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www.commdev.ca
CommDev Ottawa, Canada
CommDev's main website. The goal of CommDev is to promote the long-term health and resilience of neighbourhoods by supporting its members to address issues and concerns that negatively impact community life. CommDev focuses on the fundamental of community development and the key principles to the success of working with people at the grassroots level: collaboration, coordination, community participation and leveraging resources. The goal of CommDev is to share the lessons learned from implementation of successful communtiy initiatives with other community development agencies, the funders and local neighbourhoods in order to facilitate the process of community capacity building in other at promise neighbourhoods and communities.
www.cdfottawa.ca
CDF Ottawa
In 2007, the City of Ottawa went through extensive consultations with Community Health and Resources Centres in Ottawa, researchers, community development specialists, funding agencies and other service providers and key stakeholders. Putting together the identified key themes led to the development of Community Development Framework (CDF) as a model to support the grassroots community engagement initiatives in early 2008. Goals: The goals of the framework include: Increase neighbourhood capacity to enact positive change; Improve planning and service delivery to achieve neighbourhood-defined goals; Improve health of individual residents and their neighbourhood; Increase neighbourhood safety and perception of safety; Promote sustainability of positive change at the neighbourhood and systems levels.
www.nocommunityleftbehind/ca
NCLB Ottawa
No Comunity Left Behind was launched in 2005 a social development initiative with the objective to prevent crime and address social determinants of health through a collaborative approach and integration of services at the neighbourhood level. Over the past five years, No Community Left Behind has become a strategy development process at the neighbourhood level in which community development specialists, community policing professionals and neighbourhood activists and almost all concerned service providers collaborate to address factors that lead to communities' volunerability, crime, victimization, fear of safety, and social exclusion.
www.PremiumRealEstate.com
Community Development Framework Official Site
The Community Development Framework (CDF) is a new way of coordinating municipal and community services. It brings together funders, community organizations, residents, researchers and city services to share information and leverage resources and community strengths in order to address needs in neighbourhoods. It all starts at the neighbourhood level where residents, together with community partners, identify the strengths and gaps in their neighbourhoods and create action plans to address those gaps. Community Health and Resource Centres then connect what is occurring in the neighbourhood to the systems level where municipal, resource and knowledge transfer supports are available. These three tables operate collaboratively to build a system of supports for the grassroots neighbourhood initiatives.