ENGAGE
COLLABORATION
NETWORK
An ongoing role of CDC Quinte has been to engage with community members, people of lived experience, institutions, associations, businesses, and governments to foster relationship building and collaboration and address emerging local issues holistically. This work can include knowledge exchange through informal conversations, sitting on committees, bringing people together through workshops and roundtables, or developing and coordinating networks.
At its core, community outreach helps communities function better. It brings people and institutions together for the common good and can create an inspirational, ripple effect of change. When people and groups come together, the result of their impact becomes greater than anything possible alone or in silos. Outreach opens doors, welcomes new and possibly unforeseen partnerships, and helps to create community-wide lasting change.
Our current local outreach work supports:
- Coordination of the Belleville Charitable Meal Programs Network (CHAMPS)
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, City of Belleville
- Community Services Network, Co-Chair
- Tweed Food for All Steering Committee
- HPE Data Consortium
We Are Members
We are also members of provincial, national, and international networks that allow us to exchange knowledge, skills, and awareness with other regions:
- Ontario Not-For-Profit Network
- Social Planning Network of Ontario
- Tamarack Institute - ABCD Communities of Practice
- Put Food in the Budget
- Poverty Free Ontario
Past Involvement
Past outreach work has included an active role in local networks, such as:
- HPE Poverty Roundtable, 2015-2019
- Community Garden Network H&PEC
- Children & Youth Services Network HPE
- Healthy Kids Community Challenge
- Food Security Working Group, PEC
