WHO WE ARE

Saskatoon is home to people from all over the world. Making sure they’re welcomed, supported, and included takes more than any one organization can do on its own.

Immigration Partnership Saskatoon (IPSK) is a partnership of more than 70 organizations from every sector in the city. Government, education, health, settlement, employment, faith, cultural, and Indigenous and Métis organizations all have a seat at our table.

Together, we do the behind-the-scenes work that makes the settlement and integration system function. We don’t deliver services directly. We make sure the organizations that do are talking to each other, learning from each other, and pulling in the same direction.

WHAT WE DO

We research newcomer needs, connect organizations across sectors, and push for the changes our community needs. We do this through our Partnership Council, Immigrant Advisory Table, and four working groups.

HOW WE’RE ORGANIZED

IPSK is led by a Partnership Council and guided by newcomers through our Immigrant Advisory Table. Four working groups drive the day-to-day work forward. Each plays a different role. All work toward the same goal: a Saskatoon where newcomers belong

PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL

The Partnership Council is IPSK’s leadership body. It brings together senior decision-makers from government, education, health, housing, employment, justice, faith communities, ethnocultural organizations, and Indigenous and Métis partners. The Council sets strategic direction, removes barriers to collaboration, and holds our partnership accountable to real outcomes, not just good intentions.

IMMIGRANT ADVISORY TABLE

The Immigrant Advisory Table (IAT) is made up of newcomers, immigrants, and refugees who bring firsthand experience to every decision IPSK makes. They are not consulted as an afterthought. Their voices shape our strategy from the ground up.

IAT members advise the Partnership Council, inform our working groups, and serve as ambassadors in their communities, keeping the work grounded in real life, not just policy.

WORKING GROUPS

Working groups are where strategy becomes action. Each one brings together professionals and community members focused on a specific area of newcomer inclusion.

Employment and Labour Outcomes

Bringing public and private sector partners together to open doors for newcomers seeking meaningful work, entrepreneurship support, and career recognition.

Social Inclusion and Civic Engagement

Building connection between newcomers and longtime residents through community events, public awareness, and strategies that make Saskatoon a more welcoming place to live.

Leadership

Strengthening how partner organizations collaborate, identifying where services fall short, and developing responses that meet newcomers where they actually are.

Language

Connecting English and French language providers across the city and creating more opportunities for newcomers to build the language skills they need to participate fully in community life.

Social Inclusion and Civic engagement Working Group: The group offers opportunities for newcomers, mainstream residents, indigenous and Metis peoples, ethnocultural and Faith groups, to celebrate, share diversity, challenges and connect cross-culturally. The work for this group public education campaigns, multicultural celebrations, acknowledgement and celebration of newcomer volunteerism, empowerment of newcomers to participate in civic/political decision-making processes, increasing awareness of benefits of newcomers to Saskatoon and implementing actions to foster welcoming attitudes and strategies to build social connections between immigrants and longtime residents.

Leadership Working Group: This working group will ensure programs and partnerships/networks are in place to support newcomers in a more collaborative way. Its current focus is on fostering ways to collaborate with partners who are aligned, committed, and actively leverage existing networks to identify gaps in service, develop, promote, and/or deliver new and enhanced programs that are responsive to wider spectrum of newcomer needs.

Language Working Group: This working group promotes the development of language proficiency for newcomers in English and French. The current focus is creating opportunities for language acquisition, relevance, and immersion for newcomers and to increase the awareness of newcomer language and communication needs. The group consists of members from school board, francophone sector, and the not for profit sector.

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What We Do

We research newcomer needs, connect organizations across sectors, and push for the changes our community needs. We do this through our Partnership Council, Immigrant Advisory Table, and four working groups.