Building Blocks Of Community Sponsorship
Guidebook And Planning Tools Based on Canada's Model
Overview
- Introduction
- Models & Operational Details
- A. Refugees: From Eligibility to Arrival
- A.1 Who is Eligible to be sponsored?
- A.2 What resources and partnerships are required to process privately sponsored refugees?
- A.3 What information and resources are provided to refugees prior to their arrival in their resettlement country?
- A.4 How are sponsorship-eligible refugees identified?
- A.5 How are sponsors and refugees in contact pre-arrival?
- A.6 How are refugees screened?
- A.7 How does overseas processing by UNHCR work?
- A.8 How are refugees transported and how are destinations chosen?
- B. Sponsors: From Mobilization to Engagement
- B.1 How can private actors be mobilized to support refugee resettlement?
- B.2 What other options to support refugees are available to private actors?
- B.3 Who is eligible to sponsor and what is their relationship to government?
- B.4 How are eligible sponsors screened?
- B.5 What are sponsors' responsibilities?
- B.6 What steps do sponsors need to take to prepare for the refugees’ arrival?
- B.7 What training and resources are available to sponsors prior to and after refugees’ arrival?
- C. Settlement and Integration
- C.1 What is the status of refugees upon arrival?
- C.2 What arrangements are made for housing?
- C.3 How is job search and training treated?
- C.4 What post-arrival supports are available beyond those provided by sponsors?
- C.5 How are physical, mental, and dental health treated?
- C.6 How is education treated?
- C.7 How is cultural orientation treated?
- C.8 How is language treated?
- C.9 What costs need to be considered and who covers them?
- D. Refugee-Sponsor Relationship
- D.1 What happens if the sponsoring group wants to withdraw its application before the refugees arrive?
- D.2 What intervention can mitigate risks of sponsorship breakdown?
- D.3 What happens if a dispute between sponsors and refugees cannot be resolved?
- D.4 What happens at the end of the sponsorship period?
- D.5 What special considerations may apply when relatives are among the sponsors?
- A. Refugees: From Eligibility to Arrival
- Case Studies
- Refugee Sponsorship in a Rural Community
- A Synagogue’s experience sponsoring refugees of another faith
- Students helping students through unique settlement programs
- Lessons learned by a large sponsoring group
- A sponsoring organization that welcomes members of the LGBTQ community to Canada
- All about Sponsorship Agreement Holders
- The experience of a business sponsoring refugees
- Training and information for refugee sponsors in Canada
- Organizing Sponsorship Agreement Holders in Canada