Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Community-Based Research Toolkit: Resources and Tools for Doing Research with Community for Social Change
The tools, templates and resources in this toolkit were compiled and developed by the community-based research team at Access Alliance based on half a decade of implementing community-based research projects. This toolkit is designed for people and institutions interested in doing research using community-based research principles, and contains over 70 ready to use tools and templates and numerous best practices recommendations.
Community-based participatory research: A guide to ethical principles and practices
This guide lays out ethical principles and guidelines for community-based participatory research. This guide focuses on the lessons learned by people working intensively in this area, and provides a useful resource for anyone interested in developing more participatory approaches to their research.
Research Ethics: A Guide for Community Organizations
This document aims to share our knowledge around research ethics, to empower us in our work, and to reduce the potential harms that participation in research/evaluation has had on some impoverished and/or criminalized client populations. These guidelines are intended for groups that work with recipient populations that are impoverished, criminalized or otherwise socially marginalized or isolated.
Toolkit for Lawyers: Best Practices in Working with Battered Immigrant Women
This toolkit addresses some of the common challenges faced by lawyers working with battered immigrant women, and provides tools and strategies that enhance effective communication with, and legal representation of women.
Toolkit for Immigrant Women Working with a Lawyer
This resource is for all immigrant women who have experienced violence and are going through the legal system. Using this resource will help you be more prepared to work with your legal aid lawyer or any lawyer.
Community-Based Participatory Research: A Training Manual for Community-Based Researchers
The goal of this toolkit is to help develop a basic understanding of community-based participatory research concepts and methodologies, such that community members can participate meaningfully in the different phases of the research process (including planning, data collection, data analysis, dissemination of findings, and action) in their community.
Safety Planning for Persons with Disabilities: Advocate Guide
This guide covers the core beliefs and values for helping survivors with disabilities plan for safety, tips on how and when to use a safety plan for a variety of situations experienced by a survivor, and, a safety plan template. The act of planning for safety helps survivors think through possible dangers in a variety of situations and have a plan in mind about what to do when their physical and/or emotional safety is threatened.
Human Rights in Action: A Handbook for Women in Provincial Jails in British Columbia
This toolkit is about enabling women to survive criminalization and prison by reinforcing their own, pre-existing capacities and strengths, and to assist incarcerated women to become a self and peer advocates.