{"id":3348,"date":"2025-10-03T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:08:49","slug":"bchc-october-2025-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/bchc-october-2025-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"BCHC October 2025 newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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News & resources from BCHC \u2013 October 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Building Healthy Communities together<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Watch our latest PlanH Webinar: Creating attainable housing through innovative land use planning <\/h1>\n

Missed our recent PlanH webinar? It\u2019s now on YouTube! Learn how innovative land use planning can unlock more attainable housing across B.C., with insights from Steven Collyer (City of Penticton) and Erika Sagert (BCNPHA). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Learn more about affordable housing<\/h2>\n

The 2025 Housing Central Conference, November 17-19 in Vancouver, offers three days of keynotes, sessions and networking to advance affordable housing and equity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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record applications for planh grants<\/h2>\n

BC Healthy Communities awarded $250,000 in 2025 PlanH grants, supporting 31 projects provincewide. Indigenous leadership was strong, with 14 projects from First Nations and M\u00e9tis communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Designing Inclusive Spaces for Aging<\/h2>\n

Join a free October 23 webinar, Seniors + Place, to explore how public spaces can foster aging, belonging, and intergenerational connection. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n

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‘Sober for october’ changes its name<\/h2>\n

FNHA\u2019s long-running \u201cSober for October\u201d becomes \u201cReclaiming Your Wellness Month,\u201d supporting harm reduction and abstinence approaches for First Nations people in BC who drink alcohol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Exploring Youth\u2013Elder Connections <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Join an October 21 National Intergenerational webinar to explore how programs connect youth and older generations, fostering learning, belonging, and growth. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News & resources from BCHC \u2013 October 2025 Building Healthy Communities together Watch our latest PlanH Webinar: Creating attainable housing through innovative land use planning Missed our recent PlanH webinar? It\u2019s now on YouTube! Learn how innovative land use planning can unlock more attainable housing across B.C., with insights from Steven Collyer (City of Penticton) and Erika Sagert (BCNPHA). READ MORE Learn more about affordable housing The 2025 Housing Central Conference, November 17-19…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mATQFimX2ANQRYf8bgSe4G-1.png",612,176,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"Patrick Dunne","author_link":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/author\/bchc_admin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":6,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":6,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bchealthycommunities.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}