Everybody Active for Health workshop. Last chance to register.
It is an opportunity for recreation, health and social service practitioners to come together and focus on the issue of access to physical activity for health.
Date: December 8, 2009
Location: Abbotsford
For more information http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102847917560&s=11058&e=001Es1-7mG7y7yvvbaERHC5ZhDHThHeGZSlg6QRfe3qT7K5giE6gDnPhuIicYhxs1jrbvAPicN1velLq8pS1pHaYiEvJkPh6Ou8pb628JGbyV5d9GMkNGyCRA6_dQ20PzYkkZ-FO40x5xGSk6PEv947UpJR2FUIIcjl3Az_kjH7XJNmiC0RIo3GKfWzyEHkmDnsNEoZFEBNsnZ
Travel subsidies are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Sixth Rural Communities Summit: Transforming Rural Economies: Change and Innovation
A joint conference of the BC Rural Network, Rural Team BC and the Municipality of Port Hardy. Participants will have the opportunity to explore today’s most innovative strategies in building a sustainable rural economy. Summit workshops and presentations will feature industry leaders with the goal of: creating and enhancing awareness around issues of importance to rural and remote communities across all regions of BC, providing participants with practical tools and strategies that can be translated into actions in their communities and offering valuable opportunities to network with and learn from rural colleagues.
Date: March 16-18, 2010
Location: Port Hardy Civic Centre
More information: Maureen LeBourdais 250-392-1400 summit@bcruralnetwork.ca
http://www.bcruralsummit.ca/
Local government professional development opportunity
This NEW Capilano University course will provide local government professionals with the skills and knowledge they need to understand and analyze complex public policy issues and recommend action to decision makers.
Dates: 6 days total - Jan. 28-20 and March 25-27
Location: Sheraton Airport Hotel in Richmond.
Download the full brochure on PADM 305 for deatils, information on dates and how to register.
Registration begins in early 2010. Contact Alison McNeil, Program Coordinator, Capilano University
Tools & Resources
Promising Practices for Transitioning to Healthier Choices is now available on YouTube. Check them out at http://www.youtube.com/user/bcrpa
More Information: Anna Kirbyson, Provincial Coordinator
Healthy Food and Beverage Sales in Recreation Facilities and Local Government Buildings
http://www.stayactiveeathealthy.ca
The BC Lung Association: QuitNow Services Website
The newly designed and enhanced QuitNow Services website was launched today (http://www.quitnow.ca). You will find a host of information and resources related to cessation including a primer on what happens when you click on QuitNow On-Line - our on-line community (previously when you typed quitnow.ca you went directly to the on-line community site www.bc.quitnet.com)
Smoking cessation focus group short
The Healthy Aboriginal Network: A short video on smoking cessation YouTube page: www.youtube.com/user/HealthyAboriginal
BC Communities Accessibility Network - ACCESSIBILITY 100
New! The Accessible Community Bylaws Guide
Building capacity for positive change has a lot to do with sharing information, especially information about toolkits, resources, and research projects concerning accessibility and inclusion. SPARC BC would like to share our latest project with you in the hopes it will help in your work. If you have something you would like to share with the network, please contact klai@sparc.bc.ca
Announcing Better Together BC report: A Hands On Approach to Family, Food and Fun
Better Together BC is a dynamic new web site with tools for people in the community to submit stories and recipes and to make comments. This website contains tools to support children, parents and health professionals to eat together more often.
More Information: Sydney Massey, M.P.H., R.D., Director of Nutrition Education
BC Dairy Foundation, Phone: 604.294.3775 or 1.800.242.6455
Website: http://www.bettertogetherbc.ca
Funding Opportunities
The True North Strong and Smoke-Free community grant program - The call is out by Northern Health for community organizations and schools to submit project proposals aimed at reducing tobacco use in northern B.C. The True North Strong and Smoke-Free community grant program, now in its seventh year, offers various funding to successful applicants. Projects can focus on any aspect of tobacco reduction such as spit tobacco, second-hand smoke, smoking cessation, youth tobacco prevention or awareness about the hazards of tobacco.
More information: call Laura Johnston, tobacco reduction coordinator, 250-649-7179
Information on NH's Tobacco Reduction Strategy can be found at
http://www.northernhealth.ca
Other
Measuring Up the North: has made it to Round 3 in the Avivia Community Fund Competition. If the idea receives enough votes, it will have a chance at sharing in $500,000 to bring Measuring Up the North ideas to life.
Please vote for our project: Livable Communities. For those of you who have not voted yet, you must register to be able to vote. http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf1854
QuitNow & WIN
The QuitNow & WIN Contest was launched today too. The contest is designed to encourage people quit smoking and to raise the profile of quit smoking services in BC. You can order materials on the website (go into the Tool & Resources section and click on the “order resources”) or send an email to gaby@bc.lung.ca
As a reminder, the best way for people to register is online at http://www.quitnow.ca/ . Registrants must be BC residents,19 years old by January 4, 2010 and a daily smoker for a year. People who have quit smoking as early as May 1, 2009 are eligible for the contest. To
More Information: quitnow@bc.lung.ca
The Recycling Council of B.C. is proud to announce Trailer Trashed: an environmental short film competition that harnesses your creativity to convince the world to stop making garbage!
But this is a film competition with a twist. All the entries must be in the form of a movie trailer and they all have to convey this year’s waste reduction theme, which is:
Say NO to disposable coffee cups! You can use animation, live action, Lego, toy soldiers, sock puppets, your family’s dog, your little brother or whomever else you can convince…and the trailer can take the style of any movie genre like horror, comedy, sci-fi, historical, action flick, love story, buddy movie, chick flick….well, you get the idea. Enter online at http://www.trailertrashed.org
