Welcome to our new cohort of Connect & Prepare partners!
BRN’s facilitator training expands the reach and impacts of Connect & Prepare. …
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What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!
Neighbours Helping Neighbours: Pilot Learning Report (2023-2025) is now available. …
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Job posting: Project and Communications Coordinator
Let us know exactly where your interests, skills, and availability match with our needs! …
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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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Silver tsunami or golden opportunity?
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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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Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning Report
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare program enhances community emergency preparedness and resilience by strengthening social ties among neighbours through…
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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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Opportunity: Connect & Prepare Facilitators’ Training
Learn how to support your community in building neighbour-to-neighbour resilience and emergency preparedness! Join us for a Connect & Prepare Facilitators’ Training on May 27th 2024. …
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Connect & Prepare Scaling Pilot – Full Learning Report
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… …
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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… …
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Building hope through action
Many communities in BC have experienced the effects of climate change. Sharing stories of impact, successes and lessons is one…
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Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new neighbour-to-neighbour guide
Summer has yet to “officially” begin, yet British Columbia has already been experiencing some unusually hot weather. Extreme heat events…
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Prepare together for extreme heat guide
Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new neighbour-to-neighbour guide. …
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Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video
In an emergency, your neighbours will be the first people at the scene who can potentially help. This simple fact…
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Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments…
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Practice Guide #1: Supporting residents to become community connectors in multi-unit housing
Social connectedness has been demonstrated to strengthen health, well-being, and individual and collective resilience. Meanwhile, multi-unit housing such as apartments…
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A Community Space Designed by Neighbours, for Neighbours
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. …
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Connect & Prepare program applications, call for expressions of interest
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. …
