—such as permanent residents and conventional refugees.
Sixth, offer support to provide settlement services for international students. The current funding model does not reflect this demographic, and the provincial funding is insufficient to adequately serve this growing population.
Finally, our team is very successful at connecting people on a social level within the settlement circle. However, there is a local gap in addressing systemic racism. Adequate support for settlement service providers to drive and actively engage in anti-racism efforts would be helpful, although we acknowledge that IRCC has launched programs recently to support such initiatives.