Stratégies de survie et d’identité : les dynamiques culturelles dans un projet d’intervention en prévention communautaire

Le projet « Partir d'un bon pas vers un avenir meilleur », conçu et mis sur pied à Sudbury, offre l'exemple d'un travail de collaboration entre la communauté minoritaire franco-ontarienne et d'autres communautés culturelles, axé sur le respect des différences, l'autonomie et la valorisation de la culture. Ce texte présente trois étapes clés du processus de développement de ce projet, et analyse les tensions qui ont été soulevées et qui ont contribué à la définition de la structure actuelle du projet

Activist Research Contributions To Shutting Down A Welfare Snitch Line

An approach to activist research is presented, illustrated, and evaluated using three criteria. Did the research promote change, help participants learn, and theorize change processes?Présentation, démonstration et évaluation d'une approche de recherche activiste selon trois critères. La recherche a-t-elle encouragé des changements, aidé les participants/tes à apprendre et a-t-elle favorisé l'émission de théories concemant les processus de changement

Implementing Principles: An Alternative Community Organization for Children

Introduction The purpose of this article is to describe the principles that guided the development of a community organization serving children. The following is a brief description of the context for the organization. Six categories of principles are described; these principles, expressed as objectives, are as follows: To promote active participation of members; To create egalitarian work relationships; To nourish dailiness; To care for the caregivers; To expand the capacity to act powerfull..

Valuing Unpaid Work in the Third Sector: The Case of Community Resources Centres

Issues of unpaid work in poor communities are examined. Data from community centres are used to analyze debates which underlie differing approaches to valuing unpaid work and the particular form it takes when called "volunteering." Monetary valuations draw on market principles; others are embedded in the experiences of volunteers. Differences between volunteers, funders, and program planners arise from the differing social locations these parties occupy in the mixed economy of welfare that now typifies Canadian social policy. Policy debates about volunteers need to be sharpened by casting them within the larger framework of unpaid work and citizenship.