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June 20, 2024

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June 20, 2024

Our team works collaboratively to identify challenges in welcoming newcomers, and develop training, policies, and resources to better attract, retain and settle newcomers in rural areas. How We Can Help Welcoming newcomers to rural communities and workplaces requires an understanding...

June 19, 2024

In Our Hands was a co-operative entrepreneurship (“co-opreneurship”) program that aimed to facilitate the development of co-operative enterprises that meet the employment needs and entrepreneurial aspirations of Canadian newcomers. The goal of the project was to support newcomers to Canada...

June 19, 2024

This project, done in partnership with an immigrant-serving agency, provided a four-part virtual training to participants to help them better attract, settle, and retain newcomers into rural communities for the long term. Upon completion of the project, a toolkit was...

June 19, 2024

Based on a previous work of RDN and The Centre for Civic Religious Literacy (CCRL) in Temiskaming Shores and our dialogue with the Temiskaming Shores & Area Chambers of Commerce (TSACC), we learned that employers in the region have a...

June 18, 2024

June 18, 2024

How We Can Help Rural homelessness and houselessness looks different than in urban centres, and requires a unique approach to address housing & service needs. Our team works with you to clearly identify community needs through data collection, develop recommendations...

June 18, 2024

Shelter Pulse was created through a partnership between the Rural Development Network (RDN) and Mountain Rose Women's Shelter Association (MRWSA). Rural women’s shelters had expressed the need for increased capacity for policy development and maintenance with a specific focus on...

June 18, 2024

We recognize that many urban and designated Reaching Home (RH) communities across Canada are currently developing and implementing formal Coordinated Access (CA) systems; however, service providers in rural, remote, and Indigenous communities do not always have the same capacity for...

June 18, 2024

The First Nation Data Collection team co-created a culturally sensitive and trauma-informed data collection toolkit that can be tailored to the unique needs of individual First Nation Communities. It allows First Nations communities across Turtle Island to better understand and...