PIRS launched the Mobile Child Care Project and Learning Journeys

In 2019, PIRS launched 2 new exciting initiatives: the Mobile Child Care Project (later, Pop Up Child Care) and Learning Journeys.

Pop Up Child Care aims to solve two problems: the need in service agencies and community organizations for occasional childcare services, and the high rate of unemployment in the immigrant women population.

The Learning Journeys project looked at the experience of immigrant and refugee women as they settle into their new home. It sought to increase knowledge about immigrant women’s unique needs, strengths, challenges, and goals within the context of settlement programming. Moreover, it engaged stakeholders in developing service delivery models and/or interventions that could better support immigrant women in their goals related to economic, social and/or community participation. Success of Learning Journeys has led to the creation of Immigrant Women’s Advisory Committee (IWAC), a special program dedicated to raising awareness of social issues affecting immigrant and refugee women and advocating for inclusion of immigrant women’s perspectives and voices into systems and policies that impact their lives.