Niagara Job Demand Reporting April – June 2016
This infographic provides as summary of how and where jobs were posted in Niagara, type of jobs offered and education requirements for jobs posted between April - June 2016. Published By: Niagara Workforce Planning Board Publication Date: 2016 View Niagara Job Demand [...]
October 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics [...]
Campus-Community Connection Toolkit
This toolkit is developed to help Ontario’s post-secondary service providers enhance capacity to support students with complex mental health and/or addiction concerns through the creation of campus-community partnerships and circles of care. This toolkit includes promising practices, resources, and templates that will help [...]
The Economic Shift: How Welland is Repainting the Canvas of its Local Economy
Canadian cities and towns are either adopting (or are in need of adopting) a new economic development canvas. Some municipalities are starting with a clean slate and creating a new economic scenery. Others have remnants of unforgotten stories that either [...]
S.C.I.P.S. Tool: Guidelines and Resources for Youth Suicide Prevention in Niagara
The S.C.I.P.S. Tool and Accompanying Guide is intended to help primary care providers identify individuals at risk and navigate the appropriate systems with mental health partners in Niagara. This tool was shared as part of a webinar on September 21, [...]
S.C.I.P.S. Tool: Guidelines and Resources for Youth Suicide Prevention – Event Recording
This is an event recording of the September 21, 2016 webinar with presenters Kyrsten Boucher & Julie K. Campbell. 109 participants joined this event from 42 different organizations across Niagara. During this webinar presenters provided a brief review of suicide risk [...]
A Case for the Need for Standards for Older Adult Recreation Programs: A Literature Review
For the first time in Canadian history, people over the age of 65 outnumber those under the age of 15. Governments, organizations and individuals have been working collaboratively to assess the impact of a rapidly ageing population. Undoubtedly, the demographic shift is [...]
The Very Poor and the Affordability of Housing
A considerable momentum has developed around the perceived need for a national affordable housing strategy. The design of any such strategy should recognize who is in need, the size of the need, and where that need is greatest. This report [...]
September 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics Canada provides data [...]
A Way Home: Youth Homelessness Community Planning Toolkit
The toolkit is designed as a resource for organizations and/or individuals considering or already leading community efforts to develop strategic responses to youth homelessness. Most likely, you are working in or with non-profit, government, lived experience and private sector stakeholders [...]
Niagara Catholic District School Board: Mental Health and Addictions Strategy
The Mental Health and Addictions Strategy of the Niagara Catholic District School Board, through the charisms of faith, social justice, support and leadership, recognizes and honours the responsibility of the entire community to reach out in faith, hope and love [...]
Niagara Cycling Tourism Report
Since the creation of the Greater Niagara Circle Route and the development of Niagara Region’s Transportation Strategy in 2002, cycling has become a “top of mind” means of sustainable, active transportation in Niagara and part of promoting a healthy lifestyle [...]
Backgrounder: Rural Complete Streets
This backgrounder is based on a scan of Complete Street best practices in rural Canadian municipalities. The objective was to look at the unique challenges that rural areas face in adopting and implementing Complete Street policies, and also to share some [...]
A Home for All Task Force
A Home for All is the community's ten year vision for those facing homelessness and other housing issues; it is a ten-year plan that lays out priorities, goals and actions to help realize that vision. A Home for All identifies five key areas [...]
Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada
The goal of the report, ‘Coming of Age: Reimagining the Response to Youth Homelessness in Canada’ is to present an argument for approaching how we respond to youth homelessness in a new way.The report achieves this by pulling together key [...]
Small Business Resource Centre
This online repository for business planning includes business plans, videos, how-to guides, templates and case studies. Published By: Meridian Credit Union View Small Business Resource Centre
Atlas of the Aging Population of Canada
The Atlas of the Aging Population of Canada is an interactive atlas that anyone from the community, researchers, undergraduate and graduate students are invited to use to learn more about the older population of their community, geographic patterns across their [...]
August 2016: Labour Market Observer (St. Catharines-Niagara Census Metropolitan Area)
The monthly labour market observer presents local, provincial, and national labour market data from the previous calendar month. Raw data from the infographic may be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet or as a CSV file. Readers should note that Statistics Canada provides data [...]
McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Browse the portal for evidence summaries and blog posts about topics related to health conditions, healthcare delivery and healthy aging practice. Published By: McMaster University View McMaster Optimal Aging Portal
Youth Volunteer Engagement: Skills Development and Social Inclusion
Volunteering helps people and communities reach their potential. With 44% of Canadians 15 years of age and older volunteering an average of 154 hours each year, youth (aged 15-24 years) are leading the way with a volunteer rate of 55%. [...]
