Settlement Workers support families during their first three years in Canada, and help assist them with immediate needs including:
- Outreach to new immigrant families
- Information and counselling on initial settlement
- Orientation to school and community services
- Referral and service linking to community and government services
- Cultural interpretation
- Settlement workshops
- Youth support
- Parenting workshops
For a Directory of Immigrant & Refugee Programs, Services and Organizations, please see the Burnaby School District Settlement Worker Community Resource
In the Burnaby School District, we have Settlement Workers to support you in the following languages:
♦ Arabic ♦ French ♦ Serbian ♦ Bosnian
♦ Korean ♦ Spanish ♦ Croatian ♦ Kurdish
♦ Swahili ♦ English ♦ Urdu ♦ Mandarin/Cantonese
♦ Russian ♦ Vietnamese ♦ Farsi