Community mobilization

Community volunteers Joanne and John at CCBR-initiated Paulander neighbourhood forum and celebration.

Social innovation building block #3

Use research to inspire and build relationships among people who, in turn, use the knowledge they jointly produce to guide their collective social action.

CCBR sees research as a way to bring people together around shared problems -even if people have never collaborated before. By facilitating people to come up with creative solutions, they begin the journey of working together in new ways.
CCBR case examples: Deinstitutionalization and Closing Institutions in Canada | Support Clusters | Mobilizing Waterloo Region around Immigrant Employment

"A community becomes mobilized when a particular group of people becomes aware of a shared concern or common need, and decides together to take action in order to create shared benefits."

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Community Mobilization and AIDS

Formerly Centre for Research and Education in Human Services (CREHS)