Content and Development Acknowledgements

This Transcultural Communication Facilitation Guide was a collaboration between the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and their community partners.

 We would like to thank all the contributors who worked hard to create workshop content and ensure these resources reflect the core principles in effective Transcultural Communications.

This work is dedicated to the memory of our friend and colleague Dr. Cesar Suva (1942-2022) of The Immigrant Education Society, Calgary. We would also like to acknowledge The Social Science and Humanities Research Council’s support through The Community Colleges Social Innovation Fund; Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Joseph Macdonald, Dr. Ross Humby, Dr. Lynn Vos, Dr. Dania El Chaar, Jessica Norman, James Sprenger); Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (Dr. Sinela Jurkova), and Immigrant Services Calgary (Wissam Shalaby) for their leadership, dedication, and passion for this project over the past four years.

We would like to thank the following organizations for the sharing of their resources for this project;

• The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (Project Lead), Calgary
• The Immigrant Education Society, Calgary
• Immigrant Services Calgary, Calgary
• Calgary Catholic Immigration Society, Calgary
• Norquest College, Edmonton