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London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership

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Agenda

LMLIP Inclusion & Civic Engagement Sub-council Location: Carling Heights Community Centre – Room A

Date: January 10, 2019 Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Item Description

1. Land Acknowledgement Statement

2. Chair’s Opening Remarks

3. Additions to Agenda

4. Adoption of November 08, 2018 minutes

5. Declaration of Conflict of Interest

6. Central Council November 26, 2018 updates: Rose Aquino

7. ICE Sub-council 2018-2019 Updates

a. I am London

b. Volunteer Event

c. Leadership inventory

8. Strategic Planning 2019-2022 – Discuss and Finalize

9. Information Sharing

10. Chairperson’s Closing Summary and Review of Action Items

11. Adjourn

Next Meeting: March 07, 2019, 3:00-4:30 pm – Carling Heights Community Centre – Room A

Upcoming meetings: TBD


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Minutes

LMLIP Inclusion & Civic Engagement (ICE) Sub-council

Date and Time: January 10, 2019 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Meeting Location: Carling Heights Present: Rose Aquino, Jutta Zeller-Beier, Flora Lan, Huda Hussein, Robin Armistead, Christina Lord, Dharshi Lacey

Regrets: Afeez Ajibowu, Mahin Ghasemiyani, Katy Boychuk, Valy Marochko, Ghadeir Madlol

Item Description

Information, Update, Action, Lead and Due Date

1. Land Acknowledgement and Chair’s Opening Remarks

Rose Aquino read the Land Acknowledgement and welcomed the group.

2. Agenda

Agenda was moved by Christina Lord, seconded by Dharshi Lacey and approved.

3. Adoption of Previous Minutes

November 8, 2018 minutes were moved by Flora Lan, seconded by Rose and approved.


None was declared.

5. Central Council Updates: Rose Aquino

- Pathways to Prosperity (P2P) conference, held in November, had interesting and helpful topics and presentations. More information is available on the website http://p2pcanada.ca/library/p2p-preconference-of-the-local-immigration-partnerships-paving-the-way-for-our-future-a-conference-for-lip-engagement-and-sustainability/

- I am London faces:

Group was informed about the positive news coverage the first set of faces received

Members were requested to share and like posts on social media for extra coverage.

The I am London posters will be printed soon for distribution.

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) students presented their findings from the November 5 Consultation which included:

- Carry over some themes from the prior plan - New themes to focus on are family integration support and mental health; role of

family, inclusivity and diversity, welcoming communities and more coordination.

6. ICE Sub Council 2018-2019 Implementation Plan Updates and Planning:

http://p2pcanada.ca/library/p2p-preconference-of-the-local-immigration-partnerships-paving-the-way-for-our-future-a-conference-for-lip-engagement-and-sustainability/




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- The March 7 ‘Ready to Volunteer’ and I am London joint event will be held at the South London Neighbourhood Resource centre. The idea is to have a joint event with the “I am London” work group. Next step is to have a "Ready to volunteer and I am London" work group meeting.

- Leadership Inventory: There has been no response to the emails sent. The list which has 45 programs in the inventory chart will be shared as is in terms of content. A volunteer is needed to create a design for the chart. Jutta will reach out to her contacts.

- I am London: Polina

- So far eight individuals have been featured - November: Alba Cielo Velasquez, Delveen Al Naamo, Afeez Ajibowu - December: May Ali, Fan Liu, Stanislav Rajic - January faces: Emilio Barbero, Eman Arnout

7. Strategic Planning 2019-2022 – Review current Strategic Plan to identify projects for 2019-2022 Plan

- The Sub-council reviewed the plan. The following are some of the areas of focus:

o Look at revitalizing the leadership theme o Information and education through workshops/sessions o Enhancing knowledge – continue with “I am London” campaign o Untapped immigrant volunteer participation o Engage students in researching the process of volunteering at various

public institutions such as hospitals

- The plan will be edited and sent back for review and then shared at the next Central Council.

- It will need to be finalized for the March meeting.

8. Study interviews: Jutta Zeller-Beier

No update: will work on getting updates for next meeting


- Black history month is coming up. Christina will share information when ready for the LMLIP to distribute

- March 19 Welcoming Community event is being planned at Museum London. Planning is under way. More information to be shared once finalized.

- Opening doors session is February 13 at the Cherryhill Library - Will share flyers/posters soon and all members can share and/or participate - One of the members attended an International Human Rights Day event. While

there was an entrance fee, the member observed that it was a great event and it would be good to partner with it next year.

- There were eight faith groups which participated in the “All are welcome” campaign this year. A tweet commented asking why only so few?

- There is a new Diversity Officer at the London Police Service - There is a Networking for an Inclusive Community (NIC) meeting next week


Rose thanked the group for attending.

Polina to look at location for next ICE meeting to move to South London as it is the same day of the proposed celebration event.


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Adjourn

The meeting was adjourned at 4:40 pm.

- Next Meeting Location and Date – Please mark your calendars:

March 7, 2019, 3:00 -4:30 pm location TBD


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Agenda

LMLIP Inclusion & Civic Engagement Sub-council Location: South London Community Centre Social Services Boardroom

Date: March 07, 2019 Time: 3:00-4:30pm

Item Description




4. Adoption of January 10, 2019 minutes


6. Central Council updates: Rose Aquino

7. ICE Sub-council 2018-2019 Updates

I am London

Volunteer Event

Leadership inventory

Acts of Welcome – ideas to bring it up to 1000

8. Strategic Planning 2019-2022 – Final

9. Meeting dates for new fiscal year

April 11, June 13, September 12, November 14, January 9, March 5

Time 3 to 4:30

Location TBD



Adjourn

Next Meeting: To Be Confirmed.

Upcoming meetings: To Be Confirmed


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Minutes


Date and Time: March 7, 2019 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Meeting Location: South London, Social Services Boardroom

Present: Rose Aquino, Jutta Zeller-Beier, Flora Lan, Huda Hussein, Robin Armistead, Christina Lord, Dharshi Lacey, Emily Low, Afeez Ajibowu, Ghadeir Madlol, Mahin Ghasemiyani, Polina Shadman

Regrets: Katy Boychuk, Valy Marochko,

Guest: Raneem Ibrahim (Co-op student)

Item Description



Jutta Zeller-Beier read the newly drafted Land Acknowledgement and Rose Aquino welcomed the group.

2. Agenda

Agenda was moved by Jutta, seconded by Emily Low and approved.


The minutes of January 10 were moved by Christina Lord, seconded by Flora Lan and approved with minor changes.

- Page 3 typo - Page 2 – change the wording to: Ready to volunteer and I Am London joint

event


None was declared.


The Central Council met twice in February. The January 28 meeting was rescheduled to February 1 due to weather. The regular scheduled meeting was on February 25.

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has requested Central Council meeting times change to daytime working hours. There have been some discussions and concerns. A new hybrid timing was suggested where some meetings would be held from 4 to 6 and others 5 to 7 pm. The terms of reference will be affected if the proposed timing changes go forward.

Governance is busy working on the strategic plan. A meeting with key system partners (i.e., community partners who do not deliver settlement services but have a support role) was held on March 1st. It was a good discussion; partners will provide their feedback on the draft plan via email.


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Middlesex Workplace Development Partnership and Western students in the Intercultural Communications e-learning course collaborated on a Middlesex Resident Attraction Project. Narratives, videos and pictures from Newcomers who have settled in Middlesex County or residents who have returned to Middlesex will be featured in an interactive “Story Map” or “FlipBook” titled “A Place We Call Home”. Launch date of the FlipBook is not yet known.

Pathways to Prosperity is busy with a few projects: Literature review which is an analysis of tax file data to look at retention rates; community consultation looking at attitudes and perceptions; six videos being made for a project called “Promising Practices”; Metropolis conference in June in Ottawa, and P2P conference coming up in October (location to be decided).

6. System Partners’ Meeting: Huda Hussein/Polina Shadman

- The System Partners’ meeting was held as a breakfast meeting on March 1. - It was well attended with a good representation of partners - Great engagement and good questions asked - Next time the system partners meeting could be moved up ahead of the strategic

process rather than closer to the end to allow earlier input from system partners

7. ICE Sub Council 2018-2019 Implementation Plan Updates and Planning:

Leadership Inventory: Jutta Zeller-Beier

- Request for contact information for the leadership inventory has been sent out - Once the inventory has been created into a shareable format it will be ready for

sharing and uploading to the portal.

Acts of Welcome: Polina Shadman

- The goal for Acts of Welcome is to reach at least 1,000 acts. The count is currently at 850.

- Members were asked for ideas and suggestions on how to reach the goal - It was suggested that to have it circulated, so that all can share the website

within their networks. - Polina will share the Acts of Welcome website link; and continue posting on

social media where everyone can like/comment/share to increase awareness. - Group was asked to think about any acts of welcome they have experienced

and to submit to be counted and uploaded

8. Strategic Planning 2019-2022: Final review

As the strategic plans were presented at the previous Central Council meeting, there were some good discussions and feedback.

It was suggested that initiatives should be measurable and have actionable outcomes.

There were some modifications to wording for example ‘host community’ will be changed to ‘receiving community’ throughout the Plan.

The draft will be circulated again for further feedback and finalized for the next Central Council meeting.


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Study interviews: Jutta Zeller-Beier

No update – will work on getting updates for next meeting.

9. New fiscal year meeting dates:

Meeting dates were suggested for 2019-2020

Jutta motioned to approve the dates, seconded by Afeez Ajibowu. Motion carried.

Location to be decided


No updates.

11. Chairperson’s Closing Summary

Rose closed the meeting and reminded all to stay for the community engagement celebration. The group met after for a group photo.

Adjourn


Next Meeting Location and Date – Please mark your calendars:

April 11, 2019, 4:00 to 5:30pm location TBD


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Agenda

LMLIP Inclusion & Civic Engagement Sub-council Location: Carling Heights

Date: April 11, 2019 Time: 4:00 - 5:30pm

Item Description




4. Adoption of March 7, 2019 minutes


6. Measuring Outcome – Survey of Functions - Corinne


8. Debrief and next steps for a) I am London campaign b) March 7 Celebrate Community

Engagement event/volunteer work group

9. Strategic Plan 2019-2020 - Draft Annual implementation plan



12. Adjourn

Next Meeting: June 13 , 4:00pm – 5:30.

Upcoming meetings: September 12; November 14


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Minutes


Date and Time: April 11, 2019 4:00:5:30 pm

Meeting Location: Carling Heights Present: Rose Aquino, Jutta Zeller-Beier, Robin Armistead, Dharshi Lacey, Afeez Ajibowu, Eman Arnout, Hina Kalyal, Polina Shadman

Regrets: Flora Lan, Huda Hussein, Valy Marochko, Christina Lord, Emily Low, Ghadeir Madlol, Mahin Ghasemiyani

Guest: Raneem Ibrahim (Co-op student)

Item Description



Jutta Zeller-Beier read the Land Acknowledgement and Rose Aquino welcomed the group.

2. Agenda

Agenda was moved by Jutta, seconded by Eman Arnout and approved with a minor addition of “Leadership Inventory” to the agenda


Adoption of January 10, 2019 minutes was moved by Jutta, seconded by Dharshi Lacey and approved with changes.


None was declared.

5. Measuring Outcomes – Survey of Functions: Corinne Walsh

Members were asked to complete a survey drafted by LMLIP Measuring Outcomes work group to evaluate the functionality of each LMLIP Sub- council. Members present completed the surveys on paper and online. Missing members were sent a link to complete by the given deadline.


- Council heard an update on the System’s Partners meeting which was held on March 1. The group provided some input to the Strategic Plan 2019 -2022. It was suggested that this group be consulted with early on in the process of gathering input for the next Strategic Plan.

- As per Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the Central Council will adopt a proposed recommendation to have a hybrid timing where the meeting times will be alternated between 4-6 and 5-7 pm. The new times will go into effect after the September meeting.


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- The renewal dates for chairs, vice chairs and co-chair will be deferred until the end of the next fiscal year (March 2020) after that all terms, regardless of the year of expiry, will renew during the month of April.

- Museum London partnered with LMLIP and others this year to host the All Are Welcome Here event. All in all a great event with keynote addresses and panelists addressing combating racism.

7. I am London Campaign:

- A meeting will be called in May to start 2019 campaign - The members briefly debriefed on the Community Engagement event

which was held on March 7th. There were some discussion on the security present that seeing the security staff in full uniform was a bit unnerving.

- To continue a full debrief a joint meeting with the two work groups (I Am London and Ready to Volunteer) will be called to discuss further.

8. Leadership inventory:

- It was reported that the leadership inventory does not have contacts listed for all. Jutta will work it for a new update for September 2019.

- The inventory should be ready to be posted by end of this year.

9. Strategic Planning 2019-2022: Work plan

- Election Information session 2019: Dharshi will contact Women in Politics as the first step, following which next steps will be determined.

- Partnership with the Culture office: Robin will be the point person and will keep the group posted as to what needs to be done

- I am London work group will be called in May. New members joining are Eman and Jutta. The May meeting will include the original group and new members.

- Leadership was suggested as the theme for the I am London 2019 campaign - The Civic Engagement Handbook will be revived. The group would like to

reprint and redistribute the handbook. Robin offered to print the handbook, which will be distributed at Central Council. It will also be included in weekly roundups

- There will be more conversation on the emphasis of the handbooks and or links at public events such as the neighbourhood event on. May 28 in Landon Public Library, Old South where Afeez is presenting.

- The group will piggy back on some initiatives that seem to have the same theme. For example,” Leadership” can be the theme for 2019 I am London campaign.

10. Study interviews: Jutta Zeller-Beier

No update – will work on getting updates for next meeting



Adjourn



June 13, 4:00 to 5:30pm at Carling Heights.

Polina will call work group meetings and invite new members.

Jutta will finalize the inventory for posting by end of the year.

Dharshi will connect with Women in Politics

A soft copy of the handbook will be shared with the group


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Agenda

LMLIP Inclusion & Civic Engagement Sub-council Location: Carling Heights, Meeting Room A

Date: June 13, 2019 Time: 4:00-5:30pm

Item Description




4. Adoption of April 11 , 2019 minutes



7. ICE Sub-council – Implementation Plan 2019-2020

a. Federal Election

b. Work Groups

- I am London

- Leadership

- Ready to volunteer

- Seniors

- Faith

8. Newcomer Afternoon at the Library - Robin



11. Adjourn

Next Meeting: September 12th

Upcoming meetings: November 14th, January 9th, March 5th


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Minutes


Date and Time: June 13, 2019 4:00:5:30 pm

Meeting Location: Carling Heights, 656 Elizabeth St

Present: Afeez Ajibowu, Robin Armistead, Rose Aquino, Hina Kalyal, Jutta Zeller-Beier, Dharshi Lacey, Huda Hussein, Christina Lord, Emily Low, Kara McKeown, Delmar Tobin

Regrets: Eman Arnout, Flora Lan, Valy Marochko, Ghadeir Madlol, Mahin Ghasemiyani

Item Description



Jutta Zeller-Beier read the Land Acknowledgement and Rose Aquino welcomed the group and guests/new members. Roundtable introductions were made.

2. Agenda

Agenda was moved by Emily Low, seconded by Dharshi Lacey and approved with additions of the work groups.


The April 11, 2019 Minutes were moved by Jutta Zeller-Beier, seconded by Robin Armistead and approved with the correction of a typo


None was declared.


The significant amount of work undertaken by the London & Middlesex Local Immigration Partnership (LMLIP) was reported to Central Council. The highlights of the Annual Report for 2018-2019 were shared:

- Over 4,800 volunteer hours were contributed which translates to $282,422 if monetized

- In addition to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada‘s generous support, LMLIP received $29,000 funding support from partner organizations mainly used for the ‘All Are Welcome Here’ event.

- The City of London as part of its Newcomer Strategy is planning a Newcomer Day on October 10 and the LMLIP was asked to collaborate in celebrating its 10th anniversary.

- LMLIP will join in the Newcomer Day celebrations as a supporting partner, however the 10th anniversary celebrations will be a standalone celebration. A work group is being formed and more details will be shared soon.


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- Middlesex County is actively working to attract newcomers to the county through an interactive flipbook called The Place We Call Home and a new newcomers page on the county’s website with links to settlement services

- The Francophone Local immigration committees (FLIC) are finalizing their local action plans. London FLIC is currently planning celebration activities for National Francophone Immigration Week, which will have a movie screening at the Library sometime during November 3-9. More details will be shared soon.

- The Welcoming Communities work group is looking for new ideas on how to get Acts of Welcome up to hit the goal of 1000 and is asking everyone to submit an act and to share/spread the #1000actsofwelcome. ICE Sub-council suggested that perhaps the 1000actsofwelcome be revisited regarding the manner in which acts are requested. Why is it so challenging to get to 1000 acts? Some people may find it feels like boasting to talk about their deeds of welcome. Are there other ways to record or elicit acts? Maybe have a checklist? It will be brought to Central Council for consideration

6. Strategic Implementation plan 2019-2020

Federal Election: Dharshi Lacey

- There will be an All Candidates debate on October 7 which new immigrants who are eligible to vote can vote can attend

- School auditoriums have been booked - The plan is to formulate a set of questions attendees can ask candidates eg:

on immigration policies - Since this is an All Candidates meetings, Central Council’s approval is

required

I am London: Rose Aquino

- A debrief joint meeting (Ready to Volunteer and I am London) was held on May 23.. It was decided that each of the events for next year will be a standalone celebration to give each their own focus.

- The 2019-2020 campaign will be initiating their work with their first meeting to be held on June 21.

- Call for nominations will be going out soon; everyone is asked to think of an individual they know to nominate.

The following work groups have recently been formed with new members and will be meeting to begin work over the summer to have updates for the next time we meet in September

- Ready to volunteer: Dharshi Lacey (ICE); Amani Radhaa; Emal Ketan; Lana Winchester-Tucker;

- Leadership group: Jutta, Rose, Emily and Hina a Leadership/mentorship inventory update:contact information is required for the 45 programs on the list and the information is to be updated in time for posting on the portal

- Seniors – Kara McKeown (ICE); Ramona Lucan; Flora Lan; Rifat Hussain; Jean-Marc Boisvenue

- Faith – Christina (ICE); Holly Weaver; Jerome Rutagarama; Ahmed Yahya Ali; Flora Lan;

7. Newcomer Afternoon at the Library: Robin Armistead

The Idea will be taken to Central Council for their input/approval

Staff will coordinate first meeting for Leadership group


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The Heritage Office will be hosting a human library at the Central Library on October 10 as part of Newomer Day activities. Robin suggested that the Heritage Council would like to partner with this Sub-council to host the Human Library.

Group agreed that this will be part of LMLIP’s participation in the planning of Newcomer Day.

A working group with Robin as the lead was struck. Afeez, Kara and Huda will join the group.


- Afeez, Dharshi and Rose attended a Community Conversation event (re: Recruiting diverse volunteers) at Landon Library on May 28 which had more than 15 attendees. Afeez and Dharshi were panelists and talked about diversity and inclusion and the audience shared ideas

- Approach to a Sacred Place: The Art of Otto Donald Rogers: There is a screening of a film featuring his work on June 17 at Wolf Performance Hall, Central Library



Adjourn



September 12, 4:00 to 5:30pm at Carling Heights, 656 Elizabeth St.

Robin will coordinate the first meeting

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