CBRCanada Webinar: Moving the Dial On: Building Indigenous Community Relationships
Thu, Mar 30
|Webinar
Join CBRCanada in this e-learning event in the "Moving The Dial" series highlighting community-based research making positive social change.
Time & Location
Mar 30, 2023, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. EDT
Webinar
About the Event
Community-Based Research Canada presents “Moving the Dial”: our 2023 E-Learning series. This series will highlight action-oriented community-based research that is ‘moving the dial’ on today’s pressing societal challenges. An important hallmark of community-based research, taking an action-orientated and impactful approach, means research partnerships mobilizing knowledge and mobilizing communities towards positive societal change. The research projects highlighted within this series demonstrate impact of community-based research. We will hear about research partnerships that facilitated actions improving societal conditions, including changes in policies, systems, organizations, and communities where everyone is supported and belongs.
Webinar
In 2020, Niginan Housing Ventures (NHV), a registered non-profit charity formed to address housing needs and requirements of Indigenous people living in Edmonton, started a housing initiative named Omamoo Wango Gamik. This is a pilot program where youth formerly in foster care are housed in a multi-generational housing facility that provides wraparound supports along with access to Elders and…