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Organization:
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Somali Centre for Family Services - Ottawa
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Address:
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1719 & 1729 Bank St, Suite 200
Ottawa, ON
K1V 7Z4
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Map
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Intersection:
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Bank St and Alta Vista Dr
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Service Description:
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Multiethnic centre offering services for refugees, immigrants and residents
Settlement services include:
- Needs assessment and information and referral to community and social services
- Support finding housing, child care, health care, registering children in school
- Help filling out government forms including housing
- Community support: volunteer befriending, conversation circles (English only)
- Connecting to language classes
- Stress reduction workshops for adjusting to Canadian culture
- Citizenship Test preparation classes
- Short-term counselling
- Job search centre
- Employment counselling, skills and career development
- Settlement workers in schools - outreach program in elementary and secondary schools
- Yearly income tax return clinic for low-income newcomers
Additional services include:
- Youth programs
- Senior services
- Community capacity building
- Counselling
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Application:
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Call for an appointment or drop-in
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Eligibility / Target Population:
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Refugees, immigrants and residents in need of settlement, immigration and other services
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Languages:
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English * French * Arabic * Somali * Swahili * Pashto * Persian * Amharic * Tigrinya * Afar
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