Better serving immigrant children and families: a Winnipeg Child and Family Services Study
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Abstract
Better Serving Immigrant Children and Families: A Winnipeg Child and Family Services Study" was initiated by the Winnipeg Child and Family Services Community- Based Early Intervention Program to enable them to better serve immigrant children and families.This study examined the parenting concerns of immigrant parents from 5 cultural groups (Central American, Filipino, Portuguese, Sudanese and Vietnamese) living in Winnipeg's'West Central Area and ways CFS could help address these concerns.Using a qualitative and community-based approach, 25 interviews and 5 focus groups were conducted with first genBration immigrant parents, 5 interviews and I focus goup in each of the communities.The major themes that emerged were about: a. the knowledge immigrant parents have about CFS, b. immigrant parenting concerns, and c. ways CFS can better serve immigrant groups.This research practicum describes the tasks I undertook as a co-investigator of the study, to learn more about applied research with immigrant families.This study enabled me to achieve my learning goal of gaining research skills with immigrant groups.The lessons learned ranged from practice to research to social work education.Some of these were the importance of building trust and rapport and being culturally and linguistically sensitive, the benefits of involving the community and how time consuming and expensive qualitative research can be.This practicum experience was worthwhile.It helped me and can assist others in future activities with immigrant groups. CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTIONCanada is often referred to as the "land of immigrants" due to the many immigrants living in the country.The city of Winnipeg reflects this statement.In V/innipeg, immigrants make up 17.Yoof the total population (Statistics Canada, 1998).As the immigrant population increases, so do the numbers of children.More than thirtyeight percent of the immigrant population are children (Statistics Canada, 1998).Immigrants play an important role in Canadian society.They stimulate growth, prosperity and cultural diversity.Children also play an important role since the future largely depends on them.It is imperative, therefore, that their well being is maintained.As more and more immigrants come to Canada, social service organizations are
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".