Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA) Series: Recent submissions
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Shared Responsibility: Building Healthy Communities in Winnipeg's North End
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of inner-city residents and service providers and represent their ideas about building healthy communities. The term “inner city” is often associated with a variety ... -
Housing for Assisted Living in Inner-City Winnipeg: A Social Analysis of Housing Options for People with Disabilities
People with disabilities who have complex health and housing needs have limited housing options. Younger adults with disabilities, for example, are inappropriately placed in personal care homes with seniors when the cost ... -
Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance - Summer Institute, Course Outline: "What Makes a Good Urban Neighbourhood"
This is the outline for a course given as part of the 2005 WIRA Summer Institute. Course content is organized around a number of broad thematic areas related to neighbourhood studies. Themes include: defining the inner ... -
Cooperative Business Development: Winnipeg Pilot Project Summative Evaluation Report
This report is an evaluation of the Cooperative Business Development: Winnipeg Pilot Project. The primary goal of the Project was to help facilitate the evolution of co-operative businesses, including creation, expansion, ... -
Planning [E]mergence: The Convergence of Theory and Practice Through the Collaborative Efforts of the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance
An evaluation of an innovative collaborative urban research organization that builds partnerships between academics, researchers, and communities. This case study investigates the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance ... -
Voices from the Margins: Experiences of Street-Involved Youth In Winnipeg
In this study we sought to hear the voices of street-involved youth. We wanted to give them a forum through which to tell their stories. We wanted to know: 1) How they came to be involved with the street? 2) What their ... -
What Makes a Good Urban Neighbourhood, Final Report
The Summer Institute is the main component of WIRA’s educational mandate, and targets university students and community practitioners. It builds knowledge and capacity at the community level and adopts a practical, hands-on ... -
Out of the Long Dark Hallway: Voices From Winnipeg’s Rooming Houses
The purpose of this study is to critically examine rooming houses from a community-based “people and place” perspective. This approach includes surveys, in-depth interviews and a workshop. The instruments used in the study ... -
Rooming House: Tenant-Landlord and Community Cooperation, Spence Neighbourhood
(Institute of Urban Studies, 2005-03-01)This project examined the potential for adapting the existing West Broadway TLC principles and practices to the rooming house stock in the Spence neighbourhood. -
Lessons in Collaboration
This document contains notes used in a presentation by Tom Carter and Anita Friesen, Research Liaison Director and Community Liaison Director of the Winnipeg Inner-City Research Alliance (WIRA), respectively on the ocassion ... -
Greening the Inner city: Eco-Friendly Community Development
The second WIRA Summer Institute - Greening the Inner City: Eco-friendly Community Development – was held from June 2nd to 7th 2003. The WIRA Summer Institute is designed with a number of objectives in mind. The intention ... -
The Rise of the Fringe Financial Services in Winnipeg's North End: Client Experiences, Firm Legitimacy and Community-Based Alternatives
This report documents research undertaken... to examine the rise of fringe financial services in Winnipeg's North End. Fringe financial services include a variety of financial services such as loans and cheque-cashing that ... -
The Winnipeg Street Youth Survival Guide
A guidebook of Winnipeg social services for youth. Includes information about: shelters, drop-in programs, food, employment, mental health, crisis support, counselling, sexual health and family planning, substance abuse, ... -
Finding Our Way Home: Housing Options in Inner-City Winnipeg for People with Disabilities Who Are Dying
This project encompassed three pertinent social issues: the lack of safe, affordable, available and accessible inner city Winnipeg housing; the lack of supports available for people living in the core area experiencing end ... -
WIRA Summer Institute: Internal Evaluation
This is an internal review of the June 2002 WIRA Summer Institute. The WIRA Summer Institute was designed with a number of objectives in mind. The intention was to create a unique, shared learning experience for university ... -
Beyond a Front Desk: The Residential Hotel as Home
This report is based on a comprehensive analysis of Winnipeg’s single room occupancy hotels. In developing and writing the report, an emphasis was placed on ensuring that the voices of SRO residents were heard and that ... -
Building Community Capacity in Winnipeg's Inner City: Exploring The Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations, Research Report
This report explores community development and adult education with inner city residents who sit on boards of directors of non-profit organizations - in particular licensed childcare facilities, women’s centers and family ... -
Building Community Capacity in Winnipeg's Inner City: Exploring The Learning and Resource Needs of Volunteer Boards of Directors in Non-Profit Organizations, Community Summary
This report explores community development and adult education with inner city residents who sit on boards of directors of non-profit organizations - in particular licensed childcare facilities, women’s centers and family ... -
Enhancing Cultural Capital: The Arts and Community Development in Winnipeg
(2005-09-17)This research highlights the contribution that community-based arts organizations are making in Winnipeg ‘s inner city. The project reveals that there is not only a wealth of artistic and cultural resources in the inner ... -
Aboriginal Education in Winnipeg Inner City High Schools
This study investigates "the educational circumstances of Aboriginal students in Winnipeg inner city high schools... Responses by Aboriginal people to our questions about their experiences in school reveal the existence ...
