Connection in Action profile: Victoria Native Friendship Centre
Sharing burdens, celebrating together. …
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Connection in Action profile: Luther Court Society
Making aging less lonely for everyone. …
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Connection in Action profile: Victoria Literacy Connection
Letters that cross generations. …
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Connection in Action profile: West Coast Speaks
Making conversation feel possible. …
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Connection in Action profile: Gatherly
Building friendship, one gathering at a time. …
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How Neighbourly Connections Can Help Us “Age in the Right Place”
Working through common attitudes and resistances towards neighbourly helping. …
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No Help Needed, We’re Canadian!?
Working through common attitudes and resistances towards neighbourly helping. …
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Everyone “gets” emergencies
Why collective preparedness is a popular gateway for neighbours to help one another. …
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Connect & Prepare “Should Be in Every Building!”
Collaborating on emergency preparedness fosters residents’ collective resilience—and lived experiences of disabilities can be valuable assets in the process. This is one of the key takeaways from a unique collaboration in Vancouver, British Columbia that resulted in many resident-participants—and also staff at the organizations involved—feeling inspired and transformed. …
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From Isolated Residents to Engaged Neighbours
In a crisis or emergency, neighbours are often the true ‘first responders’—they’re the nearest people to each other. That’s why local governments are finding that Connect & Prepare plays a… …
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“If You’re Safer, We’re All Safer”
Community-based organizations delivered Building Resilient Neighbourhood’s Connect & Prepare program to groups of resident-neighbours in ten market and non-market multi-unit rental buildings in Vancouver, New Westminster, and North Vancouver in… …
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What residents say: how social connections strengthen emergency preparedness
As Vancouver resident and Connect & Prepare workshop participant Randall MacKinnon describes it, Connect & Prepare is “an open door to walk through and say ‘hi’ to neighbours you haven’t… …
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What is Neighbours Helping Neighbours?
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods recently launched its new program Neighbours Helping Neighbours (NHN). Can you give us an overview of what NHN is and what needs it’s addressing? Neighbours Helping Neighbours… …
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Connect & Prepare in action in New Westminster
Read the New Westminster Connect & Prepare Report! Seniors Services Society of BC and the City of New Westminster’s Community Planning Division and Emergency Management Office collaborated to bring BRN’s Connect & Prepare program to three buildings in New Westminster in 2022-23. …
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Connect & Prepare Expands to three new communities – Here’s How It Went!
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods helped bring Connect & Prepare to three new BC municipalities in 2022-23: North Vancouver, New Westminster, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. Through our partnership with Hey Neighbour Collective and… …
