Community Action Initiative Grantee Stories

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

CATalyst Preview: Quesnel Community Action Team

“Ensuring CAT partners use the “nothing about us, without us” philosophy to guide engagement creates an equitable landscape rather than an equal landscape, which helps to potentially form trusting relationships.”[...]

OD-PREP: OverDose Prevention and Response

Essential Practices Knowledge Exchange Series Call for Submissions Now Open! To submit your work, click here! It has been one thousand, six hundred and sixty three days since the declaration of[...]

Five Questions with Jillian Jones and Stephen Thomson

This month, Stephen Thomson, Provincial Harm Reduction Coordinator, and Jillian Jones, Provincial Mental Health Coordinator from Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) joined us to talk about MNBC’s ongoing Alcohol Dialogue[...]

Five Questions with Brenda Plant

This month, we have Brenda Plant, Executive Director of Turning Point Recovery Society, joining us to answer five questions related to Turning Point and her work. Turning Point Recovery Society[...]

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