Understanding the Experiences of Low-Income Families During COVID-19

What have we learned from the high influx of new people accessing basic need supports from neighbourhood resource centres during COVID-19? Join us for a live virtual webinar on Thursday, September 23 at 10:30 AM.

In a recent collaboration, researchers sought to understand why Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre was seeing so many new people using their services. What were their stories? How specifically was the pandemic increasing poverty, or was something else happening? To understand more, participants completed surveys and in-depth interviews uncovering their background, needs, and experiences.

Join Jennifer Martino (Executive Director, Crouch Neighbourhood Resource Centre) and Dr. Abram Oudshoorn (Associate Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University) to learn about the recent report and key findings from the study.

Webinar registration: https://westernuniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpduGvrDwiGNwpNo1sObG86WIoWMn6mjuU

Upcoming Application Deadline for new CRHESI Grant Streams

The application deadline for CRHESI’s two new funding streams is approaching on September 15, 2021. Learn more about the new funding opportunities:

Planning/Development Seed Grant: Support for emerging or established teams of academic and community partners in planning, developing and/or carrying out the initial stages of collaborative research.

Putting Knowledge Into Action – Pilot Grant: Closing the gap between knowledge and practice, by facilitating productive exchanges among community-based and academic partners.

Both grants are made possible through the generous support of the Arthur Labatt Family.

The VOTE HOUSING Campaign

VOTE HOUSING is a national non-partisan campaign to end homelessness and housing need in Canada. This campaign has a simple but ambitious goal: to engage thousands of Canadians across the country to demand policies to end homelessness and housing need in the next federal election: “We want to harness the power of Canadians across the country to ensure all political parties support making bold investments in affordable housing and ending homelessness.”

Interested in learning more? Read the campaign platform and pledge to vote.

Stewardship of global collective behavior

Journal Club Discussion
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM ET
Location: TBD (based on pandemic restrictions)

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CRHESI, along with a cohort of research and knowledge exchange networks at Western University, is co-hosting a journal club discussion on the proposal that we should consider the science of collective human behavior a “crisis discipline.” Read the paper and RSVP for the discussion if you are interested.

Join us for a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary dialogue. The convening networks for this meeting include:

Support to Report: Supporting Sexually Assaulted Adults Working in Sex Trade or Sex Trafficked to Access Justice

In this video, Julia Parker (Executive Director, Correctional and Justice Services, Salvation Army) and Samantha Gee (Case Manager, Support to Report, Correctional and Justice Services, Salvation Army) discuss the Support to Report: Supporting Sexually Assaulted Adults Working in Sex Trade or Sex Trafficked to Access Justice program.

(This video was recorded live at CRHESI’s Lightning Talks event held on November 21, 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.)