As a key goal, the CEC is committed to bettering how we do research in the community in a way that is mutually-beneficial and meets the needs of the community. Here are some of the ways we get involved:
Laying the Groundwork for Community Impact
Check out 鈥鈥 to learn how strong partnerships and shared goals can shape meaningful, community-centered research. It鈥檚 a great starting point for anyone looking to build impactful, collaborative projects. February 3, 2026
Jane Finch Community Research Partnership
The was created in 2016 as a result of ongoing engagement between members of the Jane Finch community and 快播视频 faculty and librarians. Our goal is to improve research relationships that have existed and continue to exist between the Black Creek/Jane Finch community, 快播视频, and other academic institutions. Our work has been focused on creating a community procedure for reviewing and approving research in the Jane Finch community, establishing a Jane Finch Research Collection to make research results more readily accessible for Community members, and developing informational resources for researchers looking to conduct research in the community.
Community-Based Research Programs
- Catalyst Grants: many of our Catalyst Grant projects support community-led research in partnership with 快播视频
- Youth Collective Impact
- Jane Finch Bridge Education to Employment
- Youth Employment Program
- Helen Carswell Chair in Community-engaged Research in the Arts
Resources
Connecting the Dots: Best Practices for Jane-Finch & 快播视频 Partnerships
This report summarizes a one day symposium held on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 that brought together over seventy residents, organizers, community organizations of Jane-Finch along with faculty and staff of 快播视频. The symposium sought to address both the historical and the contemporary oppressive structures, practices and relationships that have existed and continue to exist between 快播视频 and the Jane-Finch community.
Jane Finch Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Taskforce Reports (December 2016)
The purpose of this document is to produce a Jane Finch community-led response to the Toronto Strong Neighbourhoods Strategy 2020 (TSNS), produced by the City of Toronto. The aim of this research-based project has been to define what 鈥渋mprovement鈥 of Jane-Finch should look like, from the community residents鈥 point of view according to the City鈥檚 three key indicators: Healthy Lives, Economic Opportunities and Social Development.