Build your future here with ISANS

Last year, ISANS worked with over 10,000 clients to build a future in Nova Scotia. At ISANS, we help you find your pathway to possibility.

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Our Impact

For nearly 40 years, ISANS has and continues to be an innovator in delivering high quality, timely services to newcomers as our organization works towards our vision, a community where all can belong and grow.

ISANS underpins its innovative pathway to settlement services through an empowerment approach, diversity and inclusion lens, sector-leading programs and services, staff expertise, and focus on partnerships.

Our Impact in Numbers

Immigrants recieved ISANS services
Refugee newcomers recieved settlement services
Clients found employment, 73% of whom became employed in their field or a related one
Pre-arrival immigrants from 93 countries were supported through Settlement Online Pre-Arrival (SOPA)
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Language learners in over 100 active language classes
Newcomers participated in business training
Immigrants attended 254 sessions offered by our Orientation program
GARs and 51 PSRs supported in their first year
Interpretations facilitated

Our Videos

Every journey is unique. ISANS has created stories that explore the many ways that newcomers arrive in Canada and build a future here in Nova Scotia.

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Impact Stories

ISANS provides settlement and integration programs and services to immigrants who are in or destined for communities across Nova Scotia. Through our programs and services, we help immigrants build a future in Nova Scotia.

As the front door to many of Nova Scotia’s immigrants, we seek to create a community where all can belong and grow, building a stronger Nova Scotia and Canada for all.

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