Settlement Services

At MNS we recognize how difficult adjusting to a new country can be – so we’re here to help. We offer free services for newcomers in Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Gujarati, Bengali, Telgu, Tamil, Oriya, Spanish, Italian and more.

Our Settlement team offers free support services including:

• Assistance filling out government documents including applications for Canadian landed status and citizenship, pension forms, child tax, Canadian passports, social insurance numbers, Ontario health insurance cards
• Assistance with translation and interpretation of documents
• Assistance in preparing documents for supportive housing accommodation

• Personal supportive counselling
  • Information on Canadian culture, schools, social life
  • Information sessions and workshops on settlement related issues, community matters
  • Free, walk-in legal clinic through our partnership with Mississauga Community Legal Services (available only at our Malton location)
  • Employment/career counselling, free job search workshops, information on labor market access
  • Help preparing resumes, cover letters and for job interviews
  • Referrals for mentoring for newcomer professionals
• Formal endorsement / attesting of settlement-related documents

Multicultural, Settlement and Education Partnership (MSEP)

About MSEP

Through our partnership with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Peel District School Board and the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, we offer settlement services to newcomer families using local schools as the primary point of contact.

Since schools are one of the first services newcomers connect with, our Settlement Workers in Schools (SWIS) provide information on:

• • • • • • • • Schools and education
              • Where to go to learn English
              • Finding a job
              • Housing for newcomer families
              • Health care
              • The law
              • Immigration
              • etc.

Our multi-lingual, multicultural SWIS team also:

• contact all newcomers in a particular school to help parents, guardians and students learn about the school and community-based services.

• facilitates communication between school staff and newcomers, often helping with interpretation.
• organizes group sessions on relevant topics such as, access to language training, housing issues, education-related workshops, etc.

• conducts Newcomer Orientation sessions about schools in August.

Finding the Settlement Worker in your School