FLOCK is an innovative platform for women that bridges self-employment coaching and skills training to local social services and community involvement. \u00a0The program is delivered out of a Community Hub successfully engaging vulnerable women and families in a City of Toronto Neighbourhood Improvement Area where 25% of lone-parent households are predominantly female-headed. \u00a0The FLOCK project also aims to demonstrate ways a Community Hub can help anchor an inclusive neighbourhood economy through supporting micro-enterprises, aligning place-based investment strategies, building local economic networks and integrating wraparound services for vulnerable women. \u00a0The evaluation aims to assess the causal impact of the program using a mixed-methods strategy that combines longitudinal panel data with qualitative longitudinal data. \u00a0The evaluation will explore if the changes in outcomes were perhaps a function of the background characteristics of the individuals rather than the causal impact of the program; and collect multiple measures on intended outcomes, thus better ensuring that the causal relationship will hold in other settings for similar outcomes.<\/p>\n
Local Poverty Reduction Fund, Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat<\/p>\n
February 2017-December 2018<\/p>\n
Margaret\u2019s drop-in is a community hub offering a non-judgmental and safe space where individuals can access a variety of services, including: daily meals, crisis beds, clothing, nursing care, mental health and justice workers, and women and senior\u2019s programming. The drop-in centre employs a low barrier philosophy to work with vulnerable clients who may otherwise be turned away by traditional service providers, works with the drivers of marginalization to meet clients where they are through an anti-oppressive framework, and also respects autonomy and personal freedom.<\/p>\n
The evaluation of Margaret\u2019s Toronto East Drop-In Centre is a realist impact evaluation, which aims to examine outcomes attributed to Margaret\u2019s drop-in centre. \u00a0The evaluation uses a realist evaluation framework, which focuses on\u00a0\u201cwhat works, for whom, in what respects, to what extent, in what contexts, and how?\u201d<\/p>\n
Local Poverty Reduction Fund, Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat<\/p>\n
February 2016-December 2017<\/p>\n
TNO\u2019s CERC is a Centre of Excellence for emerging newcomer women entrepreneurs; it is a knowledge centre that leverages peer mentoring, provides entrepreneurial training and resources through partnerships, infrastructure support and enhanced links to markets beyond the immediate community to increase women\u2019s capacities and sales.\u00a0 The evaluation of TNO\u2019s CERC is an example of a realist impact evaluation. \u00a0We explore impacts for specific individual contexts and also explore the differential mechanisms by which the program can work. \u00a0Realist evaluation explores \u201cwhat works for whom and under what conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local Poverty Reduction Fund, Ontario Treasury Board Secretariat<\/p>\n
February 2016-December 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poverty Reduction Fund Working Women Community Centre\u2019s FLOCK FLOCK is an innovative platform for women that bridges self-employment coaching and skills training to local social services and community involvement. \u00a0The program is delivered out of a Community Hub successfully engaging vulnerable women and families in a City of Toronto Neighbourhood Improvement Area where 25% of … <\/p>\n