Niagara Community Foundation 2017 Annual Report: Helping Good People Build Smart and Caring Communities
This annual report describes the ways in which the Niagara Community Foundation (NCF) has enabled community improvement by providing funding and community knowledge, and brought organizations together to form partnerships based on the respective strengths of each organization to focus [...]
A Home for All: Niagara’s Housing and Homelessness Action Plan 2018 Community Update
A Home for All is Niagara’s 10-year Community Action Plan to help everyone in Niagara have a home. Since 2013 the plan has enabled the coordination of responses to the community’s housing and homeless needs. It provides a complete and [...]
Strengthening Employee Recruitment and Selection Processes in Niagara (Event Recording)
This is an event recording of the June 6, 2018 webinar with speakers Ashley Flett, Amber Tremblay and Melissa Wilson from Job Gym Employment Services. During this webinar, presenters discussed: Different options to assist employers with employee recruitment and selection [...]
Identifying Built Barriers: Where Do Our Most Vulnerable Older Adults Live in Ontario’s Mid-Sized Cities?
Rapid population aging and mass migration to cities are the greatest demographic shifts of our time. Overwhelmingly, older adults in this country have expressed a desire to age-in-place, but this begs the question: how well do the places we live [...]
Local Labour Market Planning Report 2017
This report is an annual summary of the developments, challenges, and strengths of the local labour market. Additional labour market information is always available at niagaraworkforce.ca Published By: Niagara Workforce Planning Board Publication Date: 2018 View Local Labour Market Planning Report 2017
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Report on Health and Aging in Canada: Findings from Baseline Data Collection 2010-2015
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is Canada’s largest and most comprehensive study on the health and well-being of the country’s aging population. The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) Report on Health and Aging in Canada tells us that: [...]
Make the Right Call: Thorold Rack Card
This two-sided information card helps Thorold citizens make the right call. One side describes the differences between 211,411,511,911 and the City of Thorold number. The second side keeps important Thorold phone numbers at your fingertips. This rack card is an [...]
Creating an Age-Friendly Business Guide (City of Thorold)
An age-friendly business provides goods, services and/or spaces creating an age-friendly environment more welcoming to our aging population and the broader community and its members. Today’s older adults are different than yesteryear’s seniors as they are increasingly: Well and active, [...]
Age-Friendly Niagara Network: Implementing the Niagara Aging Strategy & Action Plan (NASAP) Focused Action Priorities (2018-2019)
This two-page roadmap describes the governance structure of the Age-Friendly Niagara Network, as well as the 2018-2019 focused action priorities across three Action Groups: Community Engagement and Communications Recreation, Learning and Leisure Improved Services, Systems and Infrastructure Published By: Age-Friendly Niagara Network [...]
Normalizing Conversation, Not Consumption: A Public Health Approach to Cannabis (Community Consultations)
Between 2017-2018 the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) led 23 community consultations across Canada to seek input from health and social service providers who were curious about how to respond to cannabis use in their communities. On April 13, 2018, [...]
Promising Practices: 12 Case Studies in Supportive Housing for People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues
This resource guide documents 12 examples of promising practices in supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction issues from across Ontario. The case studies documented in this guide are examples of the high quality work that is being [...]
The Health of Niagara Residents Across the Lifespan: Using a Life-Course Approach to Improve Well-Being (Event Recording)
This is an event recording of the May 2, 2018 webinar with presenter Dr. Sinead McElhone. 44 participants joined this event from 20 different organizations across Niagara. During this webinar, Dr. McElhone offered a new way of looking at health, not [...]
Race to the Top: Developing an Inclusive Growth Agenda for Canada
This report seeks to provide guidance to policymakers looking to put Canada on a path towards more inclusive growth. It begins by assessing Canada’s record across a range of key metrics related to inclusive growth, ranging from income inequality to [...]
Uncertain Jobs, Certain Impacts: Employment Precarity in Niagara
Poverty and Employment Precarity in Niagara (PEPiN) has completed a research study on precarious employment and its impact in Niagara. Unemployment rates may be lower than previous years, however, a little over half of working-age Niagara residents have some form [...]
The Future of Niagara’s Health: Using a Life-Course Approach to Improve Well-Being (Policy Brief #31)
This policy brief is an attempt to enrich public discourse and advance novel approaches to designing and implementing Niagara’s public-health policy agenda. The discussion embraces a holistic life-course perspective that is strategic in its orientation, and comprehensive in its scope [...]
YMCA Niagara Annual Report for the Community 2016-2017
This annual report provides a spotlight on the programs and impact of YMCA Niagara between 2016-2017 Published By: YMCA Niagara Publication Date: 2018 View YMCA Niagara Annual Report
Pot + Driving
Young Canadians have one of the highest rates of cannabis consumption in the world and many misperceive the risks associated with cannabis-impaired driving. CPHA developed the Pot and Driving campaign, informed by youth focus groups and key informants, to facilitate [...]
Youth in Niagara: Highly Skilled, Highly Mobile (Policy Brief #32)
With Niagara’s shift toward an aging population, our authors looked to the region’s youth to examine where Niagara’s workforce is headed, highlight potential future opportunities, and understand where Niagara’s youth fit within a broader provincial snapshot. This paper updates the [...]
Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Ontario’s Children and Youth: Children’s Mental Health Ontario 2018 Pre-Budget Submission
The 2018-19 budget offers an opportunity to significantly increase the ability of accredited child and youth mental health centres to meet the needs of infants, children, youth and families. This pre-budget submission is offered on behalf of Children's Mental Health [...]
Improving Prosperity for Niagara’s Women Business Owners (Final Report)
Small business has been proposed as the way forward for our region to address Niagara's high unemployment rate as reported by Statistics Canada. This report describes a 3-year project aimed to increase the economic prosperity of women business owners in [...]
