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Connect & Prepare

  • Floor connectors hold space together smiling in the room.
    Profiles

    Connect & Prepare “should be in every building!”

    By Rob Wipond 2025 . 03 . 042025 . 03 . 04

    At one BC Housing building, residents foster shared capacity, resilience, and fun.

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  • Connect and Prepare Learning Report cover floats in the foreground with a community meeting happening in the background.
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    Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning Report

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2024 . 06 . 252025 . 03 . 04

    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.

    Read More Building Resilient Neighbourhoods’ Connect & Prepare Learning ReportContinue

  • A crowd of people meetup in a beautiful park with giant trees and listen to a speaker before breaking off into smaller groups.
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    Building hope through action

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 08 . 032023 . 11 . 14

    Connect & Prepare program featured in report by Public Health Agency of Canada and BC Centre for Disease Control.

    Read More Building hope through actionContinue

  • Neighbours prepare for heat, together in a shady backyard with some festive flags up.
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    Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new guide

    By Building Resilient Neighbourhoods 2023 . 06 . 212023 . 06 . 23

    Building Resilient Neighbourhoods (BRN), in collaboration with Hey Neighbour Collective, has published a new, free guide called Prepare Together for Extreme Heat.

    Read More Are you and your neighbours safely connected and prepared for extreme heat? Try out our new guideContinue

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    Profiles

    Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: video

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 142025 . 06 . 10

    Workshop leaders and participants discuss how the Connect & Prepare program helps grow social connections between neighbours that support resilience and preparedness.

    Read More Building resilience and emergency preparedness through social connections: videoContinue

  • A montage of photos showing neighbours doing interesting events, facilitated by landlords and owners.
    Resources

    Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit housing

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 02 . 062023 . 05 . 08

    This guide explores many relatively easy things that residents, landlords, housing operators, community organizations, and governments can do to support residents in making activities and social connectedness happen.

    Read More Practice Guide #2: Landlord- and housing operator-led approaches to growing community in multi-unit housingContinue

  • Community members stand working on a public mural in an outdoor space - a great example of a building social connections in a multi-unit building.
    Resources

    Practice Guide #1: Supporting residents to become community connectors in multi-unit housing

    By Hey Neighbour Collective 2023 . 01 . 302023 . 05 . 08

    This guide explores many relatively easy things that residents, landlords, housing operators, community organizations, and governments can do to support residents in making activities and social connectedness happen.

    Read More Practice Guide #1: Supporting residents to become community connectors in multi-unit housingContinue

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