CCBR conducted an evaluation of the World Vision Canada’s Free Form Program. The purpose of the evaluation was to describe and understand the activities (processes) and short-term impacts (outcomes) of the program. The evaluation determined the extent to which the program was successful in building the organizational capacity of participating organizations and made recommendations.

This project was an outcome evaluation of World Vision Canadas’ Partners to End Child Poverty (PECP) program designed to develop national strategies with community-based organizations (54 across Canada) to advance the well-being of children, their families, and the communities in which they live.

CCBR started teaching the Community Engagement and Social Development course (ISS 450R/SOC 768) for Renison University College in 2010. It highlights the importance of community member participation in matters related to their well-being and methods to encourage community involvement. Students also learn about the role that effective leadership plays in creating and sustaining social innovation. 

The purpose of this project was to conduct an evaluation of the Immigrant and Voice project in order to assess the progress that the project has made in achieving its desired outcomes. The evaluation involved designing data collection tools and building capacity of the project staff in using those tools. The evaluation was funded by Focus for Ethnic Women.

CCBR collaborated with Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario to facilitate an engagement process and mobilize knowledge from community-based initiatives designed to increase cancer screening for women. The engagement process supported reflection on practice and the creation of a shared vision of system change, designed to lead to stronger and more effective cancer screening policies and practices across Ontario.

CCBR collaborated with Echo: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario to facilitate an engagement process and mobilize knowledge from community-based initiatives designed to support smoking cessation during and after pregnancy. This process led to the development of a shared vision for system change and stronger and more effective smoking cessation policies for pregnant and post-partum women across Ontario.

CCBR worked with the First United Church in Waterloo to evaluate their senior’s outreach nutrition program. The program aimed to improve knowledge around healthy eating and meal preparation, social support, and independent living for seniors in a church community. Activities included a community kitchen and a lunch buddies program.

This project was a purpose and outcome evaluation for a Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre (KWMC) initiative designed to train immigrant youth leaders to encourage a greater uptake of leisure activities (including swimming) in immigrant communities.

This project included the design and analysis of a feedback survey for parents with children in YMCA school programs in Hamilton, Burlington, and Brantford.

This project's purpose was to identify the experiences and strategies used by Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) in integrating into their fields of work in the Greater Toronto labour market. This study was funded by the Progress Career Planning Institute.

This project was a one-year pilot-phase of the Community Research Ethics Office (CREO) in Waterloo Region. CREO was tailored to meet the needs of individuals conducting community-based research (i.e. participatory action research, program evaluations, feasibility studies, needs assessments, gap analyses). The initiative was extremely exciting as it was the first office of its kind in Canada.

This project was an analysis of evaluation data from Early Childhood Community Development Centre (ECCDC) Niagara’s Mentoring Pairs for Child Care project. Evaluation data was gathered, analyzed, and recommendations were made.