We could leave a couple of calendars of our ELT project, just to show you how successful it is. This project is serving highly skilled immigrants in getting them back into their field of work. We have high-end employment services. We also have basic services. We have an introduction to employment and Canadian work culture, a program called Steps to Employment. We have a family services unit that we are building. We have an unusually high number of refugee clients with complex needs. There has been a lot of wonderful jointly assisted sponsorship.
We have a vision. When the changes were made to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, it was decided that we would deal with more compassionate and humanitarian cases. But the money wasn't available for it. So we set up on site, without funding, a health assessment clinic with Public Health. We have a formal partnership with the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region and the Regina Community Clinic to deliver specialized and culturally sensitive health care. We have initial assessments done with all our refugee clients. Now we are getting some funding through the United Way to have a full-time social worker on staff to help our settlement staff. Some settlement caseworkers don't have the education or the skills to deal with some of the complex situations that come up, so the United Way has helped us. We can now refer clients from our settlement unit to our family services unit.
We have everything from airport reception to services for highly skilled immigrants. There are still some gaps—we're trying to do more for children and youth. But we would like our province and our nation to be proud of the hard work we've done. We want to serve everyone at the same level, and we don't want to see barriers obstructing those of us who are trying to help and welcome newcomers.
