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…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN), in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective, has published a new, free guide called Prepare Together for Extreme Heat.
Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new neighbour-to-neighbour guide.
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.
Participate in Connect & Prepare and help build a culture of “neighbours helping neighbours” where you live! (Two info sessions available!) About this Event The pandemic is reminding us all…
At Building Resilient Neighbourhoods, we often talk about community resilience as a set of “muscles” we can intentionally develop that will help us pro-actively respond and adapt to different shocks…
We are inviting groups of neighbours living on the same street or in the same buildings or building complexes to be part of an exciting new program called “Connect &…
On March 31, neighbours of Leonard Street in Victoria, BC welcomed the newest addition to their block: a shared emergency supply bench. The bench was envisioned months ago by the…
Together, We Can Build the Future of Emergency Preparedness The Challenge British Columbians are vulnerable to earthquakes, wildfires, floods, tsunamis, changing climate and severe weather. Many of us are also…
Are you interested in strengthening emergency preparedness and connections between neighbours? Become part of our unique pilot project! “Connect and Prepare” Call for Expressions of Interest Together we are ready!…