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Neighbourhood Houses in Metro Vancouver Community Forum 2013 Introduction • First systematic study of NHs in Canada • Four years, collaborative, funded by SSHRC • Research questions: – “How do neighbourhood houses, as place-based, multi-service, community-governed, non-profit organizations, affect social equity, collective efficacy, and inclusion, based on the cases of Metro Vancouver?” What have we Completed so far? • Community Resource Mapping Workshop – Participating NH, N=15, >75 people • Network source Mapping Interviews – Participating NH, N=13, >55 people • Clearing House Survey – Participating NH, N=15 • Skills Learning Workshop – Two workshops on mapping Preliminary Findings Community Resource Mapping • Emerging Clusters of Ideas – Defining boundary: • Users vs. resources • Fixed vs. flexible and permeable – Accessibility (barriers; NHs’ role) • • • • Physical: cluster and uneven; outreach/extension Economic: cost; cheap and free Cultural: language and knowledge; multilingual, outreach Institutional: fragmented and knowledge; connecting/referring, use of external resources – Challenges & lack of connection • Competing interest • Funding program policies – can and cannot do • Meeting emerging needs Community Resource Mapping 2 • Emerging Clusters of Ideas 2 – Defining mandates: • Having specific mandates for vulnerable population in the community particularly seniors • Strategies: reactionary, proactive and consistent – Multi-roles of NH as resource in the community • • • • • • Connector (including referring) Meeting place Service providers (particularly the first and the last resort) Collaborators Advocator for community change Enabler (expertise sharing and training) – Partnerships define and are defined by the NH’s role • A response to Structural/Systemic Accessibility • Strengthening relationships • Resource and information exchange (volunteers, expertise) Clearing House Survey 1 1. Average opening hours per week: 51.2 hour • Evening hours” 12.5 (also in need) 2. Top five ethnic groups among service users • Chinese (N=14), Southeast Asian & Latin American (N=9), Caucasian (N=7), South Asian (N=6), 3. Funding sources: • • • • (Total funding in 2012-2013: $37,346,245) Top: Provincial funding, >$15,000,000, 182 programs Second: Fee, >10,000,000, 135 programs Municipal funding: <3,000,000, 133 programs Over half of the funding are in renewable <3 yr term Clearing House Survey 2 4. Programs: 83% use of volunteers – Children (158), Family (152), Seniors (137) – Served 209,864 people in 2012-2013 Nature of Program Activities 250 236 Number of Programs 200 184 150 165 166 119 100 113 105 76 50 49 0 Direct Service Information and Referral Recreational Socioocultural Community Development Advocacy Collaborative Services Food Related Others Clearing House Survey 3 5. Volunteers: – >3,672 registered, >15,000 hrs/nh/yr (8.2 FTE), – 70% Female, 55% adults – Language: Chinese (N=12), Spanish (N=11), Korean (N=7), Vietnamese & Tagalog (N=6) 6. Board Members: Return rate = 81%, N=128 – Female 65%, 25-50 years old = 58% – 24 languages (English N=15; French N=9; Spanish N=8; Chinese N=5; Hindi N=4) – 27% immigrant background – 35% former or existing service users, most live or work within the neighbourhood – 54% <3 years Clearing House Survey 4 7. Staff (Total Return N=745, 75.7%) – 65% Female; Age: 25-60, 82% – Language: N=53, (English & Chinese N=15, French N=14, Hindi & Spanish N=11) – 50% Immigrant background – Service users: 60%, Current/former Residents: 54% – 85% college diploma or above • Early childhood education (22.8%), Social service related (21.5%), Children and youth service (16.5%), Social work (5.2%) – Employment status: 48% ≥35 hrs/wk, 15.8% managerial level What are in progress? • Archival Study (Dr. Eleanor Stebner) • Government-NHs Relationship (Dr. Oliver Schmidtke) • Conceptualizing BWIN – Focus groups, N=3, individual interviews, N=10 • NH as Community Resources – Focus groups, N=18, (Community Partners and Service Users) • Service User Survey • Oral History Six-Month Timeline Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Archival Study >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dr. Stebner Mainly reviewing archives G-NH Relation >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dr. Schmidtke Ind interviews BWIN >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gojjam Limenihe FGs, interviews NH as Com Res >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jenny Francis 18 FGs (CP and SU) Service User Survey >>>>>>>>> Dr. Lauer & Maya Reisz N=600 This will the MOST BUSIEST period of data collection. WE NEED YOUR HELP!!!!! For More Information of the Findings and the Project, Please Visit Our Website: www.nhvproject.ca Or Contact Dr. Miu Chung Yan at [email protected].