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Building Sustainable Communities
Fanning Community Sparks into Flames!
November 27, 2013
Vernon, BC Cadet Camp
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Inaugural Forum May 8th in Osoyoos
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Inter-sectoral conversations
Community Sparks• One contact per community arising from
the OS forum - 8 communities• ‘Fanned’ through meetings, phone calls
and information – time consuming because cultivating relationships is critical to success!
• First meeting was with Coalition leadership
• Healthy Community Scan as proposed as a successful engagement tool – strengths base
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First steps
• $1500 micro grants to complete the scan
• Recruited an IH employee for each group
• Monthly calls with IH Healthy Community Local Liaisons (HCLLs)
• Monthly calls with Community Leads
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OK Falls first meeting
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IH Healthy Community Local LiaisonHCLLs represent IH interests and provide practical support - through participation along with other community members - to begin work to create a healthy community action plan. Groups will be comprised of local government and community stakeholders.
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Group capacity will be built• Coalition will host capacity building
workshops
• HCLLs and Leaders provided with Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Community Capacity Building Tool to monitor progress
• On-going process
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Inter-sectoral conversations
Assessing scan results for capacity
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Academic support for the work
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The sparks are now embers• 8 groups 6 active• In process of completing the scans, and
analysing the findings• Leaders meeting at UBCO in January• Winter OSHLC Forum will transfer
knowledge on research and best practice • $ , capacity building, evaluation support • New action teams (constellations)
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Oliver action ideas• Outdoor exercise/fitness• Incentives to increase physical activity• Healthy built increasing transportation
options• Increasing access to affordable choices • Healthy Eating affordable choices• Neighbourhood Garden Program
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Dr. Andrew Larder, IH Senior Medical Health Officer
“A healthy community is a sustainable community.
In the short term a healthy community makes the healthy choice the easy choice for individuals;
…..in the long term it works to improve the broad determinants of health for the entire population.”
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Thank you!
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Betty BrownCommunity Health
FacilitatorPromotion & PreventionCommunity Integrated
Health ServicesInterior Health
(250) [email protected]