Community grant funding applications aimed at helping older adults in B.C. lead independent and active lives are now open! Local and Indigenous governments, organizations, and communities can submit applications for 2024 grants to BC Healthy Communities (BCHC) starting July 10, 2024, and closing August 26, 2024. These governments, organizations, and communities may apply for a…
This infographic is designed to help anyone who wants to make changes in their community to encourage more students to ride to school using active transportation. It isn’t always obvious which governing body has jurisdiction over details such as speed limits, bus schedules, snow removal or traffic calming. This resource allows users to follow a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…