Our Mission
The mandate of the Community Capacity Building Network (CCBN) is to support the creation of socially inclusive environments to effectively allow Black youth, seniors, and women to access technical and soft skills. Our success as an organization is connected to our vision for a society that continuously builds the capacity of all individuals regardless of their color and social affiliations.
Vision
CCBN achieves its mandate and upholds its vision by providing direct services to as many as 150 Black community members annually. These services include:
- Facilitating the transfer of employment and business knowledge to Black and immigrant youth and young adults.
- Increasing accessibility to social programming for Black seniors to improve their community engagement, connect with peers to combat social isolation, loneliness and access to information sharing workshops in areas of assistive technology, mental health awareness, elder abuse, and financial protection and combat social isolation and loneliness.
- Providing a social and advocacy support system for Black women impacted by violence and connect them with appropriate social and justice systems.
- Delivery of nutritional food and personal protective equipment to vulnerable Black and visible minority families to combat food insecurity.
OUR YOUTH PROGRAMS
The Community Capacity Building Network (CCBN) youth programs strives to create opportunities
for access and full participation of Black youth in 3 main focus areas:
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
The entrepreneurship program make available a consistent business development skills and plan that lead to tangible employment opportunities and establishment of realistic business options.…..read more >>
VIOLENCE PREVENTION
Our youth violence prevention programs focus on enhancing protective factors, promoting education, re-establishing cultural identity, reducing high-risk behaviors, and increasing the circles of support for youth…..read more >>
MENTORSHIP & LEADERSHIP
Youth Mentorship and Leadership program, which empowers youth by building healthy relationships in a nurturing and safe environment, plays a significant role in their development as community leaders…..read more >>
Our Youth Program Targeted Audience
– Elementary Youth Between 10-14 Years Old
– High School Students
– Youth From Community Serving Agencies
– Their Families and Community
WOMEN'S PROGRAMS
As part of Community Capacity Building Network effort to support women, we strives to build coalitions of support to advance the lives of Black and visible minority women in our community by addressing gender-based disadvantages while tapping the existing resources within our communities.
This program focuses on two main services:
This service builds toward establishing a victim advocate program that supports survivors of sexual and domestic violence throughout the justice process. It aims to enhance and formalize partnerships with key criminal justice services, such as police, government victim services, and other community agencies to ensure the right of women.…..read more >>
GIRLS IN ACTION
The service creates healthy and safe learning spaces for Black youth to dismantle and challenge rape culture and sexual violence within the Black community. The program work with teens across the gender spectrum who are Black or of African descent (including but not limited to the general youth population.…..read more >>
SENIOR'S PROGRAMS
The need of our senior’s program focuses on the recognition that as the aging population in
Black communities continuing to grow, the increase of COVID-19 pandemic, experiences of financial hardship, isolation and loneliness has negatively impact Black and visible minority
seniors in the Kitchener community.
The need of our senior’s program focuses on the recognition that as the aging population in Black communities continuing to grow, the increase of Covid-19 pandemic, experiences of financial hardship, isolation and loneliness has negatively impact Black and visible minority seniors in the Kitchener community..…..read more >>
We support seniors empowerment to combat
– Seniors social isolation and loneliness
– Community participation and social engagement.
– seniors abuse
– mental health-health living
– financial awareness-scan prevention
FOOD PROGRAMS
The need of our senior’s program focuses on the recognition that as the aging population in
Black communities continuing to grow, the increase of COVID-19 pandemic, experiences of financial hardship, isolation and loneliness has negatively impact Black and visible minority
seniors in the Kitchener community.
FOOD DELIVERY PROGRAM
To provide support system for vulnerable Black seniors and youth’s experiencing difficulty
in areas of homelessness and challenges to meet end means..…..read more >>
From our Channel
Capacity Building in the Community
The Community Capacity Building Network (CCBN) is supported by the Government of Canada’s Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative and the Tropicana Community Services. This funding through the Tropicana Community Services will provide Community Capacity Building Network. Focused training of Board of Directors, Executive leadership, and volunteers to ensure organization operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Support
Funding provided by the
Government of Ontario
Contact
22 Fredrick Street, Suit 711 Kitchener ON, N2H 6M6
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