A Review of Hamilton CAPC Council: Strengthening Relationships Through Community Engagement and Advocacy
Funded by: Public Health Agency of Canada
Newsletter from Tastebuds’, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Newsletter from Tastebuds’, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
This report provides a program review of Catholic Family Services St. Martin’s Manor and the Salvation Army Grace Haven.
Funded by: Catholic Family Services St. Martin’s Manor, the Salvation Army Grace Haven
This report was commissioned by the Hamilton Family Health team as part of their efforts to better understand one of the communities they serve and to help inform potential projects that will better integrate community services and primary health care with the goal of improving population health, specifically for youth and older adults in Dundas.
Funded by: The Hamilton Family Health Team
Using a variety of data sources, the Demographic shifts series of Hamilton’s Social Landscape bulletins explore differences between older and younger generations to uncover trends in a range of demographic characteristics of Hamilton’s population.
See previous Hamilton’s Social Landscape Bulletins
Funded by: United Way of Burlington and Greater Hamilton
This report outlines the recommendations from 2016 community consultations with LGBTQ2+ community members and ally service providers on how to make Hamilton an LGBTQ2+ Positive city to work, live, learn and play.
Community Partners: Hamilton Community Foundation, United Way of Burlington & Greater Hamilton
Created for distribution at Tastebuds’ Feast on the Farm fundraiser, held on May 26, 2016.
Funded by: Ministry of Youth and Child Services
Newsletter from Tastebuds’, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative, 2016 issues
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
The federal election is on October 19, 2015. Use Canada Votes to help spark dialogue about social issues in Canada and put them on the public agenda.
On October 19, 2015 Canadians will come together to choose the direction of policy in this country for the next 4 years. Democracy works best when citizens engage in dialogue about the society in which we want to live. Canada Votes is a tool to help spark dialogue about social issues in Canada. The federal government has a role to play in addressing them – and you can help by talking about the social issues that matter to you and asking questions to find out what will be done.
With Canada Votes you can:
THIS SERIES WAS PRODUCED BY: Canadian Council on Social Development, Community Development Council Durham, Community Development Halton, Edmonton Social Planning Council, Saint John Human Development Council,Social Planning and Research Council of BC, Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton, Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North Dumfries, Social Planning Council of Kitchener-Waterloo, Social Planning Network of Ontario, and Social Planning Toronto.
Social planning organizations across the country are helping to strengthen communities and work on social justice issues. We also recognize the need to work together around key issues affecting our communities. We have come together to provide this publication on the federal election because we believe that democracy works best when citizens engage in dialogue on important issues.
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Newsletter from Tastebuds’, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative, 2015 issues
Funded by: Ministry of Youth and Child Services
Over the course of several months in 2014 a number of community partners in Hamilton collaborated to arrange and host a series of community events that would invite and assist eligible families with young children to register for the Canada Learning Bond. The Canada Learning Bond is offered by the Government of Canada to help parents establish savings for their child’s education after high school.
Funded by: United Way of Burlington & Greater Hamilton
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Newsletter from Tastebuds’, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative, 2014 issues
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services
This report provides an evaluation of the Building Better Futures program run through the Neighbour 2 Neighbour Centre. The purpose of this evaluation has been to illuminate project outcomes, key findings and lessons learned, opportunities for improvement, and implications for the project’s future.
Funded by: Status of Women Canada
Community Partners: Neighbour 2 Neighbour Centre
This report is an evaluation of the Youth Housing Support Project (YHSP). This evaluation reports on activities and outcomes achieved throughout the timeline of April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2014.
Community Partners: The Street Youth Planning Collaborative, The Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton, The Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton, Catholic Family Services
Funded by: Government of Canada – Homelessness Partnering Strategy
This local evaluation of the Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) uses numerical data from program partners to identify numbers of sub-groups of participants and visits within each program, and presents stories from program partners about ways that their programs are making a difference in individual families’ lives, as well as challenges or unexpected outcomes. Findings suggest that continued collaboration could help partners to address common challenges such as reaching out to newcomer communities, young fathers, and socially isolated clients; recruiting, coaching, and mentoring volunteers; and finding supports for community members seeking a service that is unknown or unavailable.
Funded by: Public Health Agency of Canada
Change provides an opportunity to become more responsive. For STAR Hamilton, going through organizational changes provided an opportunity to hear more from tenants in three areas served by the organization (Oriole Crescent, Kenora Avenue, and Congress Court) about what they think is working in STAR’s programming, and what could be improved. We consulted with tenants in these through surveys (in English, French, and Arabic) and interviews. We also spoke with community partners to come up with recommendations on how STAR can better meet the needs of people living the areas it serves.
Funded by: Hamilton Community Foundation
Community Partners: Banyan Community Services, STAR of Hamilton, Boys and Girls Clubs of Hamilton
This purposes of this evaluation of the Hamilton Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) program are to 1) assess the long-term impacts of CAPC in east Hamilton since 1993; and 2) offer recommendations for program improvement. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods were used to build this assessment. Findings suggest that the program has contributed to generally improving outcomes for young children in east Hamilton, and that community organizations collaborate with one another more because of CAPC’s work.
Funded by: Public Health Agency of CanadaThis is the second in a series of occasional bulletins that focus on issues highlighted in the Hamilton’s Social Landscape report and bring attention to more recent trends.
Funded by: United Way of Burlington & Greater HamiltonIn the City of Hamilton, 319 students participated in the Youth Confidence in Learning and the Future Project survey. Of the students surveyed, 53% identified as female, while 47% identified as male. The largest response by grade was 53% from grade 10. Another 18% surveyed were in grade 12, 13% were from grade 11, 53% were from grade 10 and 16% from grade 9.
This report focuses on the City of Hamilton and looks at youth confidence in learning, in and outside of school and confidence in their futures. It also looks at the level of impact youth feel they can have on their communities and in the world.
Funded by: Ontario Trillium Foundation Community Partner: Canadian Education AssociationThe purpose of this evaluation is to explore the nature of issues related to housing and student nutrition programs as they relate to child development and well-being in East Hamilton. This evaluation integrates an independent evaluation of the Hamilton Partners in Nutrition program in the Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) area into a broader evaluation focusing on housing issues. The research supports recommendations for improving housing conditions in the CAPC catchment area, and improving Partners in Nutrition and CAPC programs more generally to enhance healthy child development.
Funded by: Public Health Agency of CanadaThis report was prepared by the SPRC in partnership with the United Way of Burlington and Greater Hamilton as a resource for addressing youth issues in Hamilton. It has been structured to focus on current knowledge about youth issues drawn from literature, practitioners and youth that is available with a particular emphasis on research that has been reported on youth over the last ten years in Hamilton.
Funded by: United Way of Burlington & Greater HamiltonThe Hamilton Community Foundation engaged the SPRC to prepare this report to give an overview of the history of Student Nutrition Programs in Hamilton, how they operate as well as their strengths and the challenges they face. This report will be an aid for developing new strategies for addressing student hunger and a universal student nutrition program.
Funded by: Hamilton Community FoundationIn 2010, the Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board requested the help of the SPRC to review demographic data with an aim to update the Equal Opportunities Program with newer data and give a basis for the committee to re-examine which schools should be part of the program. This report communicates the results of the analysis conducted.
Community Partner: Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board Funded by: Ontario Trillium FoundationThis report is a summary of all information collected for the Urban Arts Initiative consultation. The Urban Arts Initiative met for almost two years to better plan for arts opportunities with and for at-risk youth in the Hamilton community. The report describes the current literature on at-risk youth and the arts, identifies good models of practices, maps out the local opportunities and describes the advice and input solicited from community partners and young people. The report concludes with a recommendation for next steps for the steering committee.
Funded by: The Urban Arts Initiative Steering CommitteeThe Hamilton Community Action Program for Children (CAPC) is a national project with each province developing its own set of priorities and guidelines. In Ontario, there are ninety-two CAPC programs currently operating. This report is an evaluation of the Hamilton CAPC project for the April 2008 to March 2010 time period.
Funded by: Public Health Agency of CanadaThe purpose of this research was to develop a better understanding of local child care needs from the perspectives of key stakeholders, and to identify innovative strategies that complement the existing child care system and meet current needs.
Funded by: Ontario Trillium Foundation Community Partner: Today’s Family Early Learning and Child CareThis report is an evaluation of the three year project led by the Street Youth Planning Collaborative and based on the 27 recommendations in the 2005 Addressing the Needs of Street Involved and Homeless Youth in Hamilton report. It reflects the project’s status as of June 30, 2009 when the community research was completed.
Funded by: Government of CanadaThe report provides an overview of the methodology used in the study, the evolution and operation of the Under the Willows program, and findings from consultations with key stakeholders. A set of conclusions are also included, based on a synthesis of findings.
Funded by: Ontario Trillium FoundationIn 2008, the Homelessness Partnership Initiative (HPI) provided funding to The Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton (CCAS) in partnership with The Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton (CAS) and the Street Youth Planning Collaborative for a three-pronged project- 1) supporting two transitional housing projects for street-involved and parenting youth, 2) providing aftercare support to youth in the community to help maintain housing and 3) to develop a community plan for reducing the risk of street-involvement for former youth in care. This report reflects the final result of the third prong.
Funded by: Homelessness Partnering Initiative Community Partner: Street Youth Planning CollaborativeThe Stoney Creek United Church Wraparound project engaged the services of the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton in June 2008 to conduct an evaluation of the project in accordance with the terms noted in a proposal for funding to the Hamilton Community Foundation.
Commissioned by: The Stoney Creek United Church Wraparound Funded by: Hamilton Community FoundationOn March 26, 2008 the SPRC, the Street Youth Planning Collaborative (SYPC) and a group of students from the McMaster University School of Social Work 4J03 Class hosted a community discussion about drop-in programming for street-involved and homeless youth in Hamilton. This report reflects the proceedings from that event.
Community Partner: Street Youth Planning CollaborativeAt the end of the first year of the Youth Engagement and Action in Hamilton project, the staff wanted to check in with the community to talk about the successes and learnings of the project and to hear from the community about their perspectives on youth engagement. This report reflects proceedings from that check-in event.
Funded by: Hamilton Community Foundation, Heritage Canada Community Partner: YMCA of Hamilton/BurlingtonThe Youth Anti-Abuse Project Phase 2: Strengthening Supports and Expanding Diversity (YAAP) is evaluated in this report. This project was a partnership fostered by the Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton and Wesley Urban Ministries. This project spanned 15 months (January 2007 – March 2008).
Commissioned by: The Youth Anti-Abuse Project Community Partner: Sexual Assault Centre of Hamilton, Wesley Urban MinistriesThe Social Planning Network of Ontario received funding in 2006 from Human Resources and Social Development Canada’s Social Development Partnerships Program to carry out a two year project in five pilot projects in communities across Ontario that would enhance social inclusion practice and policy related to supporting families with children. The project in Hamilton was designed to engage families with young children in a process that builds their capacity to support their children’s learning and development and shapes strategies for broadening community support for welcoming and including all children. Hamilton, through the Social Research and Planning Council, elected to focus activity in east Hamilton, primarily the Riverdale community.
Funded by: Human Resources and Social Development Canada’s Social Development Partnership ProgramThe purpose of this research was to develop a better understanding of local child care needs from the perspectives of key stakeholders, and to identify innovative strategies that complement the existing child care system and meet current needs.
Funded by: Ontario Trillium Foundation Community Partner: Today’s Family Early Learning and Child Care, Saint Mark’s Cooperative PreschoolThis report is intended to provide community members and service agencies with a progress update on the implementation of the Addressing the Needs of Street Involved and Homeless Youth in Hamilton report.
Funded by: Government of Canada Community Partner: Street Youth Planning Collaborative, Street-Involved Youth NetworkOn October 10th, 2006, a forum was held in the community to provide youth with the chance to talk about issues that were most important to them. Many different youth were there, representing many different issues. In the morning, youth got together with other youth and talked about the things that impacted them the most. Seven key issues youth face in Hamilton were identified. In the afternoon, service providers (ie. teachers, social workers, and shelter staff) and youth got together to talk about strategies for change. This report is a summary of those group discussions.
Funded by: Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Ministry of Community and Social Services Community Partner: Youth TaskforceThe City of Hamilton increase in diversity necessitates a review of the operation and design of the sectors which seek to serve the public to ensure that all needs are being met. In response to this message, in September 2005, a working group and steering committee, led by Sport Hamilton, sought to better understand the issues of access to recreation for children and youth from cultural and ethno-racial groups in our community. The SPRC was commissioned to consult the community to further localize and understand the barriers faced by diverse ethno-racial children and youth.
Funded by: Heritage CanadaThe purpose of the Consultation Session was to identify ways that the transition out of care and into adulthood could be made more successfully. This report is based on the input from these discussion groups, and is provided for the Working Group who will be developing the Youth Leaving Care policy. The report briefly reviews the methods used for collecting the information, as well as analyzing the findings. The results section identifies each question and the key themes that were found. The conclusion draws attention to several of the key findings of the discussion.
Community Partner: Children’s Aid Society of Hamilton
