A place for people new to Canada and the city where they can find several types of support has reopened in the neighbourhood it had left just a year ago.
The Edmonton Newcomer Centre formally unveiled the new Welcome Centre for Immigrants on Thursday at a location just north of Mill Woods Town Centre. The Welcome Centre had been a fixture in the southeast Edmonton neighbourhood for close to 20 years in its longtime home at Millbourne Mall before it closed its doors last March due to operational restructuring. The new Welcome Centre is located at Suite 304, 6203 28 Ave. NW in the Mill Woods Town Centre Professional Building.
The Edmonton Newcomer Centre, which rebranded from its original Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers moniker two years ago, has been serving its community since the early 1980s with language training, settlement services, help finding work and mental-health support to immigrants and newcomers.