Supports for Newcomer Integration grants

Overview

Supports for Newcomer Integration grants help organizations to provide settlement and language supports and services for newcomers living and working in Alberta. This ensures that newcomers have the appropriate supports to reach their full economic potential. The current grant agreements will expire on March 31, 2027.

This page will contain information on applying for grant funding when future application intakes open.

Grant streams

There are 3 grant streams under this program. Due to the potential for conflict of interest, organizations cannot apply to both stream 2 and stream 3 at the same time.

Stream 1: Settlement and community support services

This stream funds settlement and integration supports for newcomers that are ineligible for federally funded services.

Eligible beneficiaries include:

• naturalized Canadian citizens
• temporary residents who hold a work permit under the:
  • Temporary Foreign Worker program
  • International Mobility Program
  • Post-Graduation Work Permit program
• refugee claimants

Stream 2: English as an additional language drop-in services

This stream funds alternative, flexible and short-term English learning language opportunities.

Eligible beneficiaries include:

• permanent residents
• naturalized Canadian citizens

If seats are available and no permanent residents or naturalized Canadian citizens are on the wait list, the program may include refugee claimants and temporary residents with a work permit.

Stream 3: Language assessment and referral services

This stream funds services to provide newcomers with English language assessment and support to identify training options on their pathway to labour market attachment.

Eligible beneficiaries include:

• permanent residents
• naturalized Canadian citizens

Funded grants

These grants are funded until March 31, 2027.

Settlement and language services

Through the Alberta Settlement and Integration Program, Alberta’s government provides funding to settlement agencies for settlement services and immigrant-serving agencies for language support services to eligible newcomers living and working in Alberta.

Funded settlement agencies

• Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (serving clients in Calgary and surrounding communities in Southern Alberta)
  • Phone: 403-262-2006
• Catholic Social Services (serving clients in Edmonton and Red Deer)
  • Edmonton phone: 780-432-1137
  • Red Deer phone: 403-346-8818
• Centre d'accueil pour nouveaux arrivants francophones – Settlement services for Francophone newcomers in Calgary and southern Alberta.
  • Calgary phone: 403-532-6334
• Centre for Newcomers (serving clients in Calgary and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 403-569-3325
  • Email: info@centrefornewcomers
• Edmonton Immigrant Services Association (serving clients in Edmonton and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 780-474-8445
• Francophonie Canadienne Plurielle Société (serving clients in Edmonton region, Fort McMurray and Red Deer)
  • Edmonton Main Office (La Cité Francophone) phone: 780-540-8682
  • Edmonton North Office (Northgate Mall) phone: 825-480-4537
  • Fort McMurray phone: 780-750-8153
  • Red Deer phone: 403-967-1773
• Grande Prairie Centre for Newcomers (serving clients in Grande Prairie and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 780-538-4452
• Kneehill Adult Learning Society (serving clients in Kneehill and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 403-443-5556
• Lethbridge Family Services (serving clients in Lethbridge and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 403-320-1589
• Taber District Community Adult Learning Association (serving clients in Taber and surrounding communities)
  • Phone: 403-223-1169
• YMCA of Northern Alberta (serving clients in the Wood Buffalo region and surrounding communities)
  • Email: [email protected]
• For temporary residents from Ukraine under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for emergency travel visa, visit Support for Ukrainian evacuees for more information on settlement supports.

Funded language services

• Language assessment services provide assessments and referral information to provincial training options, such as English as an additional language, integrated training, immigrant bridging and other skills training and post-secondary training.
• Counselling services assist newcomers to identify education or training options related to their language abilities and needs on a pathway to labour market attachment.
• There are 2 language assessment and referral centres in Alberta.
  • Catholic Social Services’ Language Assessment, Referral and Counselling Centre serves clients in Edmonton and northern communities.
    Phone: 780-424-3545
  • Immigrant Services Calgary Language Assessment and Referral Centre serves clients in Calgary and southern communities.
    Phone: 403-265-1120

Drop-in English as an additional language classes

We provide funding to organizations that offer alternative, flexible and short-term English language learning opportunities to newcomers to improve or maintain their English proficiency.

Drop-in classes are offered through the following organizations:

• Cultural Connections Institute – The Learning Exchange
  • Phone: 780-944-0792
• The Immigrant Education Society (TIES)
  • Phone: 403-235-3666
• Taber & District Community Adult Learning Association
  • Phone: 403-223-1169

Contact

Connect with the Alberta Settlement and Integration Program:
Email: [email protected]