employment in Canada. Find out what people have said about this workshop.
We also understand how hard it can be to know what public services are available to you in a new community. To help you become familiar with the Durham Region, we've put together a list of links that you might find useful.
Our Job Search Workshop is designed to help recent immigrants learn about the job search process in Canada. We have helped people from a variety of countries, including China, India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cuba, Korea, and many more. Offered free of charge, the workshop has a very high success rate of 70%.
This non-profit organization offers a wide range of services to help immigrants feel settled in their new communities, including counselling, language services, information and referral in the areas of immigration, housing and education, and many more. Services are offered in over 10 different languages.
The WMRCC offers free and confidential services to all women. It provides individual counselling, group counselling, support groups for abused women, and public education on a variety of issues.
The purpose of these organizations is to welcome newcomers to the community. There are clubs in Ajax, Newcastle, Oshawa, Pickering, and Whitby
Funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Integration-Net supports the integration of refugees and immigrants by providing hundreds of integration-related resources for both newcomers as well as service providers in the settlement sector.
There is generally a three-month waiting period between applying for your Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP) card, and receiving it. During this period, newcomers should obtain outside health insurance from a private insurance company.
After this time, OHIP cardholders have health insurance that is covered across Canada.
For more information about the Durham Region, visit our Community Links page.
You can locate your local Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario website.
You can locate your local Federal Member of Parliament (MP) at the Government of Canada website.
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