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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

What is PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a natural emotional reaction to terrible experiences that involve actual or threatened serious harm to oneself or others. 1 When in danger, it is natural to feel afraid. This fear triggers many split-second changes in the body to prepare to defend against the danger or to avoid it.

Topic:: Ensuring a successful sponsorship year

Format:: PDF

Type:: Fact Sheets

Sexual Harassment

What you need to know as Private Refugee Sponsors In the context of private refugee sponsorship, sexual harassment can happen to a sponsored individual as well as to a member of a sponsoring group. It can occur among members of the refugee family or sponsoring group. Because it has been experienced in some sponsorship cases,

Topic:: Ensuring a successful sponsorship year

Type:: Fact Sheets

The Rights of Privately Sponsored Refugees

Download the PDF Versions of this Fact Sheet in (English) (French) (Amharic) (Arabic) (Armenian) (Farsi) (Kurmanji) (Pashto) (Sorani) (Tigrinya) Welcome to Canada!