Interprofessional Education for Quality Improvement Program (I-EQUIP)
This is a collaborative program with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine- Niagara Regional Campus, McMaster University and health system partners in Niagara. The focus of this program is to engage [...]
Social Assistance Reform Network of Niagara
Social Assistance Reform Network of Niagara is a network of front line agencies, organizations, Churches and individuals who together have been working to promote the welfare reforms of Judge George Thomson's Transitions document since 1988. SARNN meets monthly September through [...]
INCommunities
INCommunities (formerly Information Niagara) is a multi-service agency operating three main programs: Information and Referral, Volunteer Connections and Interpreters Niagara/Hamilton. It is accredited by the Alliance of Information and Referral Systems (AIRS). The Information and Referral Program - 211, helps people [...]
Niagara Community Observatory
The Niagara Community Observatory (NCO) is a unit of Brock University. The NCO works in partnership with the Niagara community to foster, produce, and disseminate evidence-based research on current and emerging issues. The Observatory invites members of the Brock community [...]
Common Front Line Focus Group
The front line staff of Niagara's literacy and basic skills agencies come together to share resources and information, and develop joint strategies. Gay Douglas Broerse Executive Director Literacy Link Niagara CONTACT DETAILS Email: execdir@literacylinkniagara.ca
Literacy Services Planning Group
Program managers of Niagara's adult literacy and basic skills programs meet every 2 months to identify needs and gaps and joint strategies. For more information visit www.literacylinkniagara.ca Gay Douglas Broerse Executive Director Literacy Link Niagara CONTACT DETAILS Email: execdir@literacylinkniagara.ca
Niagara Poverty Reduction Network Transportation Working Group
The Transportation Working Group is primarily focued on promoting use and continuance of the Niagara Region's inter municipal transit system. The overiding theme is that an affordable, reliable regional transit system is a base service for all residents of Niagara, [...]
Heart Behavioural and Environmental Assessment Team (HBEAT)
This study has proposed to examine the connection between social determinants and high blood pressure in children, and explore the processes and pathways of these connections. Terry Wade Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences Brock University CONTACT DETAILS Email: twade@brocku.ca
Building a Mental Health & Addictions Charter for Niagara
To set the framework for planning and action required to build a continuous integrated Mental Health System with a common agenda, so that each community member's needs are fully met as efficiently and effectively as possible. Click here to view [...]
Niagara Housing and Homelessness Action Plan
People throughout Niagara working in housing and homelessness have been working together to help Niagara Region Community Services staff develop Niagara’s Housing and Homelessness Action Plan. The resulting draft report, “A Home for All: Niagara’s 10-year community action plan to help [...]
