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July 25, 2024

Supporting Ukrainian Evacuees Across Rural Alberta

Register for a FREE Train-the-Trainer Workshop Series  The Rural Development Network is excited to announce a five-part workshop series taking place from October to December 2024. These workshops are designed for individuals or groups who are currently providing settlement support...

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July 17, 2024

READI to Work 

Rural Immigration

READI to Work is a training program that supports business sustainability and addresses labour shortages by teaching successful practices for the recruitment, hiring, and retention of newcomer employees. Training is done through a hybrid model with employers across rural communities...

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July 17, 2024

Train the Trainer: Supporting Ukrainian Evacuees Across Rural Alberta

Rural Immigration

This project is designed to support rural communities, service providers, community-based organizations, immigrant-serving agencies, employment centres and municipalities in understanding the unique needs and barriers faced by Ukrainian evacuees settling in rural Albertan communities.    The training will include:  Background information...

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July 17, 2024

Rural Employers’ Awareness on Diversity and Inclusion (READI)

Rural Immigration

READI is a capacity-building training program created to support employers in rural communities with the successful attraction, settlement, and retention of immigrant employees. This training was done both virtually and in-person and was created to fill the gaps and challenges...

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July 17, 2024

Enabling Housing Choice

Housing

Working directly with communities in Alberta, EHC drives transformational, long-term policy change to support diverse, sustainable, and equitable housing development. EHC starts by analyzing existing housing in rural municipalities, documents local stakeholders’ insights, gathers information about housing challenges, barriers, and...

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July 10, 2024

Reaching Home (Active)

Homelessness

This funding is specific to communities and organizations supporting folks in rural and remote areas, including First Nations and Métis Settlements in Alberta. On-reserve projects are also eligible. Project activities must take place outside of the “Seven Cities” in Alberta...

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June 20, 2024

Event Planning & Coordination

Event Services

Our team has experience with event and conference planning, and can bring valuable expertise for our rural communities and partners. Our team is well-equipped to ensure the success of your events by offering support in logistics, planning, speaker management, and...

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June 20, 2024

Audio-Visual Event Services

Event Services

Our mission is to empower your organization with cutting-edge audio-visual solutions and hybrid live-streaming event services that help you communicate your message to a wider audience and make a lasting impact, all at an affordable price. Whether you're hosting your...

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June 20, 2024

Olds, Alberta Age-Friendly Action Plan 

Age-Friendly

A critical factor of ageing in place is having a community that enables older people to do what they have reason to value. According to the World Health Organization’s Global Age-friendly Cities:” A Guide; communities that are age-friendly encourage active...

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June 20, 2024

Guidebook for Housing Providers Supporting Ukrainian Evacuees in Alberta 

Housing, Housing Education to Support Ukrainian Evacuees in Alberta, Rural Immigration

With growing populations of Ukrainian evacuees across the province, it is also the reality that many more organizations, businesses, communities, groups, and individuals who may not specifically aim to support Ukrainian evacuees are and will be increasingly coming into contact...

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