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Communities we serve
Although Community and Neighbourhood Development (CND) works mainly with Farsi, Tamil and Horn of Africa - including the Somali, Ethiopean, Sudanese, Aroma and Eritrean communities, the program has established linkages with leaders of other communities opening the doors for collaboration on addressing issues common to most immigrant communities.
Large numbers of newcomers continuously arrive in Toronto, many from war-affected countries. Many have lost their homes, possessions, family, and friends. In Canada, they often struggle to meet basic needs, while dealing with significant language, employment, and cultural barriers.
The Community and Neighbourhood Development helps these communities adapt and contribute, creating a brighter more harmonious future. It also collaborates with other institutions, organizations or programs to understand better the needs of immigrant communities:
In April 2005, CND in cooperation with the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto organized a forum to disseminate the findings of a four-year mental health study titled "A Community in Distress" focused on the mental health needs, care, and settlement and adaptation issues faced by the Tamils living in Toronto. Read more >>
In 2004, with three-year funding from the Trillium Foundation, CND started the Building Bridges Program. The program goal is to bring together the Horn of Africa communities that have had the experience of war in their countries of origin and still feel the effect of war and displacement, and help them build capacity and community harmony.
In 2003-2004 in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, CND completed a research project on the impact of the Kosovo crisis on Serbian children in Toronto.
In 2001 - 2002, the Community and Neighbourhood Development collaborated with VAW program and participating communities to develop and implement ethno culturally appropriate violence prevention and education tools. A different tool was developed for each of the four vulnerable communities with which we work. These tools included Tamil public service announcements, Farsi poster and postcard with resources list, workshops in the Somali Community, and a Serbian booklet entitled "Violence in Serbian Families".
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