The At Home/Chez Soi Project

It covers the final period of the project when Sustainability of the project was being planned and implemented, and tells the sustainability story of the project—what happened and why. [...] The Sustainability Story Sustainability Planning Period (final year of the demonstration project): During the last year of the project the Winnipeg site’s Sustainability Committee worked to transition the project teams and participants leading up to the project end. [...] A lot of work focused on the development and training of the service teams and bringing partners together and building trust, and these activities took time and impacted fidelity at the beginning of the project. [...] The implementation model—of capacity building—was strategically adopted, with the objective of establishing capacity in the community, and respondents stressed the importance of the relationships forged through the project, many of which have endured and facilitated sustainability. [...] A few stakeholders felt that results from the research could have informed the way the service teams operated on the ground in a more direct way, but the service teams emphasized the importance of evidence-based practices and the value of the research findings in their own funding promotion.