The Centre for Community Research Learning and Action is a research centre within the Faculty of Science at Wilfrid Laurier University.  Our mandate is to promote excellence in community-university partnerships and research that advances community health and social justice. CCRLA’s advancement of community engaged scholarship expresses Laurier’s mandate as an active corporate citizen and the Faculty of Science’s commitment to the promotion of education and research that addresses society’s most pressing social issues. Longer term research relationships are fostered at CCRLA to work with community partners through all stages of the action research cycle from question formation to data collection, analysis, reporting and action.  Research partnerships are based on reciprocal benefit addressing research and evaluation needs of community partners while providing rich community service learning research opportunities for students, and  institutional support in community-engaged research, for faculty.