Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women

The Career Pathways for Racialized Newcomer Women (CPRNW) pilot project was a multi-year initiative testing targeted employment services for racialized newcomer women to support their successful integration in the Canadian labour market. Service delivery took place from 2019 to 2023, while the research component continued until March 2025. CPRNW represents an innovative and holistic approach to service delivery, one which recognizes the multiple intersecting identities of racialized newcomer women.

The 12 different CPRNW interventions, based on four service delivery models, were targeted to newcomer women at different initial distances from the labour market and with differing barriers to employment. The models ranged from offering a first Canadian work experience to those initially quite distant from the labour market to matching participants initially close to the labour market with commensurate employment, taking into account their skills, wants, and goals.