It is recommended that organizations, including the school boards hire more dual language service providers/social workers in order to better facilitate communication with newcomer/refugee youth and their families. Newcomer/International youth would greatly benefit from the addition of qualified dual language service providers, who are effectively able pick up the content and subtle nuances that are communicated to them, while speaking in
the students’ first language. The hiring of dual language service providers would also reduce the current dependency on third party/middle person employees such as interpreters and cultural brokers.
