2024 PlanH Healthy Communities Grants open on May 23
The 2024 PlanH Healthy Communities Grants open for application on May 23, 2024. The grants, administered by BC Healthy Communities, are offered across two funding streams: Community Connectedness and Healthy Public Policy. Applications close on July 4. Join us for an info session on May 30 at 10:30 am to ask questions and learn more about…
Four principles for equitable public engagement
Jennifer Butcher is a former Community Well-being Specialist with BC Healthy Communities.Jacob Cramer is a Researcher & Planning Assistant with BC Healthy Communities. Making sure public engagement processes are equitable is no easy task. For far too long, underrepresented and underserved community members have not had adequate opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the decisions that determine how…
Four principles for equitable public engagement
Jennifer Butcher is a former Community Well-being Specialist with BC Healthy Communities.Jacob Cramer is a Researcher & Planning Assistant with BC Healthy Communities. Making sure public engagement processes are equitable is no easy task. For far too long, underrepresented and underserved community members have not had adequate opportunity to meaningfully contribute to the decisions that determine how…
Exploring the role of power in equitable community engagement
Jacob Cramer is a Researcher & Planning Assistant with BC Healthy Communities. As a society working to reduce systemic inequities, our systems should work to fairly redistribute opportunity, resources and power. Currently, community engagement processes are building a system which tries for fair opportunity, but often neglects to distribute power and resources. As planners and public…
Campbell River and BC Housing collaborate to address housing needs
In an exciting new move, the City of Campbell River is taking action to provide safe and supportive housing for community members, collaborating with BC Housing to establish 50 units of supportive housing in the community within the next two years. The move comes after a 2018 Regional Housing Needs Assessment, conducted by BC Healthy Communities and Urban Matters, identified a number of…
Physical Activity for All: The top five moments from the live event
We were thrilled to have nearly 200 folks join us either in-person or via livestream from across BC for Physical Activity for All: Tools and Approaches for Equity in Active Communities. Interested in the top takeaways from the event? We’ve put together a list of the night’s top #PAforAll highlights, as shared by folks on Twitter. 1. Acknowledging…
THE ISSUE: Economic Equality
The Issue is a series of articles on Healthy Community issues and topics, written by BC Healthy Communities Staff. What is the issue? Economic equality. Why is it important? Healthy Communities foster health by—among other things—making sure that the environments within them are supportive of health. Though we often think of physical environments such as Healthy…
Active Communities Tool
This tool is a conversation starter for local government staff looking for efficient and clear processes to successfully implement healthy community policies.
Healthy Natural Environments Action Guide
What you’ll find in this Action Guide: