About CRNCC
CRNCC is a dynamic partnership between researchers and other key stakeholders including community service providers, consumers and policy makers. CRNCC encourages research and knowledge transfer in home and community care, a crucial, yet under-active research area in Canada. CRNCC operates through membership participation in a virtual network.
Overall Network Goal
To build and disseminate evidence on community care and on its role within the continuum of care.
Network Objectives
- Raise the profile of the community care sector as a whole.
- Build and disseminate evidence on community care and on its role within the continuum of care.
- Transfer knowledge about community care to community agencies, government and the broader community.
- Actively engage community partners in the conceptualization and interpretation/analysis of community research.
- Provide evidence to facilitate advocacy for community care within the broader continuum of care.
Membership
Membership includes, but is not limited to, academics, providers of community care, policy-makers and other interested stakeholders from across Canada and abroad. Benefits of membership are:
- Information: Free access to current academic literature.
- Engagement: Participation in an ongoing exchange of academic, grey and other community care literature.
- Development: Encouragement of students to work and/or undertake research in the community care sector.
- Legitimacy: Ability to demonstrate interest in, and evidence related to, the community care sector.
Organization
Activities of CRNCC are guided by a Steering Committee with ongoing input from member organizations.
Financial Accountability
The CRNCC is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and Ryerson University.
History of CRNCC
The Canadian Research Network for Care in the Community (CRNCC) was launched at the symposium, From Idea to Action: Community Services in the Continuum of Care, held in Toronto on March 31, 2005. In its initial year, the CRNCC was funded by the Medicare to Home and Community (M-THAC) Research Unit at the University of Toronto, and was based at the department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME).
