CCA – Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together
Resilience
Academic journal about the advancement of the Connected Community Approach (CCA), helping it build a resilience before, during, and after a crisis between communities. CCA is a practical framework for centering a community, and offers opportunities to bring together the best of community based planning and action.
Neighbourhood Trust Report
Grassroots Leaders
A reflection report on the imperfect strategies for supporting resident-led and grassroots projects. Has a personal story from Lynn who talked about her difficult upbringing and her connection with Neighbourhood Trust, and how Neighbourhood Trust supported her.
Sowing the Seeds for Climate Action in Communities
Climate Action
Learning guide for resident engagements using connected community approach. Coproduced by the Toronto Environmental Alliance and Centre for Connected Communities. Highlights the importance of residential climate engagement. Has the 10 Keys Purpose Statements.
Working with Systems Level Players Tip Sheet
Work at Multiple Scales
Slidedeck that focuses on how Connected Community Approach focuses on designing collaborative initiatives, and helps identifies potential systems, ensuring benefits for marginalized communities.
C3 – Community Centred Resilience Definitions
Work at Multiple Scales
Short Slidedeck that defines Community Centered resilience and the difference between different communities.
10 Keys Toolkit Working at Multiple Scales
Work at Multiple Scales
Toolkit that explains how the Connected Community Approach (CCA) recognizes that systems level decision making should not be made in isolation or be burdened onto residents, grassroots groups and service providers.
10 Keys for Engaging Grassroots Leaders
Work at Multiple Scales
Toolkit that explains the details of the 10 Keys for engaging grassroots leaders.
Using CCA to Disrupt White Supremacist Culture
Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing
A Table that highlights the Connected Community Approach (CCA) leveraging to create new developments that can dismantle the structures and systems that allow white supremacy to thrive.
Sample Anti-Racism Action Plan
Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing
Slidedeck with tables that helps design an anti-racism action plan for a community. Steps are learning, behaviour change, actions.
Anti-Black Racism Glossary
Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing
Table that highlights the the importance of the use of language to make the East Scarborough Storefront accessible to all staff and community. This document is also used as a reflection to dig deeper in the behaviour of anti-black racism.
10 Keys Toolkit Prioritizing Equity and Power Sharing
Prioritize Equity and Power Sharing
A Toolkit that explains the need to create conditions for community building that shares power and engages in equitable processes. Needs to step away from how current communities are build upon colonial and white supremacist constructs.
10 Keys Toolkit Making Community Building Visual
Make Community Building Visual
A Toolkit that highlights the key purposes of making Community building visual. Data needs to be shared, but is overwhelming, so data and information needs to be made more compelling by creating them to be more visual and accessible.
Storefront Playbook 2024-2026
Let Values Lead
Booklet for East Scarborough Storefront for 2024 - 2026, describes the purpose, values, commitments, and priorities for East Scarborough Storefront.