Community Based care reaching people before their breaking point
Residents like Fatima are making a difference in their communities before crises hit. The CDF Resident leader peers gain skills to host neighbourhood activities [...]
Ottawa Health Team- – Équipe Santé- Ottawa Covid 19 Community Response-Resident Leaders
Community Ambassadors and Resident Leaders were critical. Their lived experience and deep connection with community allowed them to offer exceptional wisdom to inform strategy [...]
Ottawa Morning with Robyn Bresnahan
We are pleased to share the CBC story about the Community Development Framework’s mental wellbeing peer pilot project funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation. [...]
Newsletter July 2021
2021 began with a Sacred fire on the winter solstice, December 20th, in Dundonald Park, led by an Indigenous fire keeper, supported by Centretown [...]
CDF 2020 Project Summary Video
In 2020. CDF priority neighbourhood partner residents and agencies responded effectively during COVID due to many years of established and strong relationships. Together we [...]
Virtual CDF Learning Forum was a huge success
The annual CDF Learning Forum brings together residents and service providers from priority neighbourhoods, suburbs and rural communities across Ottawa. Together they celebrate their [...]
Lunch and learns, 725 Bernard
Prior to the pandemic, resident leaders Cat and Stephen assisted in offering “lunch and learns” for the residents of 725 Bernard. This included a [...]
Chalk Art to Build Engagement
Arts and Culture make a great contribution to the wellbeing of our communities. The Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre is using chalk as a brilliant [...]
Painted rocks in Carlington
Residents in the Carlington community have been painting small rocks and leaving them on people's front yards. It has turned into quite the adventure [...]
Mental Health and COVID-19
It's normal for situations like Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to affect your mental health. Everyone will experience these events in their own way. It is completely natural [...]