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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Goemans, Magda and Ballamingie, Patricia
- Date Created:
- 2016-08-29
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE)
- Abstract:
- In the winter of 2015, when the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project was in the preliminary stages of planning its transition to Phase II, the Community Food Security (CFS) Hub prepared a discussion paper to synthesize collective reflections from hub partners on their proposals for action priorities to be implemented over the next four years of the project (2015-2019). This discussion paper was developed based primarily on interviews conducted with approximately 30 individuals representing the broad array of community- and campus-based partners related to the CFS Hub and reflections from the CFS Hub Management Team. Following the release of this discussion paper, the CFS Hub gathered additional feedback from CFS Hub participants. at a CAFS meeting in May 2015, and via email for those unable to attend.
- Date Created:
- 2015-05-01
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Mackey, Taylor
- Description:
- Completed for: Peterborough GreenUP , Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
- Abstract:
- An urban food forest is modelled after a wild forest, but is intentionally designed and planted with food production in mind. Essentially an urban food forest is a combination of wild forest and orchard. They are made up of a close-knit community of plants that help each other. There are many benefits that an urban food forest can provide. They can improve the environment we live in; help build stronger, more resilient, communities; and can provide a host of economic benefits as well. Urban food forests help us create more sustainable communities that are healthy and enjoyable to live in. We need to rediscover our past, when we cultivated urban forests, not just for the services they provided, but also for the products as well. It is not just rural forests that can provide useable products. In fact it might even be argued that urban forests can be more productive, per unit of area, because of the intentional planning and design that goes into them. An urban food forest is a community within a community, the plants help and support one another, just as we help support one another in our communities.
- Date Created:
- 2014-04-07
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Shaw, Samantha, Johnston, Melissa, Mulrooney, Nadine, Poppleton, Matthew, Mager, Zoë, Knight-Lira, Andre, and Wilkinson, Matthew
- Description:
- Completed for: Peterborough GreenUP Professor Tom Whillans, Trent University Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
- Abstract:
- This document is a compilation of research reports written by students in the Environmental Resource Studies/Science (ERTS) 3160H class at Trent University in the winter of 2014. The research was completed in conjunction with GreenUP, Trent Centre for Community-Based Education (TCCBE), and Taylor Mackey (a graduate student research assistant in Trent’s Sustainability Studies program). The students looked critically at urban food forests around the world and made suggestions for designing a food forest in Peterborough. These reports will help inform this process alongside a report written by Taylor Mackey as part of his research assistanceship: An Urban Food Forest for Peterborough: Planting for Our Future. An urban food forest is an area in a city or town where trees, and often other plants, are intentionally planted for food production. These urban food forests often attempt to mimic natural ecosystems. Currently urban forests are generally considered valuable solely for the ecosystem services they provide, such as stormwater management. In the past these urban forests were often managed for the products they produced, rather than just the services they could provide. There is increasing interest in creating edible landscapes in urban areas. Some are starting to see urban forests as more than something that can clean the air or reduce the stormwater runoff. Some are starting to see the potential to create areas that can provide these services as well as produce food for human consumptions, as well as a host of other benefits. Most of the studied urban food forests focus on food security. Urban food forests have the potential to provide the same services as our current urban forests, but also produce food (and perhaps increase biodiversity in the process).
- Date Created:
- 2014-05-05
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Badeen, Dennis, Schryer, Brook, Fox, Karen, Xie, Guoyun, Halsey, Gordon, McTavish, Kristeen, Purdon, Matthias, and Potter, Kristen
- Description:
- Completed for: Abbey Gardens & Peterborough GreenUP; Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
- Abstract:
- Finding Common Ground for Facilitating Collaborative Partnerships stemmed from a desire among several employees of Peterborough GreenUP and Abbey Gardens to explore the potential for collaboration between both organizations. In the winter of 2014, planning began for a meeting between members of GreenUP and Abbey Gardens facilitated by Trent graduate students in the Sustainability Studies program through the Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) project and Trent Centre for Community Based Education (TCCBE). What this meeting would look like and what would be discussed evolved over the next few weeks and culminated in a daylong workshop in Bobcaygeon on April 1st, 2014. This report summarizes the main ideas that came up in several activities and presentations. It contains resources on the background of the project, next steps, and the contact information of participants from both organizations. Appendices include the presentation slides from the respective organizations presentations, staff lists and contact information for each organization, and detailed activity notes from the workshop.
- Date Created:
- 2014-04-07
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Lait, Michael
- Date Created:
- 2014-03-24
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Report on the Implementation of Domestic Violence Death Review Committee Recommendations 2007 - 2011
- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Research Change, Action
- Abstract:
- This report highlights the lack of action from ministries and organizations to help end violence against women, created by Action Research Change with the support of CFICE’s Violence Against Women Hub.
- Date Created:
- 2014-12-01
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Cullen, Blair
- Description:
- Completed for: Trent Centre for Community-Based Education : Supervising Professor: Nadine Changfoot
- Abstract:
- The Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) is a Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funded research project designed to provide insights into how post-secondary institutions and community partners can establish and maintain successful relationships that ultimately maximize the value created for non-profit organizations. CFICE is organized into five self-managing research hubs; the focus of this report is the Peterborough and Haliburton section of the Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) hub. Hub members participated in interviews and a focus group to discuss the results of four first year demonstration projects. For the most part, results were favourable, especially for community-based organizations, who pointed to a high level of influence and a number of net gains such as increased capacity and the development of valuable resources. A notable finding was the important role of community-university bridging organizations, U-Links and the Trent Centre for Community-Based Education. Participants identified both organizations as a critical ingredient to the smooth functioning of demonstration projects. Challenges participants identified included delay of grant funds, delayed ethics approval and university resistance to community-based research projects in some areas.
- Date Created:
- 2013-12-02
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Pulido, Andreina, Fralin, Sara, and Andreina, Elizabeth
- Description:
- Completed for: Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN) Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This workshop implemented SAS2 community-based research methods to facilitate direction for the Peterborough Centre for Social Innovation (PCSI) on their governance, operations, collaborations and finance strategies during their pilot project. The results will be used to provide direction on the selection of two or three case studies for interview to understand how successful social innovation organizations have connected to the community need. The results of the governance models workshop demonstrated that the PCSI should remain flexible to be reactive to the environment as many participants supported a hybrid governance and collaboration model. In addition, the operation and collaboration workshop showed that there was strong support for work space, kitchen space and programming that would provide outreach opportunities to the community. Facilitating a locally-focused social innovation centre was also a key foundation for the participants. This workshop report outlines phase one's literature review on social innovation governance and strategies, workshop results and discussion, as well as recommendations and the conclusions of this community-based research. Prepared by Sara Fralin,Andreina Pulido and Elizabeth Teleki
- Date Created:
- 2013-05-06
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- Resource Type:
- Report
- Creator:
- Teleki, Elizabeth, Fralin, Sara, and Pulido, Andreina
- Description:
- Completed for: Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN), Supervising Professor: Tom Whillans; Trent Centre for Community-Based Education
- Abstract:
- The Trent Centre for Community Based Education (TCCBE) brought together graduate students from Trent University’s Sustainability Studies Masters program with Peterborough’s Community Opportunity & Innovation Network (COIN), to collaborate on a community based research project for the Peterborough Centre for Social Innovation (PCSI). This workshop report outlines phase one's literature review on social innovation governance and strategies, workshop results and discussion, as well as recommendations and the conclusions of this community-based research.
- Date Created:
- 2013-05-07