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…
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.
Read the Vancouver – Mount Pleasant Connect & Prepare Learning Report!
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Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House and the City of Vancouver’s Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction Team brought Connect & Prepare to four buildings in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant in 2022-23.
Read the North Vancouver Connect & Prepare Learning Report! Connect & Prepare was brought to three buildings in North Vancouver in 2022-23, through a partnership involving BRN and North Shore Community Resources, Silver Harbour Centre, Lionsview Seniors’ Planning, North Shore Emergency Management, and the City of North Vancouver’s Planning Department.
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.
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…
Want to help foster vibrant and engaged neighbourhoods in Victoria? Apply to be part of the 2024 Local Champions community-based leadership program ⤵ The City of Victoria’s Neighbourhood Team has…
Pam believes in the power of neighbours helping neighbours and has made an effort to know others in her building. Her next-door neighbour, Mid, was concerned a few years ago, that if something happened to her overnight, no one would know. Mid now hangs a bow outside her door from 7am to 9pm so Pam knows she’s OK. When Mid experienced a recent health emergency, Pam was there to offer help and comfort while she called for an ambulance. Now they speak just about every day.
Many communities in BC have experienced the effects of climate change. Sharing stories of impact, successes and lessons is one of the best tools we have to help each other understand…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN), in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective, has published a new, free guide called Prepare Together for Extreme Heat.
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.
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.