Category: Domestic Violence
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Discovery House
Discovery House Formative Evaluation (1992 – 1993) Discovery House provides safe shelter and professional support to abused women and their children. The formative evaluation process was based on a variety of individual, small group and large group meetings with staff as well as a thorough literature review. The evaluation culminated in a document that described…
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Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (ACWS)
Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (ACWS) Outreach Follow-Up Program Evaluation (1999 – 2000) The mission of the program is to help women and children begin to re-establish their independence by providing accessible housing, crisis intervention, advocating and referring within the community, practical and group support, creating social opportunities and public education. The researcher assisted the program…
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Southwest Crisis Services Safe Shelter
Southwest Crisis Services Safe Shelter Capacity and Utilization Review (August 2010 – December 2011) The review was intended to assist the SWCS Board of Directors with their strategic planning processes to define the overall direction for the agency and to allocate resources to those directions over a long-term period. The review focused on the SWCS…
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Bow Valley
Bow Valley Needs Assessment (September 2015 – February 2016) The project was aimed at assessing the needs of the Bow Valley community to establish secure shelter, transition housing and support services for women and children who are escaping domestic violence. The study components included description of the Bow Valley area, its population, needs and services;…
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United Way
United Way Enhancing Support for Aboriginal Youth to Complete School Action Plan (February – July 2010) The Enhancing Support for Aboriginal Youth to Complete School Initiative represents a recent phase of the United Way’s Aboriginal Youth and Education Strategy. The initiative has two overall goals: 1) Aboriginal children and youth in Calgary stay in school…
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Sonshine Community Services
Sonshine Community Services Evaluation Framework (September 2019 – Present) Sonshine Community Services is a non-for-profit social service agency that exists to help women and children fleeing domestic violence transform their lives. Sonshine Centre works to create a community where women and children live safely in healthy families. It is now engaged in a process of…
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City of Airdrie
City of Airdrie Domestic Violence Environmental Scan (April 2016 – April 2017) The project is an environment scan that helped identify the current programs, services, awareness, gaps and future needs as they relate to domestic violence within the City of Airdrie. A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis developed through community consultation was the…
Synergy Research Group 