Deadline: 4-Jan-22
The Alberta has announced supports for Newcomer Integration (SNI) grants to provide settlement and integration services to support newcomers to reach their full economic potential while they live and work in Alberta.
Alberta Settlement and Integration Program (ASIP) promotes and complements the effective distribution of services across the province. Through the call for proposals (CFP), Supports for Newcomer Integration (SNI) grants will provide settlement and language supports and services for newcomers while they live and work in Alberta, ensuring they have the appropriate supports to reach their full economic potential.
SNI grants contribute to the overall infrastructure of the immigration service delivery system in Alberta.
Focus Areas
The program seeks to optimize the immigration system and economic integration experience of newcomers through four prioritized areas of focus:
- Improve settlement information accessibility: Improve information delivery of settlement services for more timely access and address gaps in settlement information.
- Build communities’ receptive capacity to better serve newcomers’ needs: Develop the capacity of communities, which includes workplaces and service-providing organizations, to support newcomers as well as increase public awareness, knowledge and understanding of newcomer needs, and intercultural communications competence.
- Respond to emerging needs and under-served clients: Target supports to meet the needs of particular immigrant groups and regions that require unique or additional support.
- Support initiatives that will result in improved newcomer labour market integration outcomes: Improve information sharing among employers and organizations (third party and government), connect newcomers to appropriate existing programs and services, and support workplace integration.
Streams
- The 2022-2024 SNI CFP will include three streams:
- Stream 1: Settlement and Community Supports Services: This stream will fund settlement services to provide newcomers the supports they need while they live and work in Alberta.
- Your budget should fall within the range of $250 – $400 cost per client.
- Stream 2: Language Assessment and Referral Services: This stream will fund services to provide newcomers with English language assessment, and help identify training options on their pathway to labour market attachment.
- Your budget should fall within the range of $200 – $250 cost per client.
- Stream 3: English as an Additional Language (EAL) Drop-in Services: This stream will fund alternative, flexible and short-term English language learning opportunities.
- Your budget should fall within the range of $350 – $600 cost per client.
- Stream 1: Settlement and Community Supports Services: This stream will fund settlement services to provide newcomers the supports they need while they live and work in Alberta.
- Grants are limited to 24 months in duration (April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2024), with the possibility of extension for 12 additional months.
Note: Applicants may submit more than one proposal. Due to the potential for conflict of interest, an organization is not eligible to apply to both the Language Assessment and Referral Services and English as an Additional Language Drop-in Services streams.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants for all three streams are:
- Non-profit organizations
- Eligible organizations must:
- be a legal and registered entity in Alberta;
- have the ability, including financial management, to implement a grant agreement; and
- be able to demonstrate their ability to deliver the service activities in the stream(s) to which they are applying. In addition, applicants must meet the following:
- Stream 1: Applicants must have a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience providing settlement and integration services to newcomers.
- Stream 2: Applicants must have a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience providing English language assessment and educational support services to newcomers.
- Stream 3: Applicants must have a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience providing language support and language training services to newcomers.
For more information, visit https://www.alberta.ca/supports-for-newcomer-integration-grants.aspx