Community Development

Community Development

Championing Equity Through Community Development

The Coalition of Community Health and Resource Centres (CHRCs) partners with residents to foster equity and transformative systems change. We do this by working together: residents, community organizations and City services using community development as mechanism for this change.

CHRCs aim to shift power to support communities experiencing inequity, ensuring their voices are central to our efforts..

Together we build on neighborhood strengths, and work to address inequities. Community members lead every stage, from issue selection to implementation. 

We commit to meaningful resident involvement in service co-design and decision-making, making our initiatives community-driven. 

Advocacy

As a coalition of multi-service organizations across rural, urban, and suburban communities, CHRCs advocate for equity, prevention, and community care. 

Driving Community Transformation

We are guided by community-driven, collaborative, collective approaches, the most effective way to achieve change.

Community Development in Action

The best people to help us understand and address the challenges that are faced in Ottawa’s communities are those being impacted, and the partners working directly with them.

The Coalition of CHRCs partners with residents, with the Community Development Framework and others, to ensures that residents are meaningfully involved in shaping the decisions that
affect their lives.

See Our Community Development in Action