5. Community Capacity Building:

How does an LHP/PR model build community capacity for ethnoracial minority and service-providing communities?

The MSCS project applied two approaches to the assessment of community capacity.

One approach was to document changes in the stages of multiple partnership development among all the MSCS partner organizations, according to the CCB model. The Community Capacity Building (CCB) approach (Moyer et al, 1999) was developed to describe four stages through which organizations move in the process of developing effective and sustainable working relationships, which are formed to address specific health promotion issues.

During the course of the MSCS project, several partners moved two or three, and some even four stages forward in the CCB model. As illustrated in Figure 36 and Table 61 below, many partners had reached Stage 4, Sustainability, in which there is a commitment to continue working relationships between organizations, and there is some integration of project activities into organizational structure, with the intent to maintain this over time. As can be seen, four other organizations became formally involved over the course of MSCS; three of these moved to Stage 4 in the CCB model.

Table 61 CCB stage reached     Stage 3 Stage 4 Type of organizations # AC meetings attended Leadership is assumed Working relationship is established Commitment to continue work past June 2003 Project is integrated into organizational structure Settlement and Newcomer services + + +/- One organization fully committed • OCISO 6 + + + Will continue involvement on staff time • CIC 2 + + - Ethnocultural community groups and organizations: + + + Two organizations fully committed • African Sol. Org. 2 + + + Interested in partnership • Latin American Women’s Congress 7 + + + Very committed, will continue to volunteered time City of Ottawa - Public Health 8 + + + Co-AC chair, fully committed to continue involvement; provided funds for Community Forum Physicians family physician gynecologist 7 1 + + + - + + One fully committed Other CHCs + + + EDs agreed to house LHP when funding becomes available • SEOCHC 4 + + + Will continue involvement on staff time • Carlington 5 + + + Will continue involvement on staff time • Pinecrest 1 + + + Will continue involvement on staff time OBSP 8 + + + Fully committed to provide support and educational updates to LHPs CHRU 9 + + + Continue dissemination process and to provide staff resources to do so LAZO 9 + + + Continue to provide volunteer time to re-instate project; seek funds; maintain web-site for 2 years CCHC, staff and Board 9 7 + + + Committed to seek funds and advocate for continuation of the project Gentium 9 + + + Will continue to provide volunteer time & expertise; support LAZO; dissemination process; web-site support Other Mammography clinics Were not approached to become part of this project Other organizations not initially listed: SSW Carleton 4 + + + Available to provide expertise CRIAW 6 + + + Will continue involvement if it is useful Cancer Care Ontario/Regional Care 3 + + + Will continue involvement Algonquin College 1 + - - Involvement ad hoc