Tools and Publications
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...
Nov. 20, 2017 in Tools
Barefoot Guide 5: Mission Inclusion
Stories and Practices of building a world where all belong
Everyone knows that inclusion is hard and in order to reach the most marginalized that something else, something qualitatively different is n...
Nov. 20, 2017 in The Read
This book provides is a good overview of the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. Critic...
Nov. 20, 2017 in Healthy Communities/Cities
A Letter from the Executive Director, Jodi Mucha
BC Healthy Communities Societies (BCHC) is continually exploring how to provide the best evidence-informed and practice-based services and supports to the communities we serve. As BC&r...
Mar. 10, 2017 in The Read
In The Happiness Track, Emma Seppälä, the science director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, explains that our inability to achieve sustainable fulfillment is tied to common b...
Mar. 8, 2017 in Tools
This new report provides the results of the first four years of the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods program. The report shares lessons learned from implementing neighbourhood resiliency projects in the Capital Region.
Building Resi...
Feb. 24, 2017 in The Read
In her new book, Living Cities' Chief Impact Officer, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson shares stories and case studies focused on innovative and collaborative approaches to large-scale social change. Read about leaders who have successfully created s...
Jan. 31, 2017 in Capacity Building
The following article by Sylvia Cheuy explores the idea of community resilience as an ability, a process and an outcome, and examines ways in which communities can become more resilient. Read the excerpt below or dig deeper by download...
Jan. 2, 2017 in Tools
The new anthology Drawn Together through Visual Practice demonstrates the power of visuals as a sensemaking device in an age of unprecedented complexity.
In this anthology, 27 contributors share experience-based me...
Dec. 28, 2016 in Articles
This toolkit is designed to help you (and your neighbours!) start making your building, street or block more resilient with some fun, hands-on projects. We’re deliberately suggesting projects that can be done by small groups of people...
