Local and Indigenous governments across the province have been awarded $500,000 in grants and additional customized supports through the Age-friendly Communities Grant Program for 13 Plans and 12 Projects that improve community age-friendliness. The Age-friendly Communities Grant Program is being newly administered by BC Healthy Communities Society (BCHC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and is funded by MoH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNow, more than ever, age-friendly communities planning and implementation is an important step for the shifting demographics in Canada. We are thrilled to be delivering this program and working to build on local and Indigenous communities\u2019 capacity to create and sustain age-friendly communities,\u201d said Jodi Mucha, BCHC Executive Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an age-friendly community, older adults are supported to age-in-place, living active, socially engaged, independent lives. This year, grants were offered across two funding streams to support local and Indigenous governments who are working to build age-friendly communities through equitable policies, programs, and services. Planning (Stream 1) grants will support communities in completing an age-friendly community assessment and developing an action plan. Projects (Stream 2) grants are for projects that seek to make a community more age-friendly through developing or amending policy, programs, and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Participating local and Indigenous governments<\/strong> Stream 1: Planning<\/strong> Stream 2: Projects<\/strong> About Age-friendly BC: Local and Indigenous governments across the province have been awarded $500,000 in grants and additional customized supports through the Age-friendly Communities Grant Program for 13 Plans and 12 Projects that improve community age-friendliness. The Age-friendly Communities Grant Program is being newly administered by BC Healthy Communities Society (BCHC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-age-friendly-communities","tag-resource"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Age-friendly Communities"}],"post_tag":[{"value":25,"label":"resource"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/age-friendly-post-4-1024x683.webp",1024,683,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Sharan Gopalan","author_link":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/author\/sharan\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Age-friendly Communities","slug":"age-friendly-communities","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":26,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":26,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Age-friendly Communities","category_nicename":"age-friendly-communities","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":25,"name":"resource","slug":"resource","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":129,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This year\u2019s grant recipients and their projects are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 City of Burnaby \u2013 Creation of an Age-friendly Strategic Plan for Multi-Sectoral Extreme Weather Response in Burnaby
\u2022 City of Delta \u2013 Delta Age-friendly Strategy and Action Plan
\u2022 City of Kamloops \u2013 Age-friendly Community Analysis and Planning
\u2022 City of Vernon \u2013 Vernon Community Age- and Dementia-friendly Action Plan (V-CADAP)
\u2022 City of Williams Lake \u2013 Williams Lake Senior\u2019s Home Sharing Planning Project
\u2022 District of Central Saanich \u2013 Age-friendly Central Saanich: Assessment and Action Plan
\u2022 District of Mackenzie \u2013 Age-friendly Accessibility and Inclusion Action Plan
\u2022 L\u00ed\u013a\u2019wat Nation \u2013 L\u00ed\u013a\u2019wat Nation Elders Needs Assessment
\u2022 Nisga\u2019a Village of Gitwinksilhkw \u2013 Universal Access and Inclusion Strategy
\u2022 Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen \u2013 Kaleden (Area I) Aging in Place Assessment and Action Plan
\u2022 Takla Nation \u2013 Takla Nation Age-friendly Comprehensive Community Plan (CCP) Project
\u2022 Town of Princeton \u2013 Princeton Age-friendly Assessment and Action Plan
\u2022 Village of Clinton \u2013 Clinton Age-friendly Plan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 City of Abbotsford \u2013 Cultural Sports and Activities Exchange
\u2022 City of Courtenay \u2013 Accessibility Audits of Public Open Spaces
\u2022 City of New Westminster \u2013 Piloting the Connect and Prepare Approach for Seniors in Independent Living Residences \u2013 Ross Tower, New Westminster
\u2022 City of Penticton \u2013 Age-Inclusive Emergency Preparedness
\u2022 City of Powell River \u2013 Seniors Together
\u2022 City of White Rock \u2013 Poetry in Motion
\u2022 District of Clearwater \u2013 Rolling Along with Your Community
\u2022 District of Houston \u2013 Seniors Gathering Project
\u2022 District of West Vancouver \u2013 Building Seniors\u2019 Resilience to Emergencies and Disasters on the North Shore
\u2022 Nazko First Nation \u2013 Nazko Community and Social Participation \u2013 Recreation Strategy
\u2022 Township of Langley \u2013 Skill and Story Sharing
\u2022 Village of Valemount \u2013 Seniors Fair and Wellness Outreach<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Age-friendly BC provides funding, resources, capacity-building supports and community recognition to help Indigenous and local governments, as well as other partners to build age-friendly communities. The program, originally designed in 2005 by the B.C. Ministry of Health and partners, has been updated collaboratively with, and is now primarily delivered by, BCHC. The Age-friendly Communities Grant Program is funded by MoH and delivered by BC Healthy Communities in partnership with the MoH and the Age-friendly Communities Recognition Program is delivered by the MoH. For more information and additional resources, visit our website at https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/afc<\/a> and sign up for BCHC\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"