The TeaMWork Project is an initiative by Workforce WindsorEssex aimed at supporting temporary foreign workers (TFWs) during their stay in Canada. The project focuses on ensuring that TFWs have access to critical information and resources to help them navigate their work, community services, and life in Canada.
Key elements of the project include:
- Educational Resources: The TeaMWork Project distributes materials to inform TFWs about their rights, responsibilities, and safety while working in Canada.
- Summer Kits: These kits contain practical items like backpacks and high-visibility vests, along with educational resources that detail workers’ rights.
- Health and Safety Promotion: The project partners with other organizations to promote events related to occupational health, mental health, and community services for TFWs.
- Collaborations: TeaMWork collaborates with various organizations, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of London’s Migrant Workers Ministry, Unity Hopeful Charity, and many more to organize and promote events aimed at improving the well-being of TFWs.
The TeaMWork Project is dedicated to improving the experience of TFWs by providing vital resources and fostering connections with local communities and services.
TeaMWork is funded through the Migrant Worker Support Program by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC), to assist Temporary Foreign Workers in achieving fair treatment, security, and integration in their Canadian communities.
If you are a migrant worker and require assistance, please contact us at:
Phone: 226-774-5829 or Email: TeaMWork@workforcewindsoressex.com.
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TeaMWork Partner Service Matrix and Map
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The Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres are non-profit, community governed, multi-service health centres that provide primary health care, health promotion and community development services all under one roof.
We are designed with the community in mind and for that reason we serve persons of all ages who are economically and/or socially disadvantaged with a focus on:
- Mental health and addictions
- Persons that face barriers such as race, language, culture and sexual orientation
- Persons who are homeless/under-housed or at risk for homelessness
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, Chatham-Kent Community Health Centres will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), and primary healthcare for Migrant Workers in Chatham-Kent.
Collège Boréal is a public college of applied arts and technology established in Sudbury in 1995.
The Collège has a dual mandate: to be both a post-secondary college institution and a vital community development organization. Boréal operates 37 sites including 7 campuses in 27 Ontario communities. As an innovative educational, cultural and community hub that serves Ontario’s francophone population, Collège Boréal’s goal is to produce a highly skilled bilingual workforce that is engaged in French-speaking communities and contributes to the economic, social and cultural vitality of the province and the country. To this end, it offers more than 80 post-secondary education and apprenticeship programs, including nearly 30 unique French-language programs in Ontario, as well as a range of other services, including continuing education, corporate training, employment services, academic upgrading, literacy and basic skills training, language training services and settlement services for newcomers.
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, Collège Boréal will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), health & safety guidance, language classes, and orientation services for Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Windsor-Essex.
The mission of Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) is to enhance access to social justice to marginalized low-income people in Windsor-Essex by providing integrated face-to-face legal and social work services and through individual and systematic advocacy.
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), emergency support, social & recreational events, legal support, and mental health support for Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Windsor-Essex.
Migrant Worker Community Program (MWCP) is a non-profit organization that helps migrant workers assimilating into the community during their stay in Canada. We help them navigate the Canadian system by providing various services such as mental health support, connecting them to the health services, legal services, translation and interpretation services, organizing recreational events among others to make sure that they feel welcomed and safe into the community.
Our program is effective and critical in creating opportunities for integration of this large community into the resident population. MWCP fosters inclusion and welcoming of migrant workers through social, cultural, and recreational events. We function as a bridge between the migrant worker population and the community, based on the understanding that there is a cultural and language barrier that presents challenges in day-to-day interactions.
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, Migrant Worker Community Program (MWCP) will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), emergency support, health & safety guidance, interpretation & translation, language classes, social & recreational events, mental health support, and orientation services for Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Windsor-Essex.
OUR MISSION
Working with our communities, we provide primary health care, health promotion and community development, with a focus on people who face challenges to accessing care.
OUR VISION
Healthy People, Strong Communities
Our multi-disciplinary team of physicians, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, social workers and dietitians provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment and referral to other health care professionals when required. Our primary health care team also advises our clients on how to improve and maintain their health as part of holistic primary care.
We are proud of supporting the migrant community in the Lambton county. The purpose of the program is to provide migrant workers with accurate information and access to available services and supports in the community! Individual supports for workers are available.
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, North Lambton Community Health Centre will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), emergency support, health & safety guidance, healthcare, interpretation & translation, social & recreational events, legal support, mental health support, and transportation to Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc. (OHCOW) is: to protect workers and their communities from occupational disease, injuries and illnesses; to support their capacity to address occupational hazards; and to promote the social, mental and physical well-being of workers and their families.
We strive to accomplish this through the identification of workplace factors which are detrimental to the health and well-being of workers; by empowering workplace parties to make positive occupational health changes in their workplace and by providing information, knowledge and organizational skills to the workplace parties to eliminate work practices that cause injury, illness and disability.
How does OHCOW help Temporary Foreign Workers and their Employers?
- Providing resources and education on labour laws and worker safety
- Distributing materials such as informative posters, guides and other print materials
- Providing translation services
- Consultation and research into improving the lives of migrant workers at their jobs
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers Inc. (OHCOW) will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), and health & safety guidance to Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Windsor-Essex.
South Essex Community Council (SECC) is a registered, charitable organization that serves each and every individual who walks through our doors. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors, who are among the 400 volunteers who assist us in delivering services throughout the year.
SECC delivers services in three primary areas:
1. Employment & Training
2. Language & Settlement
3. Community Services
We also offer information and referral services, community supports such as free income tax clinics and Coats for Kids, and volunteer coordination services.
Under the Migrant Worker Support Program and the TeaMWork Project, South Essex Community Council (SECC) will be providing support services (employment insurance, CPP, EI, employment rights, information sessions and workshops, OHIP), emergency support, interpretation & translation, language classes, transportation, and orientation services for Migrant Workers in Sarnia-Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Windsor-Essex.
About the MWSP
In recognition of their need to support some of the nation’s most vulnerable and isolated workers, the Government of Canada announced the Migrant Worker Support Program (MWSP) as part of Budget 2021. Informed by the lessons learned from the Migrant Worker Support Network Pilot, the MWSP aims to support community-based organizations in the provision of migrant worker-centric programs and services.
Funded by Employment and Social Development Canada, TeaMWork is a project under the Migrant Worker Support Program. The purpose of the project is to provide migrant workers with accurate information and access to available services and supports, and to assist them in learning about and exercising their rights while in Canada.
The funding will serve the best interests of Migrant Workers in Essex County, Chatham-Kent, and Lambton County.
More specifically, the MWSP and TeaMWork objectives aim to:
- Increase migrant workers’ awareness and understanding of their rights and responsibilities through educational activities and/or educational material;
- Empower migrant workers to exercise their rights by providing or assisting in accessing services available to them;
- Foster inclusion and welcoming of migrant workers through social, cultural, and/or recreational events;
- Support migrant workers during emergency situations;
- Foster new partnerships or leverage existing partnerships/networks to support migrant workers;
- Develop and implement coordinated approaches among community organizations, and/or build their capacity and knowledge to provide resources and services to migrant workers.
TeaMWork Launch Press Conference – Essex Civic Centre (December 19th, 2022)
Media Coverage of the Project
- Employment and Social Development Canada – News release: Government of Canada protects and empowers temporary foreign workers in Southwestern Ontario through the Migrant Worker Support Program
- AM 800 CKLW – Feds announce $3.6-Million to help Migrant Workers know their rights
- Windsor Star – Workforce WindsorEssex to receive $3.6M for migrant worker support program
- CTV Windsor – Migrant worker program in Windsor-Essex getting $3.6 million in federal funding
- Blackburn News – Government creates grant supporting migrant workers
- Sarnia Observer – New project serving foreign migrant workers in Lambton County
- Farms.com – Migrant workers fair in Essex County a success
- iHeartRADIO.ca – Migrant Worker Community Program to offer a health and information fair
- Blackburn News – Project to support migrant workers to launch in Sarnia-Lambton
- CTV London – New project in Sarnia-Lambton helps migrant workers navigate health and recreation
TeaMWork Style Guide
Click here to download the TeaMWork branding and style guide. The document outlines the purpose and methodology behind the design of the TeaMWork branding, as well as guidance for the appropriate use of the logo. There are details on the official typeface, as well as the colour pallette of the logo.
