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Devinder Chattha

604-596-7722 ext/ 107

Current Position:   Director, Language, Settlement & Social Programs

Institutional Affiliation:   Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society (PICS)

Location:   British Columbia

Sector:   Service Provider
Expertise:  
  • Settlement and Service Provision
  • Economic Integration
  • Social and Cultural Integration
  • Political and Civic Integration
  • Health and Well-being
  • At-Risk Immigrants
  • Temporary Foreign Workers and International Students

Languages:   English, Punjabi, Hindi

Description:  

Devinder Chattha, B.A.(Honors in Political Science); M.A.(English Lit); M.Ed (Leadership & Curriculum Design); TESOL is Director of Language, Settlement & Social Programs at Progressive Intercultural Community Services society (PICS)for Vancouver, Surrey & Delta). Devinder is an Advisory Committee member of Academics & Language Programs at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Devinder is also a member of IICC Steering Committee of AMSSA, She had been on AMSSA Board and on ELSA Board previously for many years. She had been teaching at Douglas College training Centre, Surrey; Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops and had been a teacher at School District Merritt. Devinder has been working in the immigrant and refugee services sector since 1990 and had also been involved in English Language Test preparation sector for several years.