WE Belong Podcast

213 - Keziah and CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses

Keziah studied nursing back home in Ghana, and hoped to use her skills and experience to practice nursing here in Windsor-- but found that the process to become a registered nurse in Ontario was more complicated than expected. Thankfully, she had support from CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses to help her navigate the system. Mary Strong, a Case Manager for CARE joins us to tell us more about their programs and services. Visit www.care4nurses.org to learn more.

212 - Irek Kusmierczyk and the TeaMWork Project

Irek and his family came to Canada as political refugees from Poland when he was 5 years old. Since then, he has served his community and country as Windsor City Councillor and Member of Parliament, and currently oversees the TeaMWork Project which supports Temporary Foreign Workers.

211 - Kelsey Santarossa: Immigration and Workforce Development

Kelsey Santarossa, Director of Community and Workforce Development at Workforce WindsorEssex, discusses the intersection of immigration and workforce development in the region while reflecting on the ongoing work to develop a community and labour market plan, as well as the stories shared over the first ten episodes of Season 2 of the WE Belong Podcast.

210 - Liena & Beraka et l'école secondaire Sainte Trinité

Liena et Beraka sont venues au Canada du Burundi afin de commencer de nouvelles vies, et elles poursuivent leurs études à l’école secondaire catholique Sainte-Trinité, qui fait part du CSC Providence. 

209 - Dani and The Pop Yard

In Brazil, Dani started running pop-up markets as a passion project to do outside of her day job. Now she's brought her passion to Windsor through the Pop Yard, which has been giving opportunities to other newcomer creators to share and sell their work.

208 - Niku and Arts Council Windsor & Region

Niku, an artist from Iran, came to Windsor originally as an international student. By connecting with the local arts community-- and supported by the Arts Council Windsor & Region's Creatives at Work Artist Residency Program -- she was able to find belonging in this city she now calls home.

207 - Jolyan and St Michael's Adult Catholic High School

Jolyan spent his first ten years in his home country Iraq, before spending another ten years as a refugee in Turkey. Now he's starting a new life in Canada, and is finding his place here in Windsor with the support of St Michael's Adult Catholic High School. Doug Sadler, the principal at St. Mike's, joins to tell us more about the school.

206-EN- French Language Health Services in Windsor-Essex (ENGLISH VERSION)

Ayah Karra-Aly, Planning and Community Engagement Officer for the French Language Health Planning Centre, discusses the importance of -- and the ongoing work to improve -- the availability of french-language health services in Windsor-Essex.
This episode is also available in french (previous episode).
Cette épisode est également disponible en français (épisode précédente).

206-FR- Services de santé en français à Windsor-Essex (VERSION FRANÇAISE)

Ayah Karra-Aly, Agente de plannification et d'engagement communautaire pour le Centre de planification des services de santé en français (CPSSF) discute de l’importance — et du travail en cours pour améliorer — la disponibilité des services de santé en français à Windsor-Essex.
Une version anglaise de cette épisode est disponible aussi (prochaine).
An english version of this episode is also available (next episode).

205 - Surria Fadel - Cedar Valley: A Welcoming Employer

Surria's pita chip company Cedar Valley, which she co-founded with her son, started as a small business idea born from a school project and has grown to be a nationwide success. But that success hasn't distracted her from her passion for supporting the community and providing job opportunities to newcomers.