Huron County: Community Animation

Huron County: Community Animation

Over a one year period Eko Nomos and Associates facilitated a series of community building workshops that culminated in the creation of the Huron Food Action Network (HFAN).  HFAN now works in food education, food distribution and processing, and food policy...
A-way Express: Strategic Planning

A-way Express: Strategic Planning

A-Way Express is a Social Purpose Enterprise providing employment opportunities for Consumer Survivors and those with lived experience of mental illness. Eko Nomos assisted A-Way in producing a new Strategic Plan. Through multiple stakeholder engagements with individuals at all levels of the organization, the resulting document balances the needs of the organization, the funders, and the staff, ensuring the long-term vitality of this decades-old...
Elizabeth Fry Toronto, Barbra Schlifer Legal Clinic, and the Woman Abuse Council Toronto: The Blue Prints Project Collaborative Developmental Evaluation and Gender Based Analysis on Safety for Newcomer Women

Elizabeth Fry Toronto, Barbra Schlifer Legal Clinic, and the Woman Abuse Council Toronto: The Blue Prints Project Collaborative Developmental Evaluation and Gender Based Analysis on Safety for Newcomer Women

Eko Nomos worked as the developmental evaluation consultant with a collaborative of the Woman’s  Abuse Council of Toronto, the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic and Elizabeth Fry Toronto on a two year project funded by Status of Women Canada to undertake a gender-based analysis of the impact of policy and systems on women’s safety and to develop recommendations and actions to promote the integration of gender considerations into decision making processes on the issue of woman’s safety.  Although the project was focused on the experiences of women living in Toronto it sought to leverage and build upon the work already initiated by the violence against women sector more broadly. This project resulted in a web based tool that mapped policy intersections that created unsafe conditions for newcomer women. The results of this work can be seen here: http://womanabuse.ca/policiesmatter/home.html. Blueprint...
United Way of Greater Toronto and City of Toronto: Harm Reduction Research

United Way of Greater Toronto and City of Toronto: Harm Reduction Research

This two-year harm reduction collaborative research was conducted with six Toronto agencies providing harm reduction services. Eko Nomos worked with agencies to assess the effectiveness of their harm reduction strategies, identify elements of effective practice, and evaluate participant outcomes. In addition, Eko Nomos facilitated a series of workshops to involve the agencies in developing planning frameworks, projecting participant outcomes, devising indicators of success, and planning the implementation of the learning strategy. Link to...
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Eko Nomos researched practices for evaluation of policy development and worked with the  Department of Public Policy at CAMH to develop an approach for building its internal evaluation capacity. Link to...