Passion. Experience. Impact.

How we can help you

 

Extensive experience in a number of sectors and customisable support to your specific wants and needs.

At any stage of the project life cycle your organisation is in, we can support you to get the results you want. With a highly grounded and collaborative practice, we find answers, build tools, and implement solutions in the way that works for you.

 

Sector experience:

  • Mental health and addictions

  • Children and youth

  • Immigrants, refugees, and ethnocultural communities

  • Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

  • Public health and HIV

  • Housing and homelessness

  • Workplace wellbeing

Areas of expertise:

  • Peer support service delivery, quality assurance, training, and evaluation

  • Housing policy and research, including Housing First projects

  • Design theory and user experience mapping

  • Knowledge mobilisation (turning research into action)

  • Collective impact and alumni networks

  • Research and multi-method evaluation

 

For examples of the type of support we can provide you, see our previous work:

Who we are

 

Habitus is about transforming health and social care.

We are an experienced, international collective of community and health strategic thinkers, service designers and research experts, focused on local solutions. We design bold and innovative services to support your organisation and community, so that it can succeed now and in the long term.

Using the very latest global research, we design customised approaches, tools, and programmes, that drive change and embeds best practices in your organisation.

Supporting our clients to achieve their desired aims is at the very heart of everything that we do. We are passionate about getting results for you, your community and the people you serve.

Our aim is to leave you with everything you need to sustainably deliver impact in the long term.

 

History

 

Habitus [ha-buh-tuhs] noun, plural hab·i·tus.

The way each person perceives the world around them, and how they react, based on their experiences.


In December 2014, in a small suburb of a city in Western Canada, a group of leaders from tech, health, community services and the Arts sectors came together in a disused shopfront to discuss how we could do things differently.

We shared what was important to us: improving community and health services with better data and planning.
What gaps we saw in our sector: a limited ability to track the impact of interventions in a complex system.
We then created a plan for how we could use our collective skills and experiences to further advance health and community outcomes for the people we worked for and with.

Habitus Collective was formed on 1st September 2015.

Since then, we have worked with over 50 different organisations, community groups, start-ups, charities, and businesses in more than 5 countries. Through our international networks, we continue to learn and share what is working and why. Our focus remains on the power of local communities.

With offices in Canada and the UK, we’re able to quickly share ideas and strategies between organisations, communities, and populations; accelerating the time it takes to turn great research and data, into practice, evidence, and impact.