Nova Scotia Parent Cross-Cultural Organization NSPCC

The Story of Inspiration

Founded in March 2021, in Nova Scotia, Canada, NSPCC is a non-profit organization focused on practical, cost-efficient programs to support the mental health and wellbeing of cross-cultured families. Since the fundamental level of foundation, NSPCC has been an active affiliated member of Catalyst 2030 in both the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Chapter and Canada Chapt

er. Our services are built upon the engagement of community members and institutions thru capacity building programs, which are carried out either face-to-face or virtually, in collaboration with multi-stakeholders within Canada and worldwide. Our organization’s founder and creator of the PARENT initiative is drawn upon a qualitative investigation exploring ‘struggling pro-longed estrangement’ encountered by Arab refugee families, highlighting Arab collectivistic cross-cultural childrearing and parenting behaviours. The constructivist process of building a theoretical framework to explain how Arab refugees reflect their migration and integration experiences led to this merited endeavour in targeting actual growth and resiliency in cross-cultural families. Feeling inspired, Samar's volunteered PARENT initiative has proved to be a valuable contribution to immigration and integration Active-living programs in Canada since March 2021, showing its success though collaborative local community-based organizations, incl. YMCA Centre for Immigrant Programs of Greater Halifax/ Dartmouth, Immigrant Migrant Women's Association of Halifax (IMWAH), Canadian Arab Woman Association (CAWA). PARENT is a community-based intervention, breaking the traditional clinical therapeutic mold to achieve mental health & wellbeing for all.