Local Immigration Partnerships
Local Immigration Partnerships (LIPs) are regional, municipal, or neighbourhood coalitions, funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada, and designed to strengthen local capacity to attract newcomers and improve integration outcomes, as indicated by enhanced economic, social, political, and civic participation. LIPs operate through formal agreements that establish broad- based partnership councils. These Councils are charged with developing and implementing strategies and action plans aimed at producing more welcoming communities.
LIP coalitions involve diverse stakeholders including, among others, immigrant and mainstream service providers; municipalities; federal and provincial agencies; employer associations; health rganizations; ethno-cultural and religious groups; school boards, and academic institutions. As such, LIPs are important focal points for increasing provincial and municipal engagement and promoting strategic alignments and better coordination among service providers and other institutions.
This link offers one-stop access to key LIP documents and contact information. In addition, the Best Practices Corner – Community Toolkits and Resources – contains toolkits and information for the development of LIP councils, strategies and action plans; and the library houses reports, conference presentations and other material that relate to the LIPs.
LIPs are currently active throughout Ontario and are just getting underway in the Prairies and Atlantic Canada. Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced its intention to roll out the LIP program to other regions in the course of 2012-13 and 2013-14. Information will be added to the regional fields on this website as it becomes available.
Toronto Neighbourhood LIPs (show)
3
Central South Etobicoke
6
Eglinton East–Kennedy Park
Call for Proposals for Calgary LIP
CLIP CFP – English
CLIP CFP – French
Application Form
Call for Proposals for Southern Alberta Small Centre LIPs
Southern Alberta Small Centre LIPs CFP – English
Southern Alberta Small Centre LIPs CFP – French
Application Form
CIC Calgary and Partners:
Alberta Human Services,
United Way Calgary and
FCSS City of Calgary
Would like to thank you for attending the
Calgary Local Immigration Partnership Stakeholder Engagement held on November 24, 2011.
We are very pleased with enthusiastic response we had to our invitation and the level of participation in the table discussions. As we communicated at the meeting, we are sharing with you a summary of the conversations we heard that day. We would encourage you to read the report and continue to have conversations with each other. For those that expressed interest in being part of this initiative and for those that were unable to attend that day, there will be further opportunities to contribute and to have your voices heard as we move forward with the establishment of the Calgary Local Immigration Partnership.
What we heard very clearly is that there is both a need and a desire in the community to engage further and to collaborate with each other on ensuring the successful integration of newcomers to Calgary. We are committed to providing a vehicle which will enable this process.
Your input will help to define what we are looking for as we proceed to develop and distribute the Call for Proposals for the CLIP. You can expect the Call for Proposals to come out in January 2012. We would encourage a collaborative approach in responding to this call.
We would especially like to thank a small group of people that responded to our call for help and demonstrated that when we work together we can accomplish great things. Thank you to the following people which helped to make our event a success:
Marichu Antonio from the Ethno-Cultural Council of Calgary (ECCC)
Bill Dodd with Calgary Police Services
Isabel Gibbons from Bow Valley College
Bruce Randall from Calgary Regional Immigration Economic Council (CRIEC)
Sharon Seward from Calgary Catholic Board of Education
Harry Yee from Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth (CBFY)
Please feel free to share this document with others that are interested in the success of newcomers and to encourage them to get involved.
Thank you again for your participation and interest in the CLIP.
Robert Ferguson, CIC Calgary
Alice Wong, Alberta Human Services
Jaime Enachescu, United Way of Calgary
Jason Luan, FCSS City of Calgary
Download: CLIP Engagement Event Conversation Summary
Download: Local Immigration Partnerships: A Collaborative Community Approach
A presentation about welcoming communities is available here.
