Community Health and Social Innovation (CHASI) Hub
CHASI believes that it is important that research should be shared widely and publicly so that decision-makers and communities can turn that knowledge into action. Below you will find a listing of all of our publicly available completed projects.
If you have any questions about our work, or would like to discuss a potential future collaboration, please contact us.
Type: Podcast
Date: Ongoing
CHASI's podcast welcomes experts from across disciplines to share their stories and insights, while drilling down on how current topics impact our lives.
Type: Report
Date: May 2023
Partner: Archway Community Services
This project invited those directly impacted by the Abbotsford floods in 2021 to describe their experiences through a survey instrument, interviews, and focus groups with the goal to understanding how community members can be supported in recovery and the community can enhance disaster resiliency and preparedness.
Type: Article
Date: August 2022
Publication: Historical Archaeology
Dr. Sarah Beaulieu’s research focuses on the Morrissey Internment Camp, one of Canada’s 24 World War I internment camps, with the aim of using the material culture record at the camp as a point of access to examine the coping strategies prisoners of war adopted to help mitigate mental-health issues triggered by confinement.
Read The Materiality of Mental Health at the Morrissey World War I Internment Camp
Type: Report
Date: January 2022
Partners: Mitacs, Chilliwack Social Planning and Research Council
An analysis of factors related to household food security, examining how the economic, social, cultural, demographic, and environmental context of the community, as well as local food system and related food policies, contribute to local food security.
Read Food (In)Security: An Assessment of Communal Factors Impacting Food Security in Chilliwack
Type: Documentary
Date: November 2021
Partner: Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund
This multi-faceted initiative involved the Monashee Internment Camp excavation, archival research and interviews culminating in the creation of the documentary.
Watch Fragments of History: Unearthing the stories and artefacts of Monashee internment camp
Type: Report
Date: March 2021
Partner: National Indigenous Fire Safety Council
CHASI supported a regional fire centre site selection process through the creation of a GIS model which integrated risk assessment while maximizing the number of supported community members.
Type: Report
Date: February 2021
Partner: National Indigenous Fire Safety Council
CHASI created a directory of entities within postsecondary institutions (e.g., Indigenous Student Centres, Indigenous Studies Departments) and Friendship Centres across Canada to aid in recruitment strategies and local community engagement.
Read Community Scan: Directory of Post-Secondary Institutions and Friendship Centres Across Canada
Type: Report
Date: August 2020
Partner: National Indigenous Fire Safety Council
A risk analysis of 624 on-reserve communities across Canada to assist the National Indigenous Fire Safety Council as it collaborates with communities in the implementation of strategies aimed at fire risk reduction.
Type: Comic
Date: Ongoing
Our Charmed Circle shares the story of four friends connected across the continent by a shared enthusiasm for gaming and bound by a sense of solidarity. With this comic, CHASI and artist Sharon Strauss aim to explore the issues we face, the world we live in, and how we find the strength to forge an identity in an ever-changing political landscape.
Type: Art Exhibit
Date: March 2023
Partners: UFV School of Creative Arts
In winter 2023, UFV Theatre performed a production of The Laramie Project, a play relating the aftermath of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man, in Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998. In support, CHASI coordinated the Laramie Project Digital Art Competition, which offered students a chance to share artwork inspired by Matthew’s legacy.
Type: Documentary
Date: February 2022
Four Fraser Valley artists created a series of paintings with a clear focus on increasing awareness of the systemic racism faced by Black people and inspiring concrete action to tackle its existence globally and locally, and CHASI had the opportunity to document their inspirations and experiences.
Type: Art Exhibit
Date: December 2021
CHASI's art exhibit Faces of Resilience, by former graphic design intern Celina Koops, was created for observances such as National Indigenous History Month and International Women’s Day. The art hung in the CHASI Hub, bringing life, colour, and inspiration to our team.
Type: Recorded event
Date: May 2021
Partner: BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, UFV’s Race and Antiracism Network, and the South Asian Studies Institute
CHASI and its partners presented a talk from representatives of the BCOHR, which advocated for governmental use of disaggregated data such as race-based data to “illuminate systemic inequalities and injustices.”
Type: Report
Date: October 2022
Partner: City of White Rock, British Columbia
An exploration of the strengths and limitations of White Rock’s wellness programming for older adults, with the principal goal being to effectively support population health and experiences of wellness for older residents during and beyond the pandemic.
Read Wellness and Connectedness in White Rock During COVID-19
Type: Report
Date: November 2020
Partners: Divisions of Family Practice, City of Abbotsford Recreation, Parks and Culture
This report examines how outdoor group-based physical activity—recommended by a physician and carried out with other South Asian women—may be an opportunity to improve physical activity in a community that reports low levels of physical activity and is also uniquely affected by higher rates of diabetes and heart disease.
Read The Utility of Physician Referred Outdoor Physical Activity for South Asian Women
Type: Analysis
Date: July 2022
Partner: British Columbia Council on Admissions & Transfer
Creating an interactive repository of survey documents about the impact of COVID-19 on post-secondary students across Canada and analyzing them thematically with attention to implementation and areas for future research.
Read Impact of COVID-19 on Post-Secondary Students: A Systematic Review of Institutional Reports
Type: Article
Date: January 2022
Publication: Journal of Social Work Education
This article explores how social work students conceptualize differences between social work practitioners and researchers, and how that impacts their research engagement.
Type: Report
Date: April 2021
Partner: UFV’s South Asian Studies Institute
This report summarizes the responses given by nearly 1,500 UFV students who participated in a survey issued in April 2020, at the outset of the pandemic.
Read UFV COVID-19 Student Experiences with Travel, Health, and COVID-19