Community Development Framework
The Community Development Framework (CDF) is a new way of coordinating municipal and community services. It brings together funders, community organizations, residents, researchers and city services to share information and leverage resources and community strengths in order to address needs in neighbourhoods. The goals of the framework include:
- Increase neighbourhood capacity to enact positive change (includes collective efficacy and resources)
- Improved planning and service delivery to achieve neighbourhood defined goals by increasing collaboration and coordination between and within city services, community agencies and their partners and residents
- Improve social determinant of health in neighbourhoods
- Increase neighbourhood safety and perceptions of safety
- Promote sustainability of positive change at the neighbourhood and systems levels
It all starts at the neighbourhood level where residents, together with community partners, identify the strengths and gaps in their neighbourhoods and create action plans to address those gaps. Community Health and Resource Centres then connect what is occurring in the neighbourhood to the systems level where municipal, resource and knowledge transfer supports are available. These three tables operate collaboratively to build a system of supports for the grassroots neighbourhood initiatives.
The following four neighbourhoods have been prioritized for the beginning of CDF implementation (listed in alphabetical order):
- Bayshore
- Carlington
- Overbrook-McArthur
- West Centretown
Other neighbourhoods will be phased in to implement the CDF approach over time.
For more information visit: http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/cdf/index_en.html.
