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Welcome to our new cohort of Connect & Prepare partners!

BRN’s facilitator training expands the reach and impacts of Connect & Prepare.

ByJason Farra

We’re thrilled to welcome the newest cohort of partners delivering Connect & Prepare!

Connect & Prepare is an innovative program that helps grow social connections between neighbours and support shared emergency preparedness and resilience in their communities.

Staff from a dozen different organizations are being trained as facilitators of our neighbour-to-neighbour resilience programming, expanding Connect & Prepare’s reach and impact to more places across British Columbia. Through our train-the-trainer model, they’re learning how to deliver and adapt Connect & Prepare in their communities.

On February 24th, we kicked off the second part of this latest round of facilitator training with an in-person gathering of representatives from housing operators, local governments, health authorities, and place-based organizations.

Our new partners in this cohort include:

  • Richmond Family Place
  • Victoria Downtown Residents Association
  • Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House
  • Fraser Health
  • Vancouver Coast Health
  • City of Richmond (Emergency Management)
  • Sunshine Coast Regional District
  • Metro Vancouver Housing
  • BC Housing
  • Brightside Community Homes Foundation
  • Concert Properties
  • Resilient Coast / OneEarth Solutions

Over the coming months, we’ll be supporting these partners as they deliver programming to help neighbours get to know each other, learn about both large-scale emergencies and chronic, everyday stressors, identify assets and priorities, and implement shared preparedness projects.

To learn more about Connect & Prepare, read our story about how residents in four BC Housing buildings strengthened connections with their neighbours and became more confident about preparing for challenges in the future. 

Interested in bringing Connect & Prepare to your community?

We regularly offer training to organizations looking to learn the Connect & Prepare approach. Read about the program and its impacts and reach out to us at info@resilientneighbourhoods.ca.