BRN is hiring a Facilitator of Programs & Partnerships. 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.
In a crisis or emergency, neighbours are often the true ‘first responders’—they’re the nearest people to each other. That’s why local governments are finding that Connect & Prepare plays a…
Community-based organizations delivered Building Resilient Neighbourhood’s Connect & Prepare program to groups of resident-neighbours in ten market and non-market multi-unit rental buildings in Vancouver, New Westminster, and North Vancouver in…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Hey Neighbour Collective have curated a list of resources, tools, and guides from BC and Canadian sources to prepare for extreme heat and wildfires (updated 2024).
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…
Who do you call when you could use a hand with a simple household task, when you need to borrow an item. How do you stay safe during an extreme…
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Hey Neighbour Collective recently launched their new program Neighbours Helping Neighbours (NHN). Can you give us an overview of what NHN is and what needs it’s…
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.
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.
Learn about, teach, and create Resilient Streets in your neighbourhood. Find lessons learned, ideas, and examples to create tangible impact.
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.