Partner Highlight: “Everyone ‘gets’ emergencies”
Partner feature: Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN) breaks down the sustained benefits of their “Neighbours Helping Neighbours” program.
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What if neighbours helped neighbours more? Here’s what we learned!
What if our neighbours became sources of everyday support that could allow all of us to grow our social connectedness and resilience, while also staying in our homes longer as we “age in the right place”?
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Symposium recap: Living Together 2025
Two-day ‘collective action’ event gathers nearly 200 people to dig into the connections between housing, social health and resilience.
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Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”
At one BC Housing building, residents foster shared capacity, resilience, and fun.
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Jean talks about the importance of qualitative research and why he writes poetry
What work are you involved in with Hey Neighbour? I’m working with a key partner of HNC, the Building Resilient Neighbourhoods team, to help them code qualitative data as part…
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Be prepared for extreme heat and wildfire smoke – a collection of resources
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods and Hey Neighbour Collective have curated a list of resources, tools, and guides from BC and Canadian sources to prepare for extreme heat and wildfires (updated 2024).
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Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning Report
Through its partnership with Hey Neighbour Collective, Building Resilient Neighbourhoods helped to bring Connect & Prepare to three new BC municipalities, in collaboration with resident champions, housing operators, local government emergency management and community planning staff, and non-profit organizations.
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What is Neighbours Helping Neighbours?
A conversation with Molly Rose about Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ new initiative.
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Rental housing operators and community building
Making Connections – a rental housing providers and neighbourly social connectedness research overview.
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Building hope through action
Connect & Prepare program featured in report by Public Health Agency of Canada and BC Centre for Disease Control.
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Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new guide
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN), in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective, has published a new, free guide called Prepare Together for Extreme Heat.
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Webinar recap: Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing
On March 1st, Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) and CMHC co-hosted a webinar entitled ‘Social Sustainability in Multi-Unit Housing.’ A diverse audience, including local and federal government employees, housing providers and…
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Practice Guide #4: Roles for Local Government in Strengthening Social Connectedness and Resilience Activities in Multi-unit Housing
Fourth in a series of four guides from Hey Neighbour Collective about strategies and practices to increase neighbour-to-neighbour connections and social resilience among residents living in multi-unit housing.
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Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video
Workshop leaders and participants discuss how the Connect & Prepare program helps grow social connections between neighbours that support resilience and preparedness.
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Practice Guide #3: Developing organizational partnerships to build community in multi-unit housing
Third in a series of four guides from Hey Neighbour Collective about strategies and practices to increase neighbour-to-neighbour connections and social resilience among residents living in multi-unit housing.
