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The IRCOM Model: Housing and wrap-around supports for newcomers in Winnipeg
November 22, 2016 | Authored by: Jill Bucklaschuk
The successful settlement and integration of immigrants and refugees is a multifaceted, complex, and long-term process that requires the dedication and involvement of both newcomers and the community in which …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Anti-colonial Methodologies and Practices for Settler Colonial Studies
October 21, 2016 | Authored by: Elizabeth Carlson
Indigenous scholars have called on settler people to engage in processes of decolonization. To investigate how white settler individuals living on Indigenous lands occupied by the Canadian state are responding …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Refugee Parental Involvement in Children’s Education in Winnipeg
October 17, 2016 | Authored by: Fadi Ennab
A presentation by Fadi Ennab at the Strangers in New Homelands Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba on October 13, 2016.
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Fast Facts: Lessons from Syrian refugee resettlement in Winnipeg
October 13, 2016 | Authored by: Ray Silvius, Hani Al-Ubeady, Emily Halldorson
As the Syrian refugee crisis continues, so do Canada’s — and Manitoba’s — obligations toward refugee resettlement. With a reported 900 Syrians to arrive in Manitoba before the end of …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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It’s Time to Give Back to Manitoba’s North
September 12, 2016 | Authored by: Lynne Fernandez
A new Errol Black Chair report released today examines how events are unfolding in Churchill and The Pas. It puts these events in the context of the entire Northern region …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development
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Social Housing with Supports: The case of WestEnd Commons
July 12, 2016 | Authored by: Jess Klassen
Since late 2014, twenty-six families in Winnipeg’s inner city have been living in a new, supportive social and affordable housing complex called WestEnd Commons. The innovative development was retrofitted in …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
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Fisher River Cree Nation: Innovative solutions toward improved post-secondary education experiences and outcomes
June 6, 2016 | Authored by: Shauna MacKinnon
Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) is located two hundred kilometers north of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. As is the case with many First Nations, its membership is young …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Financial Inclusion and Manitoba Indigenous People: Results from an urban and rural case study
February 4, 2016 | Authored by: Jerry Buckland, Dion McKay, Nolan Reimer
This research project used a case study approach to examine access to mainstream Financial Institution (FI)1 services in one rural First Nation community and among Indigenous People in inner city …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Community Economic Development
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Defining effective supports for students with emotional and behavioural disorders: The wraparound approach in the context of a community school
February 1, 2016 | Authored by: Nadine Bartlett
Children and youth with emotional and behavioural disorders [EBD] have complex needs that span an array of service providers (Stroul & Friedman, 1994; VanDenBerg, 2008) and given the paucity of …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building
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Fast Facts – The Next Step: Literacy Programming in Manitoba
January 27, 2016 | Authored by: Jim Silver
Low levels of adult literacy in Manitoba are a barrier to full participation in our society. Easily accessible supports, located in low-income communities are needed to address this challenge, a …
Grant: Partnering for Change: Community-Based Solutions for Aboriginal and Inner-City Poverty - 2012-2019
Stream: Education, Training, and Capacity Building, Housing and Neighbourhood Revitalization
