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Resources

 REPORT: Connecting Community – 2016 Highlights
 REPORT: Improving Neighbourhood Safety – 2016 Highlights

These resources are provided to support people who are living and working in their local communities to create positive change. All but the section, Working with Partners, are organized using the same themes as are used in the Ottawa Neighbourhood Social Capital Forum tools. Further resources will be added as they become available. If you have a resource that you think others would find useful in their local community development, please contact tammyc@seochc.on.ca so that we can add it to this living collection of resources.

Arts

• Building Community through theatre :Overbrook the Musical Manual:

Access to Community Services

 

• Coalition of CHRCs
• Community Information Centre of Ottawa-211ontario

Access to Space

• Accessing Faith Based Space for Community Meetings
• Guide for Community Groups on Approaching Local Businesses to Provide Community Space
• Finding and Booking Space for Meetings (PDF)
• A Quick Guide to Accessing Space in Schools (Printable pamphlet [8.5 x 14])
• Working with Community Associations in Requesting Access to City of Ottawa Meeting and Programming Space (PDF)

Access to Transportation

• Rural Community Transportation Guide –TRANSPO BROCHURE 2
• Equipass
•  8-80 Cities:

Addressing Poverty

• Ontario Poverty Reduction Strategy

Beautification

• CPO Community Solutions – Beautification Today, Safer Tomorrow (PDF)
• Doing a community clean-up

Civic Participation and Leadership

• CAWI:
• Civic Engagement Kit:
• Creating the Change We Want:
• Ottawa Neighbourhoods & Community Engagement Tamarack Webinar – Jan 23 2018 v1 and Video:
• Synapcity:

Community Development

• In the Heart of Lowertown Episode 3 Community Development
• Guiding Principles of Community Development

Community Safety (Personal and Property)

• Crime Prevention Ottawa neighbourhood safety publications:
• Crime Prevention Ottawa Neighbourhood Toolkit:
• Improving Neighbourhood Safety – Highlights 2016 
• Trauma Post-Incident Response Tool – Community residents – 2 page 2 column – Final – EN:
• UNLOC: A Story of Neighbourhood-based Crime Prevention:  
• CPO-Cootie Catcher Parent Tips-EN:
• CPO-Cootie Catcher Parent Tips-ARABIC:
• Neighbourhood Trauma- What to do when a violent or traumatic incident happens:
• City of Ottawa Safer Road

 

Connecting Neighbours

• Asset-based community development:
• Accessible event planning toolkit (PDF)
• Community Outreach: Lessons Learned and Good Practices (PDF):
• Connecting Neighbours Highlights 2016:
• Nationbuilder Story Building Guide (PDF):
• Organizing a special event: Our Neighbourhood Toolkit
• Ottawa Neighbourhood Social Capital Forum
• Ottawa Neighbourhood Study:
• Planning a block party
• Publishing a community newspaper
• Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities & Local Government (PDF):

Digital Connection

• Co-Creation Practices for Meaningful Participatory Virtual Engament Manual:
• Leading Effective and Engaging Zoom Meetings:

Equity and Inclusion

• Equity and Inclusion Handbook:
• Equity Ottawa:
• Anti-racism Directorate:
• Diversity Calendar 2023:

 Good Food for All

• CDF Growing Neighbourhood Food Security – 2014 Summary (PDF)
• Just Food Community Gardens network:
• Goodfoodottawa.ca/foodlink: FoodLink Directory:
• Good Food Box
• Ottawa Food Policy Council:
• Food Futures Youth Council – Just Food
• FoodSharing Ottawa

Health and Well-being

• Community Health and Resource Centres: T
• Council on Aging of Ottawa:
• Facilitation for Healthy Communities Toolkit
• Mental Health Resources –  2018
• Newcomer Health Centre:
• Ottawa Insights:
• Ottawa Public Health Information
• Ottawa Public Health Neighbourhood Health and Wellness Hubs:
• Counselling Connect:
• BRISC/CSIRN(Black, Racialized Individuals Support Channel) BritanniaWoods CH:
• Grief and Loss (PDF)
• Peer Support Forum June 2021:
• ACB Mental Health and Substance Use Resource

Legal Supports

• Community Legal Services Ottawa:
• Ottawa’s Community Legal Services

New Canadians

• Language Interpretaion and Translation Services (IWSO):

Opportunities for Children and Youth

• Ottawa Child and Youth Initiative Growing up Great:
• ParticipACTION
  • Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth – Highlight Report (PDF):
• African, Caribbean, Black(ACB)Resource List

Working with Partners

• Celebrating Resident Engagement in Community Decision-Making (video)
• Community Outreach: Lessons Learned and Good Practices (PDF):
• Engaging Local Businesses in Community Development and Crime Prevention (Crime Prevention Ottawa report – PDF):
• Federation of Citizen’s Associations of Ottawa
• Honorarium Guiding Principles and Considerations:  .
• Learning from Experience: Conditions that Support the Success of the CDF Approach (PDF):
• Meeting minutes (PDF): Template from CCWW guide.
• Neighbourhood action plan (template): Template from CCWW guide.
• Ottawa Public Health
• Resources for Dealing with Conflict (PDF):
• Summary Report – Learning Exchange on Neighbourhood Partner Committees
• What does it Mean to Become a Member of a CDF Local Community Partners Committee?

Don’t See What You Are Looking For?

The Creating the Change We Want guide includes:

• The Enjoying Effective Meetings helps neighbours as they start working together.
• The Planning Action workshop to help with setting goals and creating an Action Plan for your neighbourhood.