Simple actions to get connected and prepared
A free resource offering a practical menu of low-barrier ways to strengthen ties with the people who live closest to you.
Practical tools & guides
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Be prepared for extreme heat and wildfire smoke – a collection of resources
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).
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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.
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Resilient Streets Local Resources Victoria
A roundup of resources from Victoria, including grants, emergency preparedness and community safety, placemaking, public art, gardens, and more!
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Resilient Streets Toolkit
Learn about, teach, and create Resilient Streets in your neighbourhood. Find lessons learned, ideas, and examples to create tangible impact.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Esquimalt Resilient Streets Resources
This provides resources to help develop and launch a Resilient Streets project in Esquimalt.
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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.
