PlanH: Planning a healthy community starts here.
 
 
 

A snowy sunrise in McBride, BC. Photo: Province of BC/Flickr 

 
 

Coming soon: New PlanH Action Guides

 
 

We're excited to share that we're in the process of developing two new additions to our Action Guide series, focusing on Community Engagement and Healthy Housing. Our guides feature actions and examples from BC communities, opportunities for funding, indexes of other resources and summary checklists that local governments can use to evaluate their processes and determine next steps forward.

Look for the guides in early 2019. In the meantime, browse our current collection of Action Guides on PlanH.ca.

 

Building the evaluation toolbox: Top learnings from the Canadian Evaluation Society BC Conference

 

Evaluation practice is rapidly evolving, and new tools and methods are constantly emerging. This November, BC Healthy Communities attended the Canadian Evaluation Society's BC Conference in Vancouver. While our Research & Impact Specialist Diana Gresku presented, our Researcher Cassidy Paxton catalogued many of the valuable tips, tools and resources shared at the conference. In this blog post, Paxton shares her top learnings from the conference for others interested in evaluating organizational impact.

 
Detail from Sarah Schulman's presentation at CESBCC.
 
 

Kelowna's Journey Home Strategy sees success

 
Detail of Kelowna skyline from Journey Home Strateg.
 

Released earlier this year, Kelowna's Journey Home Strategy is a five-year plan to ensure everyone in the city has a home. The strategy's extensive consultation process is a compelling example of what can be achieved when inclusivity is prioritized and included a Lived Experience Circle—an ongoing advisory group of people who have experienced homelessness. The city's plan aims to see 2100 formerly homeless community members housed by 2024. Learn more about the Journey Home Strategy.

 
 

New Healthy Built Environment Forum goes live

 

The NCCEH Healthy Built Environment in Canada Online Discussion Forum is now live. The forum is open to anyone involved with or interested in designing the built environment, including local governments, those in the design and planning professions, and health professionals. Join the forum to ask questions about healthy built environments, share information and resources, or discuss related topics. Learn more here.

 
 

Hey Neighbour! shares learnings in report

 
Screencap from the Hey Neighbour! report. A mother and father laugh with their two children at what appears to be a picnic.
 

How do we better connect with those we share a front door with? In November 2018, Vancouver invited stakeholders and industry leaders to explore learnings from the Hey Neighbour pilot project, a PlanH-funded initiative. The evening also included recommendations from the Happy City Designed to Engage report, another initiative focused on policy interventions to promote social connection in multi-family housing. Learn more about both projects and view the presentation on the Hey Neighbour! site.

 
 

On PlanH.ca: Videos make the connections between health and local governance

 

Did you know PlanH resources include a selection of videos by and for our local government partners? From one-on-ones with local leaders in BC explaining the connection of local governments to health, to videos explaining the value of the healthy communities approach, to profiles of communities using PlanH grants to make their communities thrive, this section showcases some of the best that PlanH has to offer. Explore our videos here.

The cover of the "What We Heard" report, featuring the Province of BC logo and an aerial photo of a small BC town.
 
 
 
 
Detail from FNHA's canning guide.

LEARN

Canning is one of the ways Indigenous people preserve foods such as berries, vegetables, fish and meat. Now the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) is promoting this efficient and inexpensive process with the publication of a guide called Canning Foods – Your Guide to Successful Canning.

 

Poster for High Ground: Rising to the Challenge

CONNECT

From March 29 to 30, 2019, The Centre for Civic Governance Forum will host High Ground: Rising to the Challenge in Harrison Hot Springs. The conference is a fantastic opportunity to network and discuss how we can build more inclusive, sustainable communities together. Learn more about the conference.

What is the relationship between health and proximity to resources? Find out in this NCCDH webinar.

INNOVATE

On January 23, the National Collaborating Centre for the Determinants of Health hosts a webinar discussing the relationship between health and proximity to resources (parks, supermarkets, community centres, etc.) that impact our daily life. Register here.

 
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