LEAD (Leadership Engagement, Action and Development)

• Combines innovative leadership training and community action through civic participation
• Promotes cross-cultural collaboration among ethno-cultural leaders around common issues
• Themes include Pathways to Leadership, Community Presentations, Communication, Community Action Planning, Public Policy Analysis, Working with Government

BBEC (Building Bridges with Ethno-cultural Communities)

• Provides information, toolkits and resources to ethno-cultural communities relevant to services and resources available for newcomers
• Promotes collaboration between ethno-cultural communities, service providers and resources
• Conducts training, field trips, community resource fairs and community forums

Sustaining e-CARD (Ethnocultural Community Action on Racial Discrimination)

• Raises awareness and promotes community action to address racial discrimination
• Informs and engages ethno-cultural communities to respond to issues
• Collects stories, conducts field trips, community forums and focus groups
• Organizes, trains and develops toolkits for community action teams

CEEC (Connecting Elders from Ethno-Cultural Communities)

• Trains Elder Brokers to connect immigrant seniors with resources and services to increase accessibility of mainstream services through a reduction of cultural barriers.

SHARE (Sustaining Healthy & Awesome Relationships)

• Prevention initiative that seeks to promote alternative strategies to address the systemic, structural and root causes of domestic violence through collaboration.

Aim High (Research, Policy & Education)

• Conducts research and policy work in collaboration with community and stakeholders to study how ECCC priority issues are affecting ethno-cultural communities.
• Educates ECCC members about how policy decisions are made and engages them meaningfully in policy discussions, consultations and debate.

Ethno-cultural Youth Development

• Youth-to-youth mentorship
• Young leaders participate in policy dialogues and issue analysis

PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH

Somali CAR (Community Assessment Report)

• This action research project focuses on the strengths and needs of the community.
• Informs the development of concrete action plans so that the Somali community feels a sense of belonging and is empowered to participate fully and equally in Calgary.

Every Vote Counts

• Identifies factors that make immigrants vote or not vote
• Conducts Town Hall meetings  and Community Forums to increase immigrant voter awareness and participation

Community Forums and Dialogues with Government

• Conducts community dialogues with public servants and  elected representatives in various levels of government

Conversations Focusing on Creating More Welcoming Communities and Workplaces

• Conversations and community dialogues with employers, businesses and citizens

Ethnic Media Bureau

• Ethnic media collaborating with communities to raise public awareness of issues impacting ethno-cultural communities