AMSSA and its member agencies and stakeholders organize public community events, workshops for newcomers to Canada as well as professional development training, workshops, seminars and conferences for (re)settlement, language training diversity and inclusion sector employees. Community events and workshops which are continuous are listed below the calendar.
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AMSSA Lecture: Working with Newcomers on Unceded Territory
Working with Newcomers on Unceded Territory
with Norm Leech- Part 1
Norm Leech, Executive Director of the Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre and a well-known speaker, facilitator, and storyteller, will engage IRCC funded Service Providers to talk about the experience of Indigenous people in Canada. Through this two-part presentation, Norm will engage with frontline workers and managers to reflect on the past and seek commonality for a future together. Norm will share the Indigenous way of learning and communicating, teaching the participants about Indigenous people’s relationship between genders, relationship with the written word, and their relationship to the land.
Part 1:
Smudge and/or prayer and guided meditation
Talking about Indigenous people: What have you heard?
History and statistics
Spiritual connection to land; relationship not ownership
Timeline of colonization and inter-generational trauma
Closing meditation
Date: Monday October 19, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm (PT)
Location: Zoom | more details will be sent after registration
Ongoing Community Events/Programs
English Upgrading Classes for Adults
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 12:40 – 2:40 p.m.
September 2025 – January 2026
Free LINC classes for adults
September 2025 – January 2026
