2024-2025 Interconnectedness Initiative Year in Review
Thanks to the ongoing support from the Victoria Foundation, Phase III of VCST’s Interconnectedness Initiative came to a successful conclusion…
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Fourth Case Conference Report
The fourth case conference of the I.I. took place on March 27, 2025, with the participation of 13 people from…
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Interconnectedness Initiative Research Report: Stakeholder Strengths & Opportunities
As a coalition of agencies and individuals responding to the needs of survivors of torture and their families, VCST works…
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Interconnectedness Initiative: Second Case Conference Report
During the previous year of the VCST’s Interconnectedness Initiative, “Case Conferencing” was identified by stakeholders as an essential tool to…
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Interconnectedness initiative: First case conference report
During the previous year of the VCST’s Interconnectivity Initiative, “Case Conferencing” was identified as an essential tool to address sensitive…
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What is the role of planners in fostering pro-social communities?
In the face of an emerging asocial society1, urban and community planners are challenged to promote social connections and combat…
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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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Reducing social isolation among older adults helps everyone
Efforts to tackle social isolation among older Canadians could produce a wealth of health and lifestyle benefits for the country’s…
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Employment opportunity: Quantitative Fisheries Ecologist (permanent full-time position)
Raincoast Conservation Foundation is looking to bring a quantitative ecologist, biologist, biostatistician or fisheries analyst onto our salmon team to…
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Job posting: Program & Curriculum Designer; Resilience Facilitator
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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Mainstreaming socially connected, affordable multi-unit housing across British Columbia
On September 16, Hey Neighbour Collective and Happy Cities co-hosted an online workshop to explore cultural, financial, and policy-level challenges…
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Partner snapshot: Concert Properties
Founded in 1989, Concert Properties is an award-winning, Canadian-owned, real estate enterprise involved in developing assured rental housing, condominium homes…
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Partner snapshot: Catalyst Community Developments
Catalyst is carrying out a “Community Connections Pilot” which includes landlord-led or supported social events, workshops, and “Town Hall meetings”,…
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Partner snapshot: Brightside Community Homes Foundation
Brightside is a non-profit organization that owns and operates 26 buildings across Vancouver, and provides safe and secure affordable homes…
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Report: Legal Measures to Protect the Gulf Islands Coastal Douglas-fir Zone
With gigantic douglas firs and cedars, twisting garry oak meadows, and colourful arbutus groves, Canada’s Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) biogeoclimactic zone…
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Theory of change
Multi-unit housing is: socially connected, desirable, neighbourly, health-promoting, and resilient. Theory of Change, 2020 June (PDF) Hey Neighbour Collective helps…
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Hey Neighbour! Collective chart
Hey Neighbour! Collective chart (PDF) Community of practice/research cohort: Catalyst Community Developments Society Brightside Community Homes Concert Properties Connect &…
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Some notes on why jihad is good
I think a lot of non-Muslim folks don’t understand that jihad has good meanings. When a Muslim person gives birth,…
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Thinking About Healing
After a very long process of collaboration, creativity, and care, we have a new zine! This zine is thinking about…
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Uploading pdfs and making them available for download with WordPress
PDFs are a secure format for documents and are a excellent way to upload and download documents to and from…
