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Bridging Program for Internationally Trained Environmental Professionals

Bridging Program for Internationally Trained Environmental Professionals – now accepting applications.

For more information, click here

City of Toronto Services for New Immigrants

Newcomers / immigrants
You may be eligible for Ontario Works benefits from Employment and Social Services if your immigration status is:

  • Permanent resident or landed immigrant
  • Refugee claimant
  • Convention refugee, or
  • Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds applicant.

Visitors to Canada are not eligible for Ontario Works benefits, however in exceptional cases a Temporary Resident Permit holder may qualify.

http://www.toronto.ca/socialservices/whatare.htm

Information Session on Access to Nursing Profession

Saturday, February 4, 2012, 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
1313 Queen St W, Toronto, Ontario.

If you are a new immigrant (have been here for five years or less) and a foreign educated or with work experience in nursing, come and network with nursing professionals and people with nursing background and build your support network.

Kababayan Community Centre Multicultural Services is hosting an information session for  those who want to know and understand how can be access the nursing profession in Canada.

Call 416.532.3888 to register and reserve your seat.

Kababayan 2012 Singing Idol Competition

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Kababayan Community Centre Multicultural Services launches its first Singing Idol Competition!

Win a cash prize and the bragging rights to be the first Kababayan Singing idol Champion.

Kabababayan Community Centre Multicultural Services has been serving the Filipino for nearly 35 years now. It is the only Filipino organization funded by the three levels of the Canadian government (municipal, provincial and federal) to provide settlement and immigration services to the Parkdale community and the Filipino community in general. But times are changing. To sustain its current programs and free services to the newcomers, youth, women, families and seniors, Kababayan needs to raise funds.

The Kababayan Singing Idol competition is one of Kababayan’s fundraising activities.  For details on guidelinesregister, and participate in the Singing Idol competition, please visit our website, www2.kababayan.org. There is fun to raise funds.

Kababayan is looking for sponsors for this event and future fundraising events. Contact Kababayan if you are interested in sponsoring events and activities.

Below is a list of KCCMS activities in the first quarter of 2012:

January 7, 2012 – Culminating activity, November-December Computer Class
January 14, 2012  – Access to Engineering Profession
January 18, 2012 (Every Wednesday)  – English Conversation Circle
January 21, 2012 – Food handling workshop
January 28, 2012 – Tax Information Session
January 28, 2012 – Culminating activity for Saturday English Conversation Circle
January 28, 2012 – Seniors’ Life Journey and pre-valentine event,
February 4, 2012, – Access to Nursing Profession
February 11, 2012 – Preliminaries Singing Idol Competition
February 18, 2012 – First Aid and CPR training
February 25, 2012 – Finals of the Singing Idol Competition (tickets available $20)
March 10, 2012 – (tentative) Access to Physiotherapist Profession
March 17, 2012 – Tax Clinic in collaboration with Association of Filipino Accountants
March 31, 2012 – Kababayan Spring Dinner and Dance (ticket available $25)

Please call 416.532.3888 for details on any of the above activities. You can also visit our website. www2.kababayan.org

Seminar on Engineering Licensure and Certification

OAFCE and KCCMS will hold a Seminar on Engineering Licensure and Certification on January 14, 2012, Saturday at the KCC (1313 Queen St West, Toronto) from 12 nn to 4 pm.  Light lunch will be served.  Representatives from Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) and the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) will provide the presentation.

Please call Amy at 416-532-3888 or Jelbert at 905-782-8018 if interested.

Welcome to our online home

Kababayan Community Centre Multicultural Services (KCCMS), commonly known as Kababayan Community Centre, offers  settlement services to all newcomers in the Parkdale, Bathurst/Finch communities, and, to all Filipinos living in the greater Toronto Area.

Kababayan was founded by progressive Filipino-Canadians in 1977 in response to an identified need of the Filipino immigrants in Toronto. It has since evolved to served more than the Filipino immigrants to include all newcomers in the Parkdale community and Bathurst/Finch area.

To learn more about Kababayan, go to About page.

If you are a newcomer, click on the Program and Services pages.

If you want to get information about events and activities, go to Activities page.

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