African Community Services of Peel (ACS) is a not-for-profit community based charitable organization that provides settlement and integration services and programs that facilitate the early settlement of newcomers to Peel, and the surrounding areas. The ACS mission is to improve the quality of life of the members of the newcomer community by providing them the support, information, and services necessary for healthy integration into Canadian society. Its mandate is to identify and address challenges associated with the duality of cultures among newcomers, provide programs and services that promote cross-cultural understanding, and address barriers to communication, access, and integration and facilitate opportunities for self-development, within the immigrant community network with other service providers with similar goals and objectives.