Projects 

    CCBR typically has 12-15 ongoing projects and has completed over 400 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

    8939_Youth Engagement in The Mennonite Church

    CCBR collaborated with Mennonite Church Eastern Canada (MCEC) to explore how best MCEC can be a resource to its congregations and pastors regarding engaging youth in faith formation. A literature review, an online discussion board, Photovoice with youth, and focus groups with pastors and youth leaders were conducted.

    8942_Equity in The Broader Settlement Sector: Addressing Systemic Racism and Digital Equity Across The Settlement Journey

    This project was initiated and funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to gather evidence-based information to improve the settlement sector's ability to recognize, analyze, and address digital barriers and obstacles faced by racialized newcomers as they integrate into Canadian society, leading to recommendations for more equitable policies and programming.

    8945_Re-thinking How We Support Heritage in Waterloo Region

    This strategic program review of the Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation (WRHF) explored diverse stakes and interests in heritage in Waterloo Region, gained input on promising practices for engaging under-represented groups in heritage, and sought recommendations for WRHF next steps in providing more equitable, diverse, and inclusive programming.

    8946_CAPC / CPNP Projects Reflecting Together Towards Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

    This research project employed an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) framework to identify CAPC/CPNP strengths, shifting diversity, shifting needs, promising adaptations, and strategic directions for promoting more equitable and inclusive programming across Ontario.

    8948_Adapting Participatory Visual Methods to Online and Hybrid Settings with Diverse Communities

    The goal of this 2-year CIHR-funded project is to explore how participatory visual methods, specifically photovoice and digital storytelling have been adapted to online and hybrid platforms to support community-based research and related social change agendas.

    8949_”Let’s get Sexfluent! Exploring New Models for Modernizing Youth HIV Resources in Canada”

    In partnership with a youth advisory committee (YAC) and team of peer researchers, this CIHR-funded project validated the efficacy of Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research’s youth sexual health and harm reduction resource “Sexfluent”. CCBR worked alongside CANFAR and York University as a research partner on this research, and provided YAC coaching, peer researcher training, and analysis support.

    8951_ Two Projects with Canadian Mennonite University

    Two community-based research projects with Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) were conducted with a mutually reinforcing goal of institutional change. The first project developed an equity, diversity, and inclusion strategy across CMU, using a systems change framework and theological lens and the second project explored what it means for diverse constituent groups to hold CMU in common.

    8955_CBR Capacity Building with Family Child and Health Initiative

    The Family and Child Health Initiative partnered with CCBR to leverage our expertise in community-based participatory research on several projects, each seeking to address childhood and family health from a structural and social determinants of health lens. Projects foci includes: physical activity amongst adolescents; youth peer support and type 1 diabetes; building trusting, equitable, family violence prevention, and responsive healthcare during COVID-19.

    8957_Regional Accountability Models for Settlement in Peel Region

    This project was initiated and funded by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) as part of the Service Delivery Improvement stream and involved multiple phases of research and community consultation to develop a Peel-specific model for governing settlement funding. The Peel Newcomer Strategy Group was invited by IRCC to facilitate this process in partnership with the Centre for Community-Based Research.

    8959_Diversity Works: Supported Employment Experiences of BIPOC Job Seekers Who Experience Disability

    The purpose of the Diversity Works project was to explore the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour who experience disability (BIPOC-D) as they navigate the labour market with the assistance of supported employment service providers. The Centre for Community-based Research (CCBR) and the Canadian Association of Supported Employment (CASE) worked collaboratively to meaningfully engage BIPOC-D job seekers in a sequential research design that included a national survey, focus groups, in-depth interviews and photovoice.