2nd Annual Pathways to Prosperity National Conference 2014

Registration Now Open for the 2014 Pathways to Prosperity National Conference

The Pathways to Prosperity Partnership will hold its second annual conference at the Delta Hotel in downtown Montreal starting at 8:30 a.m. on November 24th and finishing at 5:00 p.m. on November 25th, with Board and Standing Committee meetings on November 26th.

The conference immediately precedes the Fall Consultation Conference of the Canadian Council for Refugees in Gatineau, Quebec for those who may be interested in attending both meetings.

Attendees will include P2P researchers, settlement agency representatives, LIP and RIF coordinators, graduate students, and policy and program officials from the three orders of government.

P2P is pleased to announce that we are not charging registration fees for conference attendance.

The 2014 P2P conference will include 6 plenary sessions, 11 workshops and roundtable discussions and a poster session. 

The plenaries will focus on:

• Regionalization and immigration to communities outside of metropolises;
• Overview of the P2P co-investigator led projects to be launched this fall;
• Pre-arrival services and information;
• Evaluation strategies for place-based networks – including Local Immigration Partnerships, Réseaux en immigration francophone, and other place-based networks;
• Official language minority immigrants; and
• Changing entry pathways – including students, temporary workers, and transition classes.

The workshops and roundtables will focus on:

• Funding opportunities and Mitacs internships;
• Research priorities for Northern, smaller, and remote communities;
• Research priorities for Francophone immigration;
• Availability and use of large-scale datasets;
• Agency of the Future; and
• Discussions of research priorities in each region of the country.

A session to discuss the CIC jurisdictional summits held this fall will be conducted on the evening of November 24th. In addition, on the evening of November 24th, a poster session accompanying a cocktail reception will be held to showcase the work of P2P members.

Registration, Hotel, and Poster Submission Information

Please click here to register for the conference, to obtain information for booking your accommodation, and for poster submission information.