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.

    Projects can be searched for using words from the project title or using the service area, theme, or date range for the project. You can also type 'Service Area' or 'Theme' into the search bar to get a list of options in each of these fields.

    Projects

    CCBR evaluated a differential response to families affected by women abuse. This evaluation was funded by Region of Peel.

    CCBR developed a framework and recommendations for ongoing evaluation of a provincial program for young children with autism and conducted an evaluation plan for the Preschool Intervention Program for Children with Autism. This work was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Children and Youth Services.

    CCBR consulted with students and employees about the use they had made of a strategic plan completed two years previously and made recommendations about next steps with respect to updating or renewing the strategic plan.

    CCBR supported Waterloo Region Social Services Department in assessing trends and needs in the shelter system in Waterloo Region through consulting on research tools, conducting interviews with service users, and analyzing data from the interviews and from focus groups with service providers.

    CCBR assisted with a national survey of Military Family Resource Centres that assessed the need for licensed group child care on military bases, and the current and potential roles of MFRC’s in providing child care.

    This project's purpose was to conduct a research study to plan and explore an appropriate and effective health response to children and youth who were recently assaulted. The project was funded by Scarborough Regional Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care Centre.

    This research study analyzed the current funding environment of immigrant employment services and provided a framework of the necessary elements of programming and associated supports required to effectively integrate immigrants with a diversity of needs into the labour market. This study was funded by Policy Roundtable Mobilizing Professions and Trades (Council of Agencies Serving South Asians).

    CCBR designed and implemented a process and outcome evaluation of international policy engagement and advocacy strategies to enhance inclusion of people with disabilities. The evaluation was funded by Canadian Association for Community Living.

    This project’s purpose was to develop evaluation tools and provide analysis and reporting for a coordinated service response for child witnesses of women’s abuse. The project was funded by Catholic Family Counselling of Peel-Dufferin.

    CCBR facilitated a multi-stakeholder, collaborative planning process to develop a five-year community plan for strengthening the coordination and effectiveness of services for people living with HIV and communities at risk. This process was funded by AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo & Area (ACCKWA).

    CCBR designed and implemented a process evaluation of a national multi-site institutional ethnography of key community factors that put people with intellectual disabilities at risk for violence. This evaluation was funded by the
    Canadian Association for Community Living.

    CCBR designed and implemented a process and short-term outcome evaluation of a family support policy capacity building strategy. The policy goals were to advance the full citizenship of people with disabilities by enabling caring relationships among family members as one source of disability-related support. The evaluation was funded by Canadian Association for Community Living,