Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) is a collaborative effort to help create more resilient communities and neighbourhoods in British Columbia, Canada. It is currently delivered and hosted by the non-profit Building Resilient Neighbourhoods Society.
Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new neighbour-to-neighbour guide. …
Do you know of a group of neighbours, large or small, who assist, support, or look out for each other? Have you seen examples of neighbours helping neighbours either in… …
The ideal candidate is a flexible, adaptive, creative self-starter who also thrives working collaboratively with our team and a diverse range of community members and partners. …
A year after the engagement sessions, neighbours will be celebrating the newest addition to their block: a neighbourhood bench activating underused public space in this growing community. …
We are inviting groups of neighbours living in either a multi-unit building or complex, or on the same street, to be part of a fully online version of our popular “Connect & Prepare” program this spring. Online workshops held between April-June 2021 with the support of micro-grants, program materials, and resource experts. …
Participate in Connect & Prepare and help build a culture of “neighbours helping neighbours” where you live! (Two info sessions available!) About this Event The pandemic is reminding us all…
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It is a marathon, not a sprint. When COVID-19 hit Canada in March many of us braced ourselves for a short period of inconvenience. Pushing into 9 months of the pandemic and lockdowns it’s clear this is not a sprint, but a marathon with uncertainties of where the finish line will be. …
One of the ways that Covid-19 has influenced our lives is through disruption of our food systems. Supply chains were disturbed causing delays, processing plants were shut down, there was… …
As Canadians we tend to cocoon over the winter and once the weather gets sunny many of us cannot wait to get out and socialize with our friends and neighbours…. …
At Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, we often talk about community resilience as a set of “muscles” we can intentionally develop that will help us pro-actively respond and adapt to different shocks… …
We’d like to share with you some of the simple, practical things that we’ve seen people doing lately to safely connect with and support their neighbours. …
The Hey Neighbour Collective (in which Building Resilient Neighbourhoods is a partner) has produced a handy “Resident Animators Guide ” to help “bring community to life” in the apartment, condominium,… …
In many of British Columbia’s densifying communities, multi-unit housing is becoming the norm; however, these housing types can have disproportionately lower levels of connection and community between neighbours, which has… …
We are inviting groups of neighbours living on the same street or in the same buildings or building complexes to be part of an exciting new program called “Connect… …
On March 31, neighbours of Leonard Street in Victoria, BC welcomed the newest addition to their block: a shared emergency supply bench. The bench was envisioned months ago by the… …
Together, We Can Build the Future of Emergency Preparedness The Challenge British Columbians are vulnerable to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, tsunamis, changing climate and severe weather. Many of us are also… …
Listen to the podcast of BRN’s Stacy Barter and Australian strata lawyer Amanda Famer discussing “Vertical Streets” and the fostering of social connectedness and resilience in high-density apartments and condominiums…. …
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods team members Michelle Colussi and Stacy Barter have been on the road this October and November delivering Resilient Streets workshops for new collaboratives that will be implementing… …
Are you interested in strengthening emergency preparedness and connections between neighbours? Become part of our unique pilot project! “Connect and Prepare” Call for Expressions of Interest Together we are ready!… …
The City of Vancouver, BC recently took forty developers, property managers, architects and planners to visit eight sites that showcased friendly, sociable multi-unit buildings. It marked “the start of strong… …
“Start small and build incrementally” — it could be a mantra for increased social cohesion and more welcoming neighbourhoods alike. Check out this report from Lorne Daniel of the Greater… …
Cultivate character and connection on your block with little free libraries, gathering spaces, community info boards and more! Learn how you can start a small project with your neighbours with… …
The Transition Network’s Caring Collaborative produced a manual for helping create closer social ties and a greater experience of community in apartments and condominium buildings. Here’s a brief excerpt below,… …
How well do you know your neighbours? Suburban life is often isolating and rarely a true community experience. In this TEDx talk about Hulbert Street in Perth, Australia, Shani Graham… …
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