Projects
CCBR typically has 15-20 ongoing projects and has completed over 500 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
The Pedagogies of Community Engagement partnership gathers community-engaged (CE) facilitators and academic researchers facilitating participatory action research, popular education, and/or community arts and cultural production in communities across Canada to explore approaches to community-based facilitation. This 3 year partnership grant worked towards developing a network of community-based facilitators across Canada.
The Centre for Community-Based Research partnered with the McMaster Collaborative for Health and Aging (McMaster University), Thrive Group Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Innovation, and older adult partners on several initiatives to support academic-organizational partnership development in the health and aging sector including but not limited to: organizational database development, an internal tool to assess research requests, and a full-day event to support the training of researchers and trainees in building more meaningful and sustainable research partnerships with organizations in the health and aging sector.
The Centre for Community Based Research collaborated with the KDE Hub to support the Youth Substance Use Prevention Program (YSUPP) by contributing its expertise in community-based research, capacity-building, and the development of training tools.
The Centre for Community Based Research worked closely with the CHAMPP4KIDS Study team on phase 1 of a Public Health Agency of Canada funded study aimed to create and implement relevant and accessible evidence-based parenting resources for diverse groups of caregivers. CCBR provided consultation throughout and designedand facilitating a co-design event with community members to meet project goals.
CCBR collaborated with United Way Greater Toronto (UWGT) to explore and understand the experiences of African refugee asylum seekers in Peel, York and Toronto, to identify promising practices as well as existing gaps within support systems, and to inform efforts for meaningful improvement.
CCBR, in partnership with MACC, led a 2.5-year project examining the barriers Muslim women in Halton face when seeking support for gender-based violence. The project identified community, systemic, and service-related barriers; documented promising culturally informed practices; developed recommendations for policy and practice; and shared findings through survivor narratives, reports, an infographic, a webinar, and a community summit.
The Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) collaborated with the Hamilton Immigration Partnership Council (HIPC) to develop the 2025-2028 Community Plan. Through four phases—community planning, plan development, evaluation framework creation, and community plan lunch and pledge event —the project aimed to make Hamilton a welcoming community where newcomers have a positive settlement experience and feel a sense of belonging.
The Supporting Peer Work project is a community-guided research project that explores the employment experiences of peer workers in “low barrier” social service agencies in Toronto throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The project aims to support agencies to break down structural barriers to equitable employment and learn from the transformative practices of workers with lived expertise.
