Projects
CCBR typically has 15-20 ongoing projects and has completed over 450 projects since 1982. Each project is guided by our commitment to impacting social change in practical and powerful ways. We conduct research with people not on people, cultivating respect with communities at every step of the process.
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Projects
CCBR provided facilitation to a new community of practice (CoP) in the area of acquired brain injury and community participation. The study was funded by the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation.
CCBR 1) worked with staff and volunteers at United Way of Peel Region to identify community impact statements to guide planning and investment, 2) led consultations with community stakeholders to seek feedback, and 3) updated tracking forms and reporting tools. This project was funded by the United Way and Region of Peel.
The purpose of the project was to develop and deliver 14 leadership development events across Ontario. This project involved civic participation of cultural minorities and institutional change by eliminating systemic barriers in the mental health system. This project was funded by Citizenship Immigration Canada.
Programs Without Walls, a network of several family service agencies providing CAPC programming, asked CCBR to talk directly with the parents they work with to learn more about their perspectives on successful parenting. A report was created outlining participants’ assumptions about parenting and about what supports, and barriers affect their success. This work was funded by Macaulay Child Development Centre.
CCBR conducted three community consultations for the United Way Greater Simcoe County (UWGSC) focused on community impacts and outcomes.
CCBR was the lead community facilitator in developing a local immigration partnership that helped immigrants and refugees to successfully settle and integrate in Waterloo Region.
CCBR worked with United Way London & Middlesex to create an organizational culture that emphasizes achievement of outcomes. Tasks included running workshops for funded agencies, consulting with funded agencies individually, and helping United Way staff develop their own outcome evaluation frameworks.
CCBR developed a revised community engagement framework and measurement plans for the United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo & Area.
This consultation involved a half day workshop to develop an integrated evaluation workplan across three Best Start demonstration sites in Hamilton, Timiskaming, and Lambton/Chatham-Kent. The consultation was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services Hamilton/Niagara Regional Office.
CCBR developed a strategy and operational plan for CCI to achieve its public engagement objectives through volunteer engagement, as well as options and an operational plan for improving volunteer training and support.
CCBR advised the Family Education Centre on development of tools and plans for evaluation of a parenting education and support program in Peel Region.