Community-University Partnership

04/08/2022

Culture influences every dimension of the evaluation process and its stakeholders. This is why evaluations need to be culturally responsive to be meaningful and valid. Taking an equity, diversity, inclusion, and indigeneity lens is key to ensure recognition, accurate interpretation, and use of evaluations.

Join the Evaluation Capacity Network and its expert panelists on Monday, May 16 from 12 - 1pm MDT as they share their knowledge and experience with culturally responsive evaluation and how to take an EDII lens in evaluation practice. Everyone is welcome!

03/29/2022

Reminder: UEval - Evaluation in the Community Context, available this Spring semester (May 30 - June 3, 2022), is still accepting case study submissions. If you are interested in building evaluation capacity for your organization, program, or initiative, please submit a case study by April 12, 2022, at 5:00 pm MST.

For more information, don't hesitate to get in touch with [email protected]

To submit a case study, please fill out this form:
https://forms.gle/fHk46Rs7oFsn9Lbf6

03/03/2022

It is our great pleasure to announce that UEval - Evaluation in the Community Context will be available this Spring semester (May 30 - June 3, 2022).

For more information, please contact [email protected]
To submit a case study, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/fHk46Rs7oFsn9Lbf6
Deadline to submit a case study: April 12, 2022, 5:00 pm MST

12/02/2021

The Multicultural Health Brokers Coop are very excited to share that Khair for All has launched!

Khair for All is an affordable food culturally relevant food box. Please note that everyone is welcome to purchase and benefit from our affordable, fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables during this time where grocery costs continue to rise. While Khair for All is intended to help us to scale down the Grocery Run and support more food insecure community members across Edmonton more broadly, Khair for All is open for the general public to benefit from as well to help us sustain the social enterprise model.

For more information please visit https://www.facebook.com/MCHBKhairforAll

06/08/2021

If (1) your first language is NOT english and (2) your partner speaks a mother tongue that is different from yours and (3) you have a child under 19 years of age, the following research project may be of interest to you!

The purpose of this study is to learn about how mixed language families in Alberta use their languages in daily life and participation involves an online interview via Zoom which will last 30-60 minutes.

As a small token of appreciation, participants will be offered a $10 digital gift card to be sent electronically after completion of each component of the study (interview: $10; observations: $10; survey: $10).

If you are interested in learning more about this study, please contact Silvia Bégin at [email protected], or Dr. Guardado at [email protected].

06/08/2021

The made-in-Edmonton Grocery Run, led by Multicultural Health Brokers Co-op, provides 550 newcomer and refugee families (~3025 individuals) with weekly essential grocery hampers.

The Grocery Run operates in partnership with the Edmonton Food Bank, Leftovers Edmonton and CUP (Community University Partnership at the University of Alberta) to provide hampers that focus on fruits, vegetables and culturally appropriate pantry essentials.

Help support Grocery Run by sharing this post and by donating here to their fundraiser: http://gf.me/u/zrvaw9

04/26/2021

Join CUP on May 19, 2021, for the next Issues and Impacts presentation where we discuss the transformation of systems, the lens with which to evaluate transformation, and the capacity needed to support the learning process. As part of the Community-University Partnership Issues and Impacts Series, we have invited evaluation field experts, Dr. Michael Quinn-Patton and Mark Cabaj, to discuss how to transform the way we track progress, generate insights, and continually develop and adapt our efforts.

Learn more and register:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/transformation-what-it-is-why-it-matters-how-to-evaluate-it-registration-151909959779

On June 2, 2021, this session will be followed up with a local partnership talk featuring the Evaluation Capacity Network, focusing on evaluation in the social sector.

Learn more and register:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/transforming-evaluation-capacity-in-the-social-serving-sector-registration-151911646825

Learn more about our partnership, collaborative evaluation projects, and how you can get connected to capacity building opportunities

03/29/2021

Are you a graduate student who is interested in community-engaged evaluation? Or a community organization needing evaluation support?

Registration is NOW OPEN for UEval! This is an experiential one-week learning opportunity, where students will:

· Interactively explore evaluation theory with community stakeholders

· Develop evaluative responses to community-informed issues

LIMITED SPACES AVAILABLE! For more information, visit: https://www.evaluationcapacitynetwork.com/ueval

If your community organization is in need of an evaluation plan, submit a case study here: https://forms.gle/qAZKWKjWQMLmGVK69

Please direct all inquiries to: [email protected]

03/02/2021

CUP is pleased to share it's 2017-2019 Evaluation Report and summary video!

The full report can be found here:https://www.ualberta.ca/community-university-partnership/media-library/community-university-partnership/about-us/cup-evaluation-2017-2019.pdf

The summary video can be found here: https://youtu.be/_BzJyx_ujVU

In 2017, as part of CUP strategic plan, we began an evaluation journey to help us understand the factors that influence our ability to accomplish our mission of nurturing environments where evidence contributes to effective practices, programs, and policies. The report and video highlight some of the key learnings from this journey and how the learning is shaping and informing our work as we move forwards.

We hope these lessons and these processes inform your own internal evaluations!

02/01/2021

To celebrate 20 years of the Community University Partnership (CUP), we are hosting the Issues and Impacts Series. This series engages field experts and local research partnerships in discussions of issues relevant to the wellbeing of children, youth and families. Field experts and local researchers will discuss topics such as community-based participatory research (CBPR) as a tool for policy change, models of integrated early learning and care, community-driven and culturally responsive evaluation, and international poverty elimination collaboratives.
In February 2021, we explore child care systems and quality in two presentations listed below.
FIELD EXPERT TALK: Early Learning and Child Care – a National System for Canada
SPEAKER: Kathleen Flanagan, Child and Family Policy / Early Childhood Education and Care Specialist, Kathleen Flanagan and Associates, Inc.
DATE: February 24, 2020
TIME: 12:00PM - 1:00PM MST
To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/early-learning-and-child-care-a-national-system-for-canada-tickets-129620182455
Local Partnership Talk: Local Matters: Options for improving early learning and care in Edmonton
LOCAL PARTNERSHIP: Dr. Robert Buschmann and the Edmonton Council for Early Learning and Care (ECELC)
DATE: March 10, 2021
TIME: 12:00PM - 1:00PM MST
To register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/local-matters-options-for-improving-early-learning-and-care-in-edmonton-tickets-138793538209

Local Matters: Options for improving early learning and care in Edmonton

12/04/2020

CUP has released it's 20th Annual Report!

This report is a celebration of CUP's 20th anniversary and walks through 20 years of partnerships, projects, and impacts. In its development, we asked past and present research teams to discuss the evolution of research partnerships, lessons learned, and principles that informed decision making and action.

Read the report here:https://www.ualberta.ca/community-university-partnership/media-library/community-university-partnership/resources/annual-reports/2019-2020-annual-report.pdf

12/02/2020

What do recent changes to child care subsidies mean for Alberta families?

CUP Research Associate Rob Buschmann and Research Assistant Jennifer Fischer-Summers recently co-authored a 1-page brief with researchers at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy on the child care subsidy changes in Alberta. The brief summarizes the results of a longer paper Rob and Jennifer did on behalf of the Edmonton Council for Early Learning and Care. Danielle Smith recently interviewed Rob about this paper on her radio show.

Listen to the interview here: https://omny.fm/shows/danielle-smith/are-the-changes-to-alberta-s-child-care-subsidy-en
Read the one pager here:https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FPT-AB-child-subsidy.pdf
Read the full ECELC paper here: https://www.ecelc.ca/publications-archive/rzxkjnn83rlps2rvf7riw5fzwxocov-fdw8b

Provides an introduction to child care subsidies in Alberta, outlines and analyzes some of the recent changes to subsidies, provides suggestions for improving the subsidy system and the general affordability of early learning and care in Alberta, and concludes by providing some perspective on the ro