CCBR developed and delivered a tailored online community-based research certification course for Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities youth leaders and staff. Participants of online workshop sessions learned the fundamentals of community-based research.

This course, Special Topics: Research for Social Action was offered at Conrad Grebel University College to upper-year undergraduate students and Masters of Peace and Conflict Studies students. The course explored how research can be an intervention towards positive change in society. 

CCBR was a consultant to Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) on their funded research projects on mental health and cannabis. CCBR assisted research teams 1) to develop research proposals, 2) to implement a community-based research approach, and 3) to evaluate their projects.

CCBR facilitated a workshop on community needs and resource assessment in Yellowknife NWT. The workshop was developed in collaboration with community stakeholders through the School of Developmental Studies at Aurora College.

New Canadian Youth Connections was developed to support government-assisted refugee (GAR) youth, aged 12-21, as they connect to and integrate into the Waterloo Region community through recreational programming and homework support with peer volunteers.

This project laid the foundation for Food Banks Canada to evaluate its recently developed Strategic Planning Framework. The project involved developing evaluation capacity-building resources and an evaluation framework.

The purpose of this project was to develop and conduct action-oriented, user-driven, participatory research on how to reduce social isolation for parents and caregivers who stay at home with their children and for isolated seniors.

The purpose of this study was to develop and conduct action-oriented, user-driven, participatory research to test solutions with Syrian refugee youth on issues and challenges that emerged as priority concerns (school integration, family responsibilities and mental health).

The Community-Based Research Excellence Tool ( CBRET) was developed by CCBR in response to a SSHRC-funded national summit.  CBRET is a reflective tool to assess the quality and impact of community-based research projects and proposals. CCBR offers CBRET workshops.

CBR provided training, coaching, and resourcing to project researchers, community supporters, and youth researchers. The work was funded by INSPIRIT Foundation.

The purpose of this training and familiarization visit to Canada was to engage in learning about capacity for university-community engagement and build ongoing networking relationships between organizations active in community-based research. The project was funded by SILE.

CCBR Co-Director was one instructor for a 13 unit course designed for people to evaluate, analyze and improve upon programs and/or services within the workplace. This mixed offering (on-line and in-class) course was offered by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Continuing and Part-Time Studies program in partnership with the Centre for Community Research, Learning and Action (CCRLA).