RECAP: Making Healthcare More Accessible for Immigrants & Refugees
Building Connections between Settlement Workers & Healthcare Providers in Victoria, BC With Haley Smith (ICA) and Sein Youn (DVUPCC) Summary…
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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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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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What is torture? A workshop by Victoria Coalition for Survivors of Torture
As part of our Interconnectedness Initiative, we held a training workshop on April 3rd 2024, with the participation of 14…
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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 can we learn from the rental housing sector about social connectedness?
In our first three years of project work (2019–2022), HNC has engaged deeply with our Community of Practice members –…
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Preliminary study of water quality in streams discharging into Fulford Harbour raise questions about land-based pollution
Water is vital to life, and on the Gulf Islands, efforts to understand, monitor and protect watersheds are increasingly needed…
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How does housing density really affect life in cities?
Canada is simultaneously experiencing a severe housing crisis and – like many other countries – a crisis of increasing loneliness…
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We need to understand the extent to which floods further degrade fish habitat
A version of this article was published by Vancouver Sun on December 8, 2022. In November 2021, we viewed with…
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Reflecting on five years of SHIFT Collaborative
As 2022 draws to a close, SHIFT Collaborative celebrates its fifth year as a consulting co-operative. We look back at a selection of the meaningful work we have been privileged to contribute to over the last five years. …
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A former lake re-emerges: A backgrounder
The catastrophic floods of late 2021 in southern British Columbia (Canada) and neighbouring Washington State (USA) destroyed homes, farms, and…
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Breaking ground in removing social barriers
In a pioneering effort, the municipal government of Barcelona, Spain in 2020 launched a ten-year strategy to reduce isolation and…
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Report: Climate, Health and COVID-19 in British Columbia
On behalf of the BC Climate Health Network, we are thrilled to share this new report, Climate, Health and COVID-19 in British Columbia, produced by SFU’s Planetary Health Research Group and the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). …
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Advancing urgently needed tree protection policy in the Islands Trust
This summer, I had the privilege of working with Raincoast as their Tree Protection Policy Intern. The main focus of…
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Developing Truly Complete Communities, Discussion Paper
Developing Truly Complete Communities: Social equity, social connectedness and multi-unit housing in an age of public health and climate crises….
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The state of hyperlinking in journalism, a case study
From time to time I like to check in on how news orgs are doing with their online publishing practices….
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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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Read our report on Lower Fraser river
2020 has seen record low returns of sockeye to the Fraser River. To help address this critical conservation issues the…
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New report on the disappearance of British Columbia’s old growth forests
A new report titled, B.C.’s Old Growth Forest: A Last Stand for Biodiversity found that the majority of British Columbia’s…
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The Common Approach to Impact Measurement and the Common Foundations
SHIFT Collaborative supports a range of partners (foundations, non-profits, community-based organizations, government) in better understanding the social and environmental impact they are having, often on complex issues. But, how can we demonstrate social impact in a meaningful way? How can we…
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Making the Links 2018 Summary Report, now live!
After a few months of careful integration, the SHIFT team is thrilled to announce that the Making the Links Summary Report is now available. If you were one of the 180+ attendees who joined us at the Laurel Packinghouse in November…
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Climate change and public health outcomes: the time for collaborative action is now
With the consequences of a global average warming of 1°C already being experienced through more extreme weather events, rising sea levels, melting sea ice, and impacts to human health and well-being, we must act now and quickly to limit further warming….
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New report: Wild Salmon, Pipelines, and the Trans Mountain Expansion
Last week, we released a report that highlights the risks posed to wild salmon in the Lower Fraser River from…
