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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Announcing Capital Region Connection in Action
A new regional community-building initiative in the Greater Victoria area. …
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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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Connect & Prepare – A Guide to Getting Started
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No Help Needed, We’re Canadian!?
Working through common attitudes and resistances towards neighbourly helping. …
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Neighbour to Neighbour – The Connectors Toolkit
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Everyone “gets” emergencies
Why collective preparedness is a popular gateway for neighbours to help one another. …
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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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Protected: N2N Preparedness
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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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Job posting: Facilitator of Programs & Partnerships
BRN is hiring a Facilitator of Programs & Partnerships. 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. …
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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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Be prepared for extreme heat and wildfire smoke – a collection of resources
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Hey Neighbour Collective have curated a list of resources, tools, and guides from BC and Canadian sources to prepare for extreme heat and wildfires (updated 2024). …
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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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Neighbours Helping Neighbours West Coast Kick Off!
Who do you call when you could use a hand with a simple household task, when you need to borrow an item. How do you stay safe during an extreme… …
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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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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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Wendy’s Story
Wendy knows all of the residents on her floor, and they check in with each other regularly. Every evening, Wendy and her next door neighbour knock on their shared wall around the same time, just to let each other know they’re okay. …
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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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Protected: Vancouver – Mount Pleasant delivers Connect & Prepare
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Protected: North Vancouver Delivers Connect & Prepare
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