Building Healthy Northern Communities Through Strengthening Capacity

This study examines and evaluates the effects of one-time funding on capacity building of health and social welfare organizations in a remote and northern section of British Columbia Canada. The Province of British Columbia awarded a two million dollar grant (Canadian) to the University of Northern...

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Main Authors: Glen Schmidt, Dawn Hemingway, Gerard Bellefeuille
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Stavanger 2012-04-01
Series:Journal of Comparative Social Work
Online Access:https://journals.uis.no/index.php/JCSW/article/view/79
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spelling doaj-63341884b1fe43e688a277ff1b0f0d1d2020-11-24T21:08:15ZengUniversity of StavangerJournal of Comparative Social Work0809-99362012-04-0171365010.31265/jcsw.v7i1.7979Building Healthy Northern Communities Through Strengthening CapacityGlen SchmidtDawn HemingwayGerard BellefeuilleThis study examines and evaluates the effects of one-time funding on capacity building of health and social welfare organizations in a remote and northern section of British Columbia Canada. The Province of British Columbia awarded a two million dollar grant (Canadian) to the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Organizations applied for funds through a competitive process that was managed by the School of Social Work at UNBC. Twenty-five different community organizations and agencies received funding for a period of eighteen months. The organizations and agencies delivered a range of services and activities located in remote First Nations communities as well as the natural resource-based single industry towns of northern BC.https://journals.uis.no/index.php/JCSW/article/view/79
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description This study examines and evaluates the effects of one-time funding on capacity building of health and social welfare organizations in a remote and northern section of British Columbia Canada. The Province of British Columbia awarded a two million dollar grant (Canadian) to the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC). Organizations applied for funds through a competitive process that was managed by the School of Social Work at UNBC. Twenty-five different community organizations and agencies received funding for a period of eighteen months. The organizations and agencies delivered a range of services and activities located in remote First Nations communities as well as the natural resource-based single industry towns of northern BC.
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