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North End Wellbeing Measure: Prototype Implementation and Learning
February 18, 2020 | Authored by: Dr. Jaime Cidro, Courtney Bear, Kate Rempel
“The Winnipeg Boldness Project is an Indigenous social innovation initiative. Working alongside the North End community to identify effective mechanisms to improve outcomes for young children in the Point Douglas area. The Project is working towards a …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Growing roots: A newcomer nutrition program designed using action research methods
August 27, 2019 | Authored by: Henderson, A. and Slater, J.
Many newcomers to Canada struggle with food insecurity and the health impacts of dietary acculturation. “Growing Roots” is a newcomer nutrition program designed through a community development approach to help immigrants and refugees adapt positively t …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Community Economic Development
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Futures Forward Enhancement Project: Qualitative Research of Youth Housing First Pilot Project
August 22, 2019 | Authored by: Rachel Antonia Dunsmore
This report is a qualitative evaluation of the Futures Forward six month intensive Housing First pilot project. As such, this report will provide a qualitative analysis of: (1) the pathways to youth homelessness in order to provide context of the so …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Housing Needs of Indigenous Women Leaving Intimate Partner Violence in Northern Communities
August 22, 2019 | Authored by: Allison Groening, Colin Bonnycastle, Marleny M. Bonnycastle, Kendra Nixon, Judith Hughes
The problems of intimate partner violence and housing insecurity are independent issues and each worthy of discussion on their own. However, for women in northern communities these issues are often co-occurring. Violence is a major contributor to wome …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Re-establishing their Lives
August 22, 2019 | Authored by: Colin Bonnycastle, Judith Hughes, Marleny M. Bonnycastle, Kendra Nixon, Allison Groening
This qualitative report looks at the experiences of women and children escaping violent relationships when they leave temporary solutions such as crisis centres in Northern Manitoba. Through our research, we explored both the geographic moves women ma …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
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Resettling Refugees’ Social Housing Stories
June 3, 2019 | Authored by: Ray Silvius, Emily Halldorson, Hani Ataan Al-ubeady
This paper is a companion piece to the report, Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees. The intention with the present paper is to build on our assessment in the previous work. Ultimately, we are interested in understanding the relations …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Making Social Housing Friendly for Resettling Refugees
April 29, 2019 | Authored by: Emily Halldorson, Ray Silvius, Hani Al-ubeady
This work is an extension of a longer-term project that began in 2015, in which we partnered with Welcome Place, the housing arm of the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council (MIIC), which provides housing, legal and settlement supports for newly arri …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Fast Facts: The unique social housing needs of resettling refugees
April 29, 2019 | Authored by: Emily Halldorson, Ray Silvius, Hani Al-ubeady
War and persecution force refugees to leave behind all that they know to embark on new and challenging experiences of resettlement. In Winnipeg, they meet a web of service providers willing to assist them in this process. Some of these organizations as …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Fast Facts: The changing nature of social housing in Manitoba
April 24, 2019 | Authored by: Sarah Cooper
What makes social housing ‘social’? In part, social housing is different from private-market housing because it intentionally provides low-cost housing for low-income households. But it is also a way of taking housing out of the market. It’s a way of k …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Meeting the Needs of Sexually Exploited Youth: Building on the Work of the Sexually Exploited Youth Coalition
April 24, 2019 | Authored by: Jenna Drabble
The Sexually Exploited Youth Community Coalition (SEYCC) is a grassroots, cross-sector community group that is dedicated to finding solutions to the issue of sexual exploitation of youth in Winnipeg. For more than a decade, the group has advocated for …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Category: Justice, Safety and Security
