Working towards a sustainable Hamilton community that is caring, inclusive, empowering, and
accessible for all
SPRC Hamilton is an independent voice, serving to inform the community about demographic trends, highlight social inequities, and promote solutions that will improve social conditions. We work in partnership with community members and organizations to provide relevant social research and analysis which helps inform decision making. We provide consultation services to help organizations better understand and analyze their data, and we facilitate community programs which help address existing and emerging needs. Our work is centered around issues related to poverty reduction; housing security, equity and inclusion, and the healthy development of children and families.
Land Acknowledgement
SPRC Hamilton is situated on the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Mississaugas. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We acknowledge that this land is also covered by the Between the Lakes Purchase, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.
OVERVIEW: SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
SPRC Hamilton has several programs that it directly develops and manages. These programs support our goal of developing a sustainable Hamilton community that is caring, inclusive, empowering, and accessible with a focus on meeting the fundamental needs of people in our city.
We also have services that build on SPRC Hamilton’s strong history of helping the Hamilton community through areas of specialty that are uniquely positioned to support organizations in being and becoming the best versions of themselves.
OVERVIEW: SERVICES & PROGRAMS
SPRC Hamilton operates programs for individuals which support our goal of developing a sustainable, accessible, and equitable Hamilton, by focussing on meeting the fundamental needs of people in our community.
We also offer services to organizations and institutions that build on SPRC Hamilton’s strong history of helping and supporting the community and non-profit sector through social planning and community development activities.
SERVICES
Research
and Analysis
Program
Evaluation
Systems Planning and Facilitation
Community Development for Change
Programs
Tastebuds, Hamilton’s Student Nutrition Collaborative
Financial
Empowerment Program
Community Action Program
for Children (CAPC)
Research and Insights
When we say we LOVE data and research, we really mean it. We’ve been providing these services in our community for almost 60 years. Why is this important? In order to make effective and informed decisions for our community, one needs to collect data, as well as analyze and make sense of the data. That’s what we do.
We help people understand information about their community, including how our population is changing and what new supports or services might be needed in the future. Research and analysis helps our community meet needs today and plan for the future. We break this down in our publications which focus on four key areas:
- Poverty Reduction and Elimination
- Healthy Development of Children and Families
- Housing and Homelessness
- Equity and Inclusion
RESEARCH AND INSIGHTS
When we say we LOVE data and research, we really mean it. We’ve been providing these services in our community for almost 60 years. Why is this important? In order to make effective and informed decisions for our community, one needs to collect data, as well as analyze and make sense of the data. That’s what we do.
We help people understand information about their community, including how our population is changing and what new supports or services might be needed in the future. Research and analysis helps our community meet needs today and plan for the future. We break this down in our publications which focus on four key areas:
- Poverty Reduction and Elimination
- Healthy Development of Children and Families
- Housing and Homelessness
- Equity and Inclusion
LATEST PUBLICATIONS AND UPDATES
Canada Learning Bond Participation in Hamilton
Introduction Over the course of several months in 2014 community partners in Hamilton collaborated to arrange and host a series of community events that would invite and assist eligible families with young children to register for the Canada Learning Bond (CLB)....
Binbrook business offers sweet support to school nutrition program
A Binbrook-based business is supporting a school nutrition program. The business, named Ashley's Sweets & Treats, offered to hold a cupcake decorating class at the school and donate a portion of each registration fee to the nutrition program, which provides...
It’s time to ‘listen, learn and act’ to address hate in Hamilton
Celebrating March 21st International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination for 2023. SPRC Executive Director and Co-chair of No Hate In the Hammer, Kim Martin, joined Kojo Damptey, former Executive Director of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion,...
‘With food costs soaring and no national program, Canadian schools struggle to feed students’
By Caroline Alphonso, Education Reporter Globe & MailTuesday, March 14, 2023 Globe and Mail Article March 14, 2023.pdf
Hamilton-Centre tenants urgently need more protection: election candidate survey
Green and PC candidates do not respond to SPRC survey on rental housing The Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton sent a survey by email to candidates in the Hamilton Centre by-election to ask their views on the housing crisis facing tenants. The survey...
The Hamilton Spectator: Demand for school-based food programs soars in Hamilton
City food programs are working to keep up with a spike in demand amid inflation and rising food costs, with some reporting a 25 per cent increase in demand over recent years. And food prices in Ontario are climbing — about 18 per cent since 2018. The latest Canada...
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When you support SPRC Hamilton, you become part of the effort to improve the quality of life for all those living in Hamilton. You can make an impact with SPRC Hamilton as a participant, collaborator, or donor.