Umbrella organization for immigrant-serving agencies in Ontario

• expert on immigrant and refugee issues
• advocate for the Immigrant-Serving Sector
• stimulates and conducts research for the sector
• information exchange among member agencies

Accessibility Initiative (AI), ocasi.org/accessibility - Training for settlement sector employees to better serve immigrants with disabilities

Canadian Network for Equity and Racial Justice (CNERJ), ocasi.org/canadian-network-equity-racial-justice-cnerj - Ongoing working group of civil society leaders, including representatives of the community, business, media, academic, education, philanthropic, labour, arts, sport, and health sectors

Immigrant and Refugee Communities, Neighbours, Friends & Families, immigrantandrefugeenff.ca - Ontario-wide campaign to raise awareness about the signs of woman abuse and to promote bystander intervention

Equity Stream Fund Program, ocasi.org/program/equity-stream-fund - Enables OCASI to strengthen capacity of Grassroots Community Organizations (GCOs) - particularly those outside IRCC's current funding streams ensuring they can actively contribute to Ontario's refugee and immigrant-serving sector

Mental Health Promotion, ocasi.org/mental-health-promotion - Builds capacity of immigrant and refugee services to promote newcomer mental health and wellbeing, and respond to mental health issues; project works with immigrant and refugee serving organizations, primary health, and the mental health sector to support implementation of a service delivery model for mental health promotion

Newcomer Donation Network (NDN), NewcomerDonations.ca - Centralized tool designed to connect public donation offers with community agencies and newcomers in need

Professional Education and Training (PET), ocasi.org/professional-education-and-training-pet- Financial support to settlement practitioners to facilitate their access to professional development opportunities, upgrade their individual skills, and gain knowledge through group workshops; also provides settlement practitioners access to online e-learning course

Positive Spaces Initiative, positivespaces.ca - Website with information and resources to help agencies better serve LGBTQIA+ newcomers (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, two-spirit, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, pansexual, genderqueer)

SettleNet.org, settlenet.org - Bilingual National Settlement Sector Community of Practice (CoP) where settlement sector staff, leaders and those in related fields can learn, share, connect and collaborate