Several participants felt that efforts to promote tolerance and understanding should be focussed on schools and aimed at both teachers and students. Many new immigrants felt that they had been placed in the appropriate classes when they entered the Canadian education system. They agreed that ESL classes helped them to learn the language and integrate into the overall society more quickly. The use of social services provided by the various agents in Canadian society varied significantly with each participant. Most indicated that they had accessed some type of service during their time in Canada, but only a handful relied on them heavily.
Social isolation is an early and major hurdle faced by most immigrant youths.
Many of these services indicated that they had identified barriers to service access among immigrants. The three most common were language, cultural differences, and lack of knowledge of services. Many of these organizations have made efforts to bridge this gap between the immigrant communities and mainstream society so that better services can be provided to all those who need to. However the lack of resources has hindered this process and thus many service providers are falling behind the needs of the immigrant groups. This group is capable of adaptation faster than their parents, which has been a central factor to intergenerational conflicts between child and parent.