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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.
Learning Reports & Publications
What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!
Neighbours Helping Neighbours: Pilot Learning Report (2023-2025) is now available.
Connect & Prepare scaling pilot – full learning report
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…
Connect & Prepare in action in Vancouver – Mount Pleasant
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.
Connect & Prepare in action in North Vancouver
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.
Connect & Prepare in action in New Westminster
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: Four Years of Learnings 2012-2016
It’s been an amazing four years of experimenting, discovering, sharing and learning! We’re proud to release our comprehensive report on what we did, what we accomplished alongside all of our…
Strengthening Neighbourhood Resilience: Opportunities for Communities and Local Governments
This report highlights some of the research and approaches that have been explored and the lessons that have been emerging during the beginning phases of the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods project.
Practical Tools & Guides
Prepare together for extreme heat guide
Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new neighbour-to-neighbour guide.
Resilient Streets Local Resources Victoria
A roundup of resources from Victoria, including grants, emergency preparedness and community safety, placemaking, public art, gardens, and more!
Resilient Streets Toolkit
Learn about, teach, and create Resilient Streets in your neighbourhood. Find lessons learned, ideas, and examples to create tangible impact.
Characteristics of a Resilient Community or Neighbourhood — A Checklist
This checklist framework helps locate the level of resilience capacity that exists in a neighbourhood or community. It can be used as a citizen questionnaire, to promote discussion in focus groups, or as a guide for conducting a formalized community resilience study and assessment.
Laughing Allowed! – A How-to Guide for Making a Physical Comedy Show to Build Neighbourhood Resilience
Download our complete do-it-yourself manual to make a neighbourhood physical comedy show.
Laughing Allowed! — The Slapstick World of Neighbourhood Activism
See our Laughing Allowed production in action to learn how to playfully explore what we do and don’t like about getting involved in our local communities, and to use physical comedy as a different way of beginning discussions about some of those issues.
Esquimalt Resilient Streets Resources
This provides resources to help develop and launch a Resilient Streets project in Esquimalt.
Victoria West Snapshot Appendix: Survey and Interview Data
This provides you with all the detailed data from our surveys and interviews, allowing you to delve deeper into what we learned and do your own analyses.