Event information:

Each family is unique, with a number of different factors influencing parenting styles, including family structure, culture, values, beliefs, language, health, education and location, to name a few. Newcomer families often juggle integration while preserving their own cultures and languages. As a result, parenting styles or expectations may be different and newcomers may have difficulty adapting or blending their parenting style once in Canada.

This E-Symposium will look at parenting from a newcomer perspective, discuss various settlement supports that influence parenting in Canada, and learn the role of the educator and the curriculum taught in the school system.

This E-Symposium will discuss the role that settlement staff and LINC instructors play in the adaptation process.

Event Details:

• Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2017
• Time: 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (PDT)
• Location: Online
• Registration deadline: Monday, July 10, 2017 at 3:00 pm

To register, click here.

Presenters:

• Frances Clarke, Online Resource Developer for LINC Programs, ISSofBC
• Jaswinder Sandhu, Settlement Counselor, Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society
• Khatereh Masudi, Settement Worker in Schools (SWIS) Coordinator, North Shore Multicultural Society’
• Nina Vacca, LINC childcare Manager, Collingwood Neighbourhood House