Use Research Now
You can use Families First Edmonton (FFE) research now to make a difference in the lives of low income families. Although the final research results are a year away, FFE partner organizations are using baseline data to help change service delivery practices, better connect low income families to services and improve collaboration within and across systems.
You can use the research now to:
- Align resources and work together differently so that low income families can better access services
- Review and reflect on your current practices
- Supplement your organization's desire for continual improvement in policy and service delivery
- Support a business case for funding
- Examine leading practices in program delivery
- Partner or collaborate with immigrant and refugee communities
- Examine current service delivery to address systemic barriers
- Shape social policy and programs
- Create collaborative partnerships across organizations and community agencies
- Make a difference in the lives of low income families
How your organizations uses FFE research and how useful the research is to your organization requires your time and consideration to:
- Review the researchand evaluate it with what ou know about your client groups
- Match the available research to your organization's current strategic priorities
- Provide FFE with feedback on how the research was used
Where we are in the FFE Study:
| Year | Outcome |
|---|---|
| 2000 - 2006 | Partnership Development and Study Design |
| 2006 - 2009 | Research Study Service Delivery Interventions |
| 2010 - 2012 | Putting The Research To Work Project |
| 2012 | Final Research Results Available |
Here's what's available now to help your organization initiate, advance or support your strategic priorities low income. Information is available in the following three areas:
Practices & Program Implementation
FFE Partner Stories
Learn how Families First Edmonton partner organizations are incorporating FFE learnings and insights into their current services and practices. Each partner story illustrates how to transfer knowledge from the research study and make changes to organizational processes or policies.
From gaining a greater understanding of how the first conversation with a client impacts family outcomes to how to improve collaboration within and across systems to better connect low income families to services, the FFE partner stories provide tips on how to:
- Use the research
- Set the stage for change in your organization
Reports
Reports from the FFE project service delivery phase can be used to:
- Gain a deeper understanding of how to build collaborative partnerships and what to expect as the partnerships move from development to implementation
- Implement an integrated services approach that is principle based and builds family capacity
- Recruit and engage families from small, emerging immigrant and refugee communities and build ongoing connections to hard to reach communities
Collaboration / Partnership
These Families First Edmonton research products give voice to the experiences of FFE low income families in accessing services. Use these products to provoke conversation in your organization about how service practices may be experienced by those they are intended to help.
Data on Low Income Families
Baseline research data about Families First Edmonton families provides information in key social determinant of health areas. Learn about the diversity of FFE families, employment and education levels, family characteristics, functioning and parental well being, housing affordability and service integration practices.