Welcoming Communities Initiative

a multidisciplinary alliance of universities, colleges, and community organizations dedicated to promoting the integration of immigrants and minorities across Ontario

Best Practices Corner

The multi-media Best Practices Corner gathers together WCI and other research on promising practices in the area of newcomer attraction, settlement, integration, and welcoming communities.  As well, the Corner provides ready access to tools, measures, and resources aimed at promoting integration, combating racism and discrimination, and improving planning and community development.  The aim is to equip service providers, governments, and other practitioners with information about promising practices and, critically, about the internal and external conditions that are essential to their success and would need to be replicated to utilize them across locations.  The Best Practices Corner also provides one-stop access to interesting work originating outside the WCI that can help stakeholders evaluate, measure, plan, design, and improve policies, programs, and other interventions.


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Community Toolkits and Resources

Advisory and educational resources and reports by governments, research organizations and not-for-profit groups.


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Reports

Repository of WCI reports assessing promising practices and evaluating policy and program interventions and methods.


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Videos

WCI interviews with practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and service providers.


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Anti-Discrimination and Anti-Racism Observatory

Searchable compendium of tools and measures for assessing and combating racism and discrimination.


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    The Welcoming Communities Initiative (WCI) is a multidisciplinary alliance of universities, colleges, and community organizations dedicated to promoting the integration of immigrants and minorities across Ontario.

    To achieve this goal, the WCI seeks to implement a comprehensive program of research aimed at devising, improving and testing measures to attract, retain, and integrate newcomers, including students and foreign workers, in cities, towns and less populated locales. Many of these communities would like to grow their economies, renew their populace, and reinvigorate their labour markets.

    The WCI favours research that combines local expertise with academic scholarship in order to address practical concerns and challenges. In particular, the Initiative promotes comparative work that engages local stakeholders, scrutinizes promising practices, communicates effectively, and drives innovation and improvements.