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Resources on CORE include checklists, toolkits, reports, studies, videos, and other materials on topics relevant to those working or volunteering in support of healthy aging and older adults independent living.
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Resilient Streets Toolkit: The How-to Guide for Building Community
BC Healthy Communities and resilientneighbourhoods.ca
This toolkit is designed to help you and your neighbours start making your street, building or block more resilient through fun, hands-on projects.
We focus on activities that can be done by small groups of people with few resources, because finding creative ways to do lots with little is a big part
Declaration of the Community-Based Seniors’ Services Sector in BC and 20 Strategies for Outreach/Engagement
B. McMillan
One of the mechanisms employed for increasing the capacity of CBSS is to unite under a shared Declaration that recognizes the importance of CBSS health promotion and prevention work, and the need for capacity building. This Declaration also acknowledges the importance of closer collaboration between
Suffering in Silence: The financial abuse of seniors in British Columbia
Vancity Credit Union
More than one-third of seniors in Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District don’t tell anyone when they’ve suffered financial abuse.
The troubling finding is part of a Vancity report, Suffering in Silence: The financial abuse of seniors in British Columbia, which shows little has chang
Worksheet Template - Mapping Your Needs: A Grantseeking Framework
GrantConnect
Developed by Imagine Canada, the Mapping Your Needs worksheet is designed to help charities and nonprofits across Canada holistically understand and map out their complex needs in relation to grantseeking. This template provides organizations with an outline for prospect research strategy and serves
Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector
Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector
In Catalyst for Change: A Roadmap to a Stronger Charitable Sector, the Special Senate Committee on the Charitable Sector details the strategies and regulatory reforms needed to maximize the impact of this sector in communities both here in Canada and around the world.
A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire
Public Health Agency of Canada
Canada's first national dementia strategy sets out a vision for the future and identifies common principles and national objectives to help guide actions by all levels of government, non-governmental organizations, communities, families and individuals.Â
Home Support…We Can Do Better
Office of the Seniors' Advocate
British Columbia’s home support program is unaffordable for most seniors, offers too little service for high-need clients and has created a workforce where 75 per cent of staff are casual or part-time, says B.C. Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie. In a comprehensive report titled Home Support…We
A Portrait of social isolation and loneliness in Canada today
Angus Reid Institute
Interpersonal connection is at the heart of all human society. As a species, we thrive on relationships and social interaction, to the point that our health as individuals is negatively affected in the absence of these connections.
A wide-ranging new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute
Seniors’ Housing Report British Columbia
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation [CMHC] have released their 2019 reports on Seniors' Housing, including a report on British Columbia. The report includes data on vacancy rates and rents in British Columbia.Â
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