Tools and Publications
Sep. 4, 2018 in Tools
Together with Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition, we bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a collection of terms you'd find in the Healthy Cities movement. Read the whole alphabet here.
G is for Grant writing. Grant wri...
Jul. 9, 2018 in Tools
Together, BCHC and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (one of our colleagues from the Canadian Healthy Communities Network) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a monthly spotlight for everything encompassed in the...
Jul. 9, 2018 in Tools
Together, BCHC and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (one of our colleagues from the Canadian Healthy Communities Network) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a monthly spotlight for everything encompassed in the...
Jul. 9, 2018 in Tools
Together, BCHC and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (one of our colleagues from the Canadian Healthy Communities Network) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a monthly spotlight for everything encompassed in the...
Jul. 5, 2018 in Articles
Cassidy Paxton, BA is one of BC Healthy Communities' Researchers. Cassidy joined our team in early 2018 when she came to do her practicum during her final semester at UVic, graduating this June with a Major in Health and Community Services ...
Jun. 29, 2018 in Articles
By Sarah Ravlic, MPlan
Healthy Housing in British ColumbiaThe province recently introduced legislation to make housing needs assessments mandatory for local governments. These assessments, intended to better support planning fo...
Jun. 29, 2018 in Articles
Characteristics of the built environment in which community members live, work, play, and learn have an impact on mental health. Community design decisions made today can have lasting impacts on your community, creating elements that will i...
Jun. 28, 2018 in Tools
Together, BCHC and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (one of our colleagues from the Canadian Healthy Communities Network) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a monthly spotlight for everything encompassed in the Healthy C...
May. 17, 2018 in Tools
Together, BCHC and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (one of our colleagues from the Canadian Healthy Communities Network) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities—a monthly spotlight for everything encompassed in the Healthy C...
May. 17, 2018 in Articles
Jennifer Butcher, MPH is one of BC Healthy Communities' Community Well-being Specialists. Jen spent the last several years applying her population health savvy and asset-based approach to roles in learning facilitation and sustainabili...
May. 17, 2018 in Healthy Communities/Cities
Creating Healthier Communities Through Policy
All policies—even those that don't directly deal with health—have the ability to enhance or hinder your community's health and well-being.
As a local government, it's easy to think...
Mar. 2, 2018 in Tools
Together, BC Healthy Communities Society and Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition (OHCC) bring you the A to Z of Healthy Communities. Each month we will showcase a different aspect of Healthy Communities, highlighting many elements of...
Mar. 1, 2018 in Articles
Meet Sarah, a wonderful member of our interdisciplinary team and one of two Healthy Communities Planners we have on staff.
Sarah is a sustainability-minded community planner who believes that through innovative and authentic comm...
Dec. 19, 2017 in The Read
Presence is an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, organizational learning pioneers Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty...
Nov. 21, 2017 in Healthy Communities/Cities
Six communities around British Columbia have been honoured this year for their work to help seniors remain safe, active and independent in their communities.
Abbotsford, Keremeos, Salmo, Sicamous, Smithers and Tofino have each received a l...
Nov. 20, 2017 in Articles
At BC Healthy Communities (BCHC), we identify community engagement as one of our seven guiding principles in supporting communities towards better health. As BC’s Healthy-Community leaders, we know that meaningful engagement strategie...
