Community Action Initiative Blog

International Overdose Awareness Day 2022

August 31st is International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD), a global event held each year to raise awareness and end overdose, remember without stigma those who have died, and acknowledge the grief[...]

Five Questions with Breaking Barriers Project

The Breaking Barriers Project was implemented from June 2020 to March 2021 through a collaboration between the City of Chilliwack, Fraser Health and Chilliwack Healthier Community, and was funded through the Community Wellness and Harm[...]

International Overdose Awareness Day 2021

International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on August 31 each year, aiming to spread the message that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable. It also[...]

Five Questions with Health Champions Conversations

The project helped me in my recovery, once I was able to talk about my story. I held that story in me for years. Telling that story helped me to[...]

On CATalyst – Tanis Oldenburger

Written by: Tanis Oldenburger – Peer Project Coordinator I have had many jobs at restaurant and offices where I have felt that I am easily replaceable, just an accessory employee, not[...]

National Indigenous Peoples Day 2021

Written by: Janine Stevenson – Director of Strategic Initiatives & Special Projects, Dakota Fayant-McLeod – Communications Coordinator With a focus on Indigenous Harm Reduction methods of support and education we[...]

Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day 2021

For many of us, National Indigenous Peoples Day may take a different format than an in-person celebration of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and cultures, but there is still[...]

Budget 2021: BC government sets important precedent for mental health and substance use funding

Today’s Provincial budget announcement of $500M in new funding for expanded mental health and substance use services is critical to the delivery of programs and resources that support the mental[...]

Five Years of Overdose Prevention and Education Network

Written by: Prairie Chiu, Project Manager – Overdose Prevention and Education Network (OPEN) OPEN’s grantees have not only been measured by the success of its strategies or projects, but by the[...]

Five Questions with Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR)

Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR) was founded in 2015. Driven by the determination to create a safe haven for immigrants and refugees on Vancouver Island, co-founders[...]

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