The Campbell Collaboration (C2) helps people make well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and disseminating systematic reviews in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.
The Program Directory is a searchable database of evidence-based, federally-funded youth programs. You can search for programs by risk factor, protective factor, or keyword.
NREPP is a searchable online registry of more than 170 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.
The PPN site features summaries of programs and practices that are proven to improve outcomes for children. All programs have been screened for quality and to ensure that they have evidence of positive effects.
Produced by the Cochrane Collaboration, provides systematic reviews of the effects of health care. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews has a limited number of concurrent users. If you cannot initially access the database, please keep trying and you will access it
Community Assets (Services) Databases
Community Information databases provide listings of community service organizations, including agencies, non-profits and government services. Searchable by topic, such as homelessness, or by service provider name.
The regional contact centre for Central East Ontario contributing to 211Ontario. "Search by County" to find additional social services in your area, e.g. Simcoe County.
Campaign 2000 is a cross-Canada public education movement to build Canadian awareness and support for the 1989 all-party House of Commons resolution to end child poverty in Canada by the year 2000. Campaign 2000 began in 1991 out of concern about the lack of government progress in addressing child poverty.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social, economic and environmental justice.
Maytree is a social policy organization that supports and promotes systemic changes that will alleviate poverty. They use a human rights approach and work to strengthen communities. Check out their annual Welfare in Canada report.
The Vanier Institute of the Family seeks to create awareness of, and to provide leadership on, the importance and strengths of families in Canada and the challenges they face in all of their structural, demographic, economic, cultural and social diversity.
Barrie Area Native Advisory Circle (BANAC) collectively serves as a regional social planning organization based upon the concepts of life long learning, self determination, and community participation
The Child, Youth and Family Services Coalition is a countywide alliance of organizations providing services to children, youth and their families in Simcoe County
Established in December 1998, The Simcoe County Alliance to End Homelessness is a coalition of over 70 community stakeholders and front line workers who are committed to developing and implementing strategies that will eliminate homelessness.
Their mission is " to create innovative solutions to meet community challenges and build strong, equitable and sustainable communities through education, engagement and collaboration". Note: the coalition was closed in 2019. This page archives some of the coalition's history.
Working in Canada is the Government of Canada's leading source for jobs and labour market information. It offers users free occupational and career information such as job opportunities, educational requirements, main duties, wage rates and salaries, current employment trends, and outlooks
