Community - TCRC

COMMUNITY INITIATIVES

CRC has always operated out of a community development or self-help model. We have always worked to empower individuals and the community by various means. In our history, we have been involved in many projects that seek to help individuals discover their own innate power, their dignity and their skills.
Today we are involved in community development in these following ways:

Project Connect - working to improve and increase the stock of affordable housing in the form of rooming houses
Encouraging and supporting immigrant women's groups including:
- Regent Park Women and Family
Coordinate SUNDAY IN THE PARK, the largest annual festival in Regent Park where the community can interact in its multicultural-ness. This is a youth and family-focused event.
Asset Mapping Research Project
The Asset Mapping Research Project is an action research project which brings participants together locally to share their assets (skills, talents, gifts, abilities, interests, experiences, knowledge and dreams) and other resources in order to build individual and community capacity. Shelter residents and other marginally housed people are asked to express their assets (everyone has assets) to others in similar circumstances in their community. Asset-Based Community Development puts people's futures in their own hands by mapping and mobilizing their strengths.
Food Co-op
We operate a weekly fresh food market from April to November (run by local volunteers) where produce is available at inexpensive prices. We also continue to support the establishment of other markets in the community. In addition, we operate a fresh food delivery service that provides the same fresh inexpensive produce to local agencies with food programs.
Community Gardens
We coordinate 3 community garden sites where over 70 families in Regent Park grow produce (much of it culture-specific) for their own consumption. In addition, we partner with Regent Park Community Health Centre in their coordination of 4 community gardens serving an additional 120+ families throughout Regent Park. In endeavouring to serve these 200 families and others, we share resources, gardener gatherings and efforts to establish gardens more firmly in the community.

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	COMMUNITY INITIATIVES CRC has always operated out of a community development or self-help model. We have always worked to empower individuals and the community by various means. In our history, we have been involved in many projects that seek to help individuals discover their own innate power, their dignity and their skills. Today we are involved in community development in these following ways: Project Connect - working to improve and increase the stock of affordable housing in the form of rooming houses Encouraging and supporting immigrant women's groups including: - Regent Park Women and Family Coordinate SUNDAY IN THE PARK, the largest annual festival in Regent Park where the community can interact in its multicultural-ness. This is a youth and family-focused event. Asset Mapping Research Project The Asset Mapping Research Project is an action research project which brings participants together locally to share their assets (skills, talents, gifts, abilities, interests, experiences, knowledge and dreams) and other resources in order to build individual and community capacity. Shelter residents and other marginally housed people are asked to express their assets (everyone has assets) to others in similar circumstances in their community. Asset-Based Community Development puts people's futures in their own hands by mapping and mobilizing their strengths. Food Co-op We operate a weekly fresh food market from April to November (run by local volunteers) where produce is available at inexpensive prices. We also continue to support the establishment of other markets in the community. In addition, we operate a fresh food delivery service that provides the same fresh inexpensive produce to local agencies with food programs. Community Gardens We coordinate 3 community garden sites where over 70 families in Regent Park grow produce (much of it culture-specific) for their own consumption. In addition, we partner with Regent Park Community Health Centre in their coordination of 4 community gardens serving an additional 120+ families throughout Regent Park. In endeavouring to serve these 200 families and others, we share resources, gardener gatherings and efforts to establish gardens more firmly in the community.
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