Photo by Tristan OliffAndrew joins young environmental leaders from Lawson Foundation’s Youth Action & Environment Pilot Fellowship as they do outdoor yoga together in Quebec City. Earth Day is traditionally and rightfully focused on carbon reduction targets and policy shifts, but after reflecting on some of our prior evaluation projects focussed on climate change, our
The Lawson Foundation. TNC was the evaluator for Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy, which funded eight different projects across Canada that were designed to build the capacity of early childhood educators to support outdoor play. Through the Strategy, we led or supported evaluations of several different post-secondary courses as well as many different types of
The First in our Series Entitled: Finding the Right Methods We recently completed a three year evaluation of The Lawson Foundation’s Outdoor Play Strategy, which was designed to build adult capacity to impact outdoor play in early learning and child care (ELCC) and support systemic change. The project gave us amazing opportunities to visit projects
Partner: Canadian Woman’s Foundation (CWF) TNC delivered a research report examining the mental health climate for Two-Spirit, Nonbinary, Trans, and Questioning Girls and Black, Indigenous, and racialized girls in Canada. For this report, TNC conducted focus groups with Indigenous-led and Queer-led youth-serving organizations and held discussions with racialized, Indigenous, and queer youth. The final report,
Partner: CMHA National TNC Designed and carried out an evaluation of a newly developed peer support training program for use in five colleges and universities across Canada. The evaluation focused on the training of students with lived experience, campus-community partnerships, models of peer support delivery and spaces on campus, and outcomes of peer support workers
Partner: The Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health. TNC conducted a large-scale developmental evaluation of Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario mental health initiative, with a specific focus on youth and family engagement activities within the broader initiative. In partnership with the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health, TNC
Partner: BGC Canada Conducted a case study evaluation with six pilot agencies to inform a national 12-week youth substance use and addiction prevention program. The toolkit followed a strengths-focused, inclusive, trauma informed approach. It was sensitive to diverse identities and experiences and applied the principles of harm reduction. The program also contained a guardian training
Partners: CMHA Waterloo-Wellington-Dufferin Evaluated the brief services – short-term, quick access interventions – provided to children and youth at multiple locations in Wellington and Dufferin Counties. The evaluation focus was on understanding current models of practice compared to other brief service models; pathways in and out of services; service utilization; challenges and barriers; and observed
Partners: Lutherwood and the Lead Agency Advisory Council of Waterloo Region. In two sequential projects, conducted a comprehensive environmental scan of existing Child and Youth Mental Health services in Waterloo Region. The scan was developed to examine the types, reach, and focus of services within MCYS core funding as well as other CYMH programs funded
Partner: Kinark Child and Family Services. Kinark’s Youth Justice Program focuses on providing community-based mental health programming to youth in conflict with the law in York and Simcoe Regions. TNC conducted an evaluation to promote understanding of the alignment of program capacity with youth needs. We interviewed program staff (clinicians and a program psychologist), reviewed
Partner: Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre We are currently working with the Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre (ORCC) to evaluate the implementation and impact of two concurrent projects funded by WAGE. ORCC is currently developing an anti-oppressive guidebook that is intended to be used by service providers providing support to survivors of sexual violence and gender-based violence
Partner: BGC Canada Designed to reduce teen dating violence, Respect2Connect supports youth to develop and sustain healthy relationships by equipping them with appropriate tools and techniques. TNC conducted a literature review on teen dating violence prevention programs and consulted with Club staff to test concepts, skills and design principles associated with design options. TNC consulted
Partner: Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) TNC led a two-pronged research and evaluation project for SIECCAN in support of WAGE funding. The funding was to develop and implement sexual health education guidelines and benchmarks for the prevention of gender-based violence. TNC completed a literature review that explored the implicit and explicit connections
Partner: Canadian Women’s Foundation This soon to be launched online course focuses on teaching allies, survivors, and organizations about technology-facilitated gender based violence and strategies for combating online hate. TNC was hired by the CWF to design and carry out an evaluation for measuring the impact and implementation of this course. To date we have
Did you know that Taylor Newberry Consulting has 15 years of experience working with over 200 organizations on projects related to mental health. 👏 We are excited about this much-needed federal investment in youth mental health! TNC is excited to collaborate on submissions for the Youth Mental Health Fund call for proposals(link). Why Choose Taylor
Partner: United Way Toronto United Way Greater Toronto (United Way), in partnership with the General Mills Foundation and Greater Twin Cities United Way, piloted a grant stream intended to strengthen Mississauga’s food system. The grant had a strong emphasis on building the evaluation capacity of funded organizations. United Way hired TNC to complete an environmental scan
Partner: Abiona Centre The Ujima Project is a pilot project focused on bringing mental health and early literacy support, developmental screening, and family navigation services to underserved mothers and their children. The Abiona Centre, the project’s lead agency, contracted TNC to conduct a multi-year evaluation across nine participating agencies. This evaluation examines the Ujima Project’s
Partners: The 519 and Homes First TNC has been working with both The 519 – a 2SLGBTQ+ community center based in Toronto, and Homes First – a shelter provider in the GTA to evaluate their partnership and the development of the first dedicated 2SLGBTQ+ shelter for queer refugees in Toronto. As part of this project
