Featured Resources
This page features sample resources produced collaboratively by CCBR and our partners. To find more tools, guides, and supports relevant to your interests or needs, or to view our past projects, we invite you to explore our full searchable database.
Videos
Breathing Life into Theory
Advancing Community-Based Research in Canada
Building a Community-Based Culture of Evaluation
Youth Engagement in Mennonite Church Eastern Canada Churches
Towards a Theory of Change for Community-Based Research
Let Me Just Share My Screen: a podcast on conducting Participatory Visual Methods online
Websites
During the pandemic, many face-to-face qualitative research methods, including arts-informed methods, had to shift online. This change opened up new opportunities and posed unique challenges. The Centre for Community Based Research is working with the Arts-Informed Methods team at Trillium Health Partners to understand how other participatory visual methods practitioners are using methods like photovoice, cellphilming, or digital storytelling in virtual and hybrid environments. Participatory Visual Methods are not just about research - they are about communities sharing their stories that advocate for change. The project resources created to date include a podcast, infographic series, an introductory video, and a webpage.
A national hub for community-based evaluation in Canada’s newcomer settlement and resettlement sector. It’s designed to strengthen the capacity of individuals and organizations serving refugees and immigrants.
The Positive Actions initiative—part of The Positive Effect—is a national, peer-driven grant program that encourages community-led projects to dismantle HIV stigma in Canada, with support through funding, guidance materials, and training in both official languages.
This website has resources to help grassroots communities, small start-ups, and community-based organizations build a culture of reflective practice when working to eliminate violence and promote peaceful and equitable societies. While this particular website focuses on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 (quality education), 5 (gender equity) and 16 (peace), resources can be used to support community-based evaluation efforts across all 17 SDGs.
This toolkit explains the 'what', 'why' and 'how' of youth-led community-based research. It is a flexible tool that can be applied to range of topics. Using this tool you will learn the basics of how to work together in a way that is community-driven, participatory and action-oriented.
Check out this 5-part learning series that will help you to plan and implement a community-based evaluation in your own organization!These tools are part of the EvalHub of the Evaluation Capacity Network (ECN) that emphasize an approach to evaluation that is community-driven, participatory and action-oriented.
This Packet has been compiled as a summary of three research projects undertaken by the Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) projects were funded by IRCC and SSHRC. The resources describe the experience of Syrian newcomers and of communities trying to support them. The resources also include suggestions for better supporting refugees in our communities.
This online toolkit provides practical guidelines for conducting needs assessment and impact evaluation. It was funded by the Ontario Network of CAPC/CPNP Programs and the Evaluation Capacity Network and tailored to CAPC/CPNP (Community Action Program for Children and Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program) across Ontario.
During the pandemic, many face-to-face qualitative research methods, including arts-informed methods, had to shift online. This change opened up new opportunities and posed unique challenges. The Centre for Community Based Research is working with the Arts-Informed Methods team at Trillium Health Partners to understand how other participatory visual methods practitioners are using methods like photovoice, cellphilming, or digital storytelling in virtual and hybrid environments. Participatory Visual Methods are not just about research - they are about communities sharing their stories that advocate for change. The project resources created to date include a podcast, infographic series, an introductory video, and a webpage.
A national hub for community-based evaluation in Canada’s newcomer settlement and resettlement sector. It’s designed to strengthen the capacity of individuals and organizations serving refugees and immigrants.
The Positive Actions initiative—part of The Positive Effect—is a national, peer-driven grant program that encourages community-led projects to dismantle HIV stigma in Canada, with support through funding, guidance materials, and training in both official languages.
This website has resources to help grassroots communities, small start-ups, and community-based organizations build a culture of reflective practice when working to eliminate violence and promote peaceful and equitable societies. While this particular website focuses on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 (quality education), 5 (gender equity) and 16 (peace), resources can be used to support community-based evaluation efforts across all 17 SDGs.
This toolkit explains the 'what', 'why' and 'how' of youth-led community-based research. It is a flexible tool that can be applied to range of topics. Using this tool you will learn the basics of how to work together in a way that is community-driven, participatory and action-oriented.
Check out this 5-part learning series that will help you to plan and implement a community-based evaluation in your own organization!These tools are part of the EvalHub of the Evaluation Capacity Network (ECN) that emphasize an approach to evaluation that is community-driven, participatory and action-oriented.
This Packet has been compiled as a summary of three research projects undertaken by the Centre for Community Based Research (CCBR) projects were funded by IRCC and SSHRC. The resources describe the experience of Syrian newcomers and of communities trying to support them. The resources also include suggestions for better supporting refugees in our communities.
This online toolkit provides practical guidelines for conducting needs assessment and impact evaluation. It was funded by the Ontario Network of CAPC/CPNP Programs and the Evaluation Capacity Network and tailored to CAPC/CPNP (Community Action Program for Children and Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program) across Ontario.
Reports & Infographics
Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre (PQWCHC) and the Trip! project partnered with the Centre for Community Based Research to co-design and conduct a community-based evaluation in order to explore the extent to which the current Trip! project model is aligned with 1) current drug using trends amongst diverse youth in the community; and 2) PQWCHC’s values, vision, and mission of providing “equitable, accessible urban health care for people where, when, and how they need it.”
These findings informed a collaborative process of identifying recommendations for more equitable youth harm reduction program delivery in Toronto.
The Centre for Community-based Research (CCBR) and the Canadian Association of Supported Employment (CASE) conducted a community-based research study of the experiences of BIPOC-D job seekers at all stages of the employment journey.
The findings outlined in this report capture 1) the experiences of BIPOC jobseekers who experience disability; 2) the strengths and challenges faced by employment service providers who assist BIPOC jobseekers who experience disability; and 3) the experiences of employers as they strive to diversity their staff. The report includes recommendations for change we collected as part of our discussions with BIPOC-D job seekers, SES providers and employers.
Click to view the Report.
Click to view the Infographic.
This report summarizes research findings from the Guelph-Wellington Newcomer Youth Mental Health Study. This study was conducted by the Centre for Community-Based Research (CCBR) in partnership with the Guelph-Wellington Local Immigration Partnership (GWLIP) and funded by Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC). The purpose of this study was to examine newcomer youth understandings of mental health and services in Guelph-Wellington as well as provide recommendations for how to foster positive mental health outcomes for newcomer youth.
The Centre for Community Based Research designed and conducted an evaluation of the Connecting Refugees to Virtual Waterloo Region project. The evaluation helped this new program adapt and plan for the future. Led by Reception House Waterloo Region and funded by Hallman Foundation, the purpose of this project was to ensure refugee families have technology access and are supported from the point of arrival in building their digital literacy. Take a look at the recent infographic designed by the team, sharing project findings.
In this book we present findings from a global study of institutional arrangements for the facilitation and support of research partnerships between civil society organizations (CSOs) and higher education institutions. The book outlines a number of important trends, challenges and approaches associated with how research partnerships are initiated, supported, and evaluated through a comparative study of different types of institutional arrangements. This includes a detailed overview of a global survey administered in over fifty countries and four languages, and twelve country case studies demonstrating strong institutional and policy support for community-university research partnerships.
Researchers want to work with you. But how do you decide whether you want to work with them? Here’s a checklist of minimum expectations you can have of good research partners.