Self Help Resource Centre

DSEF was a SHRC project that offered:

a respectful and supportive way to begin introducing newcomer volunteers into agencies that currently employ a majority of staff and volunteers from the dominant culture.
the potential to humanize human resource policy change by providing means for involving people from diverse backgrounds.
opportunities for organizations to grow through the development and thoughtful implementation of diversity policies.
an important piece of settlement in Ontario. -a way to welcome and incorporate newcomers while building individual, organizational, and community level capacities.