Ottawa Neighbourhoods Social Capital Forum (ONSCF)

In 2011, the Ottawa Neighbourhoods Social Capital Forum was able to complete the foundational work for building social capital in priority neighbourhoods in Ottawa.

United Way convened the Ottawa Neighbourhoods Social Capital Forum in February 2011 to address the community priority issue of building safe and vibrant neighbourhoods through the approach of building social capital.

The Forum is comprised of members from
Social Planning Council,
the City of Ottawa,
Ottawa Neighbourhood Study,
Ottawa Community Housing,
Ottawa Police,
the Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres,
OCISO {Note: pronounced as O see so},
the coalition of community developers,
Crime Prevention Ottawa,
the Coalition of Community Houses and other stakeholders and volunteers.

In 2011, four Community Health and Resource Centres were able to identify priority neighbourhoods in Western Ottawa, Sandy Hill, Lower Town and Pinecrest Queensway.

The Forum provides research, evaluation and capacity building support to building social and physical assets in the identified priority neighbourhoods.

In 2011, the key task before the volunteer group was to identify key indicators and develop tools and templates for preparing a baseline for measuring progress on building social capital in priority neighbourhoods.

For details on why place matters, please refer to: http://blip.tv/nclb-ottawa/an-introduction-to-strong-neighbourhoods-approach-...

Category:

Education

Tags:

• social capital
• strong neighbourhoods
• why place matters
• crime prevention ottawa
• united way ottawa
• social assets
• physical assets
• community development
• NCLB
• CDF
• Abid Jan