Funding

Principal Investigator

2022-2025

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant, ($157,650). Arab Refugee Families’ Experiences in the Ontario Child Welfare System.

2021-2022

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Connection Grant, ($25,000). Strengthening Institutional Responses: Exploring Intersections of Child Protection, Immigration, and Criminal Justice to Better Support Caribbean and Latin American Children and Youth in Canada.

2019

Faculty Mobility Award ($6,970). Understanding Children and Youth Protection Systems (UCYPS).

2018-2019

Social Sciences and Humanities Research, Connection Grant ($24, 948). Protecting the Rights, Mobility of Latin America, and Caribbean Youth: Canada’s Role.

2018-2019

Global Affairs Canada, Faculty Mobility Grant ($6,970.88). Understanding Children and Youth Protection Systems.

2017-2021

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant ($152, 749). Journey Home: Refugee Settlement and Integration Project

2016-2017

UNICEF ($31,018). Study on the Experiences of Institutionalized Children and Youth in the Dominican Republic.

2015-2022

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Grant $4,216,583:  SSHRC 2.5 Million + Partners $1,716,583).  Rights for Children and Youth Partnership: Strengthening Collaboration in the Americas.

  • Henry Parada in partnership with 17 Universities in Canada, Central America and Caribbean countries, 23 co-applicants, 36 collaborators and 18 partner institutions

2013-2014

Canada Central America and Caribbean-Ryerson University Partnership ($47,500). Central America and Caribbean Child Protection Pilot Project.

  • Henry Parada and 12 Central American and Caribbean academics and community partners

2012-2015

National European Foundations: Children and Violence Evaluation Challenge Fund ($265,500). Centres for the Integral Attention of Children (CIANIs) and Local Community Organizations for Child Protection (LCOCP) in Dominican Republic.

  • Henry Parada and two co-principal investigators

2008-2009

Italian International Cooperation-UNICEF Santo Domingo ($95,000). Research and Development of Protocol of Practices in the Protection of Child Abuse in the Dominican Republic

  • Henry Parada and five co-investigators

Italian International Cooperation-Unicef Santo Domingo ($191,000). Dominican Republic Incidence Report on the Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation.

  • Henry Parada and three co-investigators

2007

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, SSHRC-International Opportunity Fund ($64, 724). Dominican Republic Incidence of Child Abuse and Sexual Commercial Exploitation.

  • Henry Parada, three co-investigators and four collaborators

United Nation Children’s Fund, UNICEF-Dominican Republic ($ 56,000). Institutional Ethnography of the Governmental and Non-Governmental Institutions Responding to Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation in the Dominican Republic.

  • Henry Parada, six collaborators

2003-2004

International Development Research Centre-Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grant (IDRC-LACREG) ($5,081).Case Study and Evaluation of Community Project in Dominican Republic.

  • Henry Parada and three co-investigators

Pueblito Canada and CEDECO (NGO in the Dominican Republic) ($7,000). Systematization and Evaluation of Community Project in Dominican Republic.

  • Henry Parada and three co-investigators

Co-Investigator

2022-2025

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Development Grant, ($71,500). Fostering Latinx Resilience to Trauma between El Salvador, Canada, and the United States.

  • Maria Liegghio (PI), Henry Parada (Co-applicant)

2020-2021

Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Connection Grant ($24,995). Refugee Resettlement and Integration in Canada: Lived Experience, Lessons Learned, and Promising Practices.

  • Usha George (PI), Henry Parada, four other co-applicants and three collaborators

2019-2022

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Insight Grant ($172,500). Exploring the role of cultural brokers as intermediaries between immigrant and refugee families and child welfare workers.

  • Sara Torres (PI), Henry Parada, five co-applicants and two collaborators

2013-2016

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Development Grant ($153,636). Integration Trajectories of Immigrant Families.

  • Harald Bauder (PI), Henry Parada and 14 other co-investigators from Ryerson University and Community Partners

2011-2012

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada – Students for Development Program ($24,300). Children and Youth Community Participation: Building Capacity against Violence in Brazil.

  • Margareth Zanchetta (PI), Henry Parada and four other co-investigators

Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FQRSC). Migrant and Immigrant Francophone Linguistic Minorities in Canada: Exploring Systemic Barriers and Mobilizing Social Capital and Cultural Assets Related to Family Health Literacy.

  • Margareth Zanchetta (PI), Henry Parada and four other co-investigators

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada. Children and Youth Community Participation: Building Capacity against Violence in Brazil.

  • Zanchetta, Margareth (PI), Henry Parada and four other co-investigators

2011

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Standard Research Grant ($36, 482). Unsettling the Classroom: Social Work Education in the Context of New Managerialism.

  • Ken Moffatt (PI), Henry Parada and four other co-investigators

2010-2011

United Nations Development Funds for Women (UNIFEM) (US $10,000.00). Development of Communities Responses to Violence against Women in Nicaragua.

  • Luz López (PI) (Universidad de Nicaragua) and Henry Parada and two other co-investigators

Team Lead & Director

2012-2018

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Partners for Development Grant ($2,155,049). Children and Youth Human Rights Empowerment Project.

  • Henry Parada and 16 Canadians and academics from the Dominican Republic and community partners

2005-2011

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), University Partnership Community Development Program (UPCD) ($1,479,000). Child Protection and Interfamilial Safety Project.

  • Henry Parada and 9 academic and community partners

Canadian Institute of Health Research. ($5,000). A Community-Based Research and Intervention Initiative Focused on Improving the Health, Social Circumstances and Life Opportunities Among High Risk Youth (15-29) in the Greater Toronto Area, (Successful Letter of Intent.)

  • Henry Parada and 15 academic and community partners

2004

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) ($15,000). Building Capacity in the Dominican Republic to Combat Children and Women Sexual and Labour Exploitation. Successful Letter of Intent.

  • Henry Parada (General Project Director) and nine academic and community partners.

Collaborator

2018-2025

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Partnership Grant ($2, 486, 500). Inclusive Early Childhood Service System Project (IECSS).

  • Kathryn Underwood (PI), Henry Parada 7 co-investigators, and 4 other collaborators

Research Associate

2001-2003

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ($163,000).The Analysis of the Child Welfare Systems in the Provinces of British Columbia and Ontario.

  • Karen Swift (PI), co-investigator Marilyn Callahan, and Henry Parada