Mood Walks: The Role of Parks and Recreation in Mental Health Promotion
This is policy brief #45 from the Niagara Community Observatory at Brock University. Dr. Kyle Rich and Dr. Martha Barnes from the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock report on their research in which they examined a partnership [...]
Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara 2019 Annual Report
The Kristen French Child Advocacy Centre Niagara (KFCACN) acts as a safe place to help, heal and end child abuse in the Niagara region. In its 2019/2020 year, KFCACN reached 697 adult allies who are advocates for protecting children and [...]
Niagara Suicide Prevention Coalition: Update and New Resources (Event Recording)
This is an event recording of the June 11, 2020 webinar with presenters Shannon McHugh, Keegan Kaior, Stephanie Hicks and Joanne Bovine. This event was hosted by Niagara Connects in partnership with the Niagara Suicide Prevention Coalition (NSPC). Fifty-six (56) [...]
Streets for Pandemic Response and Recovery
This document aggregates and synthesizes emerging practices in transportation and street design in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights cities’ current efforts to re-organize streets to best manage the crisis and support economic recovery. Emerging practices are organized into [...]
Observations in Long-Term Care Facilities in Ontario
At the request of the Province of Ontario, in late April 2020, Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) medical personnel and troops were sent to long-term care facilities in Etobicoke, North York, Pickering, Scarborough and Brampton. These facilities were in urgent and [...]
Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care in the COVID-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis offers an opportunity to create a new, better normal at Canadian long-term residential care facilities. This report’s short-term recommendations include: -making all staff permanent and limiting their work to one nursing home; -raising staff wages and benefits, [...]
Southern Ontario’s Basic Income Experience
The research study, Southern Ontario’s Basic Income Experience, is based on Ontario’s basic income pilot. The pilot was implemented in three Ontario cities in 2018 by the provincial government. Subsequently the project was terminated in 2019, following a change in [...]
Themes and Next Steps: Age-Friendly Niagara Network Special COVID-19 Online Meeting
This 2-page document summarizes comments, discussion and ideas shared at a special online Age-Friendly Niagara Network (AFNN) meeting held on May 01, 2020. The virtual meeting included leaders with Local Municipal Age-Friendly and Seniors Advisory Committees in all 12 local [...]
COVID-19 in Canada (Online Dashboard)
This online dashboard provides a snapshot of Canadian coronavirus cases, allowing people to track pandemic infections across the country each day. A simple map and graph on the site track daily numbers of reported infections, how many Canadians have recovered [...]
Social Prescribing in Ontario Final Report, March 2020
What makes people healthy isn’t just genetics and lifestyle choices. Access to healthy food, education, employment, income, and opportunities for connectedness all have significant impacts on a person’s overall health and wellbeing. Social prescribing is a specially structured way of [...]
A National Seniors Care Strategy
Although most people will rely on seniors' care at some point in their lives, Canada’s health care system isn’t equipped to meet the needs of the aging population. Canada needs a National Seniors Care Strategy to set national standards and [...]
Resources for Niagara Residents
This reference tool for Niagara residents is provided by United Way Niagara, in partnership with Niagara Gatekeepers, Community Support Services of Niagara (CSSN), and 211. Niagara Gatekeepers is a phone line referral service that anyone can call to help connect [...]
A Framework for Reopening our Province
In late April 2020, the Government of Ontario is planning for the next phase of responding to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak – reopening our province. This framework was developed as a first step, to guide the government’s approach. The framework [...]
Density Done Right – A Thoughtful Approach to Greater Urban Density in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Area
The Greater Golden Horseshoe faces a dilemma: how to accommodate millions of new residents in the next 20 years without continuing the unsustainable growth pattern of suburban sprawl and hyper-concentrated density. This report puts forward a proposal for growing municipalities [...]
Niagara Children’s Planning Council Community Connections
During uncertain times due to COVID-19, Niagara Children’s Planning Council (NCPC) wants to stay connected to its members and their community. In late March 2020, the NCPC began sharing inspiring information and resources with its members, for the purpose [...]
Canadian Statistical Geospatial Explorer Hub
The Canadian Statistical Geospatial Explorer empowers users to discover Statistics Canada’s geo-enabled data down to the smallest level of detail available, the dissemination area. Users can find, explore then export data in various formats to use in their workflows. Users [...]
Canada COVID-19 Situational Awareness Dashboard
For the latest data on how the COVID-19 outbreak is evolving in Canada, visit the Public Health Agency of Canada interactive COVID-19 Situational Dashboard for Canada. Published By: Public Health Agency of Canada Publication Date: April 2020 View Canada COVID-19 [...]
Canadian COVID-19 Open Resource Guide
This Canada-focused list of resources (information, data, best practices, etc.), created by Canada’s Open Data community, is meant to help us deal with the COVID-19 Pandemic. This crowd-sourced guide is open and written by Canadians like you, so contributors are [...]
Niagara COVID-19 Business Impact Survey Report
The Niagara COVID-19 Business Impact Survey was open to respondents from March 20 until March 30, 2020. Of the nearly 10,000 businesses that were contacted and/or reached through social media, 4,983 businesses opened the survey and 2,604 completed all or [...]
How are Canadians Coping with the COVID-19 Situation?
Between March 29 and April 3, 2020, Statistics Canada collected timely information via a new web panel online survey. This infographic presents the first findings of the Canadians Perspectives Survey Series. Published By: Statistics Canada Publication Date: April 2020 View [...]
