Exploratory Community-Based Action Research : Balancing Research and Action for Community Development

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Exploratory Community-Based Action Research : Balancing Research and Action for Community Development
Abstract
The author points out that in 2002, in response to the difficulties experienced by Quebec's English-speaking communities, the Community Health and Social Services Network (CHSSN) was founded. The aims of CHSSN are to support English-speaking communities in their efforts to redress health status inequalities and promote community vitality, and to support communities in their efforts to develop community infrastructures and build strategic relationships and partnerships within the provincial health and social services system. The author points out that CHSSN helped create eighteen regional networks (circa 2012) throughout the province. In the Montreal region there are: the African Canadian Development & Prevention Network (ACDPN), East Island Network for English-Language Services (REISA), Catholic Community Services (CCS) and Youth and Parents AGAPE Association (in Laval). In other regions of the province there are: 4 Korners (Laurentians), Lower North Shore Coalition for Health (LNSCH), Committee for Anglophone Social Action (CASA, Gaspé Coast), Magdalen Islands Network for Anglophones (MINA), Outaouais Health and Social Services Network (OHSSN), Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence, Jeffery Hale Community Partners (Quebec City area), Megantic English-Speaking Community Development Corporation (MCDC), Neighbours Regional Association of Rouyn-Noranda, North Shore Community Association (NSCA), Townshippers’ Association (Estrie and Montérégie regions), Vision Gaspé Percé Now (tip of Gaspé Coast), and Vaudreuil-Soulanges. The author outlines a project, established in 2009, in six English-speaking communities, to develop knowledge of English-speaking communities in Quebec (research); to develop tools for mobilizing English-speaking communities in Quebec (knowledge transfer); and to support English-speaking communities in implementing a community development approach (training and support).
Publication
Journal of Eastern Townships Studies / Revue d'études des Cantons-de-l'Est
Volume
No. 38
Pages
69-78
Date
Spring 2012
Language
en
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Citation
Richardson, Mary. “Exploratory Community-Based Action Research : Balancing Research and Action for Community Development.” Journal of Eastern Townships Studies / Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est No. 38 (Spring 2012): 69–78. http://www.etrc.ca/journal/jets-archive/.
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