Bow Valley Integration Assessment (2014)
The Bow Valley’s first integration assessment.
In February 2014, organizations in the Bow Valley received funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) [now Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada] to form a Local Immigration Partnership and produce a settlement and integration strategy for the region.
Working backwards from a vision of full inclusion and integration, BVIP stakeholders sought to identify and measure relevant local indicators of integration using a report for CIC [IRCC], The Characteristics of a Welcoming Community (Esses et al. 2010), as a framework.