Chilliwack’s Healthier Community Partnership Takes Collective Action

With 36 organizations involved in the Chilliwack Healthier Community (CHC) partnership, and the list continuing to grow, this enthusiastic team works to address the most urgent social issues identified by the community.  It’s a good sign when the room is still packed...

Tamarack: An Institute for Community Engagement

Tamarack is charity founded in 2001 that develops and supports learning communities to help people collaborate and co-generate knowledge that solves complex community challenges, especially poverty.

Building Communities: Alberta Municipal Affairs

This website includes resources that provide opportunities for students to explore local government in the contexts of their own community and other communities; based on a fundamental assumption that students should be involved in decision making and encouraged to...

Community Capacity Building: Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition

This website provides an overview of the Ontario Healthy Communities approach to community capacity building and links to further resources. – Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition 

The Region of Waterloo’s Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Reduction

This guide provides a brief summary of current poverty reduction activities across Canada, a description of the role of the Region of Waterloo in poverty reduction, and an overview of the region’s corporate-wide Comprehensive Approach to Poverty Reduction. – Region of...

Capacity Building: Linking Community Experience to Public Policy

A resource designed to help people in the public sector and in the community to understand how to link community experience to the policy-making process. Provides ideas about how to understand the public policy process, build capacities to link community experience to...

Communities and Local Government Working Together: A Resource Manual of Strategies

Seeks to create a climate of mutual respect and understanding between community groups and local governments by presenting Healthy Communities experiences from both the municipal and community group perspectives. – Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition

A Municipal Guide to Community Resource Inventory Development

Introduces asset inventories and their practical application to support municipalities in preparing, conducting and utilizing a community resource inventory. Topics addressed include an overview of the community resource inventory, applications and relationship to...

A Glass Half-Full: How an Asset Approach Can Improve Community Health and Well-Being

Offers local authorities, health practitioners, and politicians an introduction to the asset model approach and principles and gives examples of how it is being used in England. It also outlines a set of coherent and structured tools that put asset model principles...

A Guide to Capacity Inventories: Mobilizing the Community Skills of Local Residents

This guide provides examples of capacity inventories developed and used by different communities across the United States, as well as practical reasons and valuable tips for conducting and using capacity inventories in your community.  – John P. Kretzmann, John L....