Congratulations to the City of Campbell River and BC Housing for signing an MOU to bring a 50 bed supported housing project to Campbell River!
The 2018 Housing Needs Assessment showed a need for more supportive housing, and the 2018 Point in Time Count showed there were at least 81 people completely homeless in Campbell River last year.
Congratulations also to the newly formed Campbell River and District Coalition to End Homelessness who advocated for more supportive housing at City Council last year. See the letters and presentations from CRDCEH here.
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The Health Network has been working with the BC Non-Profit Housing Association to hold their 2019 Vancouver Island Ready Set Build course in Campbell River.
Ready Set Build is a course for non-profit organisations who want to learn about how to build affordable housing.
For more information on the course go here.
Click here to register for the course in Campbell River on May 13th. Registration is limited to 20 participants.
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Island Health Wellness Grants
Congratulations to all groups who will be receiving grants in 2019. Full list is here. The Health Network will be providing support to Laichwiltach Family Life on the Urban Indigenous Housing Dialogue/s project, as well as continuing to provide support in Sayward.
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Community Health Profiles
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Last year the Health Network did a lot of work on gathering health and wellness data on communities in the Strathcona region. The idea of the Community Data Profiles is to provide a snapshot of key priorities of the social determinants of health to improve understanding of how they relate to community health and to be a tool for community members who are creating projects that will influence the social determinants in their region.
We are very proud of these Community Data Profiles and encourage you to take a look by clicking on the images below.
Some profiles still need a couple of touch ups (feel free to let Libby know if you find any typos or mistakes - lking@srd.ca).
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Health Network Welcomes New Table of Partners Members
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At the March meeting of the Table of Partners, we welcomed new members to join our governing committee. The full membership of the Table of Partners is below and new members are marked*.
We are sorry to see Noba Anderson depart as Co-Chair. Noba has been a driving force behind the Health Network since discussions about forming a network first started in 2015. She became one of the inaugural Co-Chairs in 2017. Noba is a passionate advocate for acting on the social determinants of health throughout the region, and especially in her home community of Cortes Island. Immense gratitude also to Cheryl Jordan whose term ended at the end of last year and who was a vital force behind involving the Health Network in early years outreach into regional and remote communities.
Thank you Noba and Cheryl!!
Co-Chairs:
- Nick Chowdhury, Da'naxda'xw/Awaetlala First Nation
- *Christine Colbert, Executive Director Campbell River and District Division of Family Practice
Members:
- Ron Kerr, Strathcona Regional District Director (alternate: Martin Davis)
- Pauline Bernard, Geo 1 Director, Island Health (alternate: Michelle Crosby)
- Audrey Wilson, Executive Director Laichwiltach Family Life Society
- Shannon Baikie, Regional Manager Community & Labour Market Services, North Island Employment
- Mildred Price, Program/Project Support KDC Health
- Cynthia Bendickson, Executive Director, Greenways Land Trust
- Danielle Daigle, Nurse Practitioner, Island Health
- Kim Black, Island Health Dietitian
- *Colleen Evans, City of Campbell River
- *Martin Metz, Community Paramedic for Cortes and Zeballos
- *Erica Benson, Public Health Nurse for Gold River and Tsa’xana
Associate Members:
- *Lynda Llewellyn, Village of Tahsis
- *Joyce Ellis, Village of Sayward
- *Bernice McGowan, Cortes Island
Two positions are left open for members from Nuu-chah-nulth and Coast Salish communities
To find out more about the Table of Partners and how the Health Network is governed, please visit our website.
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Recap on 2019 Health Network Priorities
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Communities in the Strathcona region include:
Campbell River, Wei Wai Kum First Nation, Quadra Island, We Wai Kai First Nation, Discovery Islands, Cortes Island, Klahoose First Nation, Tlowitsis First Nation, Homalco First Nation, Village of Sayward, Valley of Sayward, Village of Zeballos, Ehattesaht First Nation, Nuchatlaht First Nation, Kyuquot, Kyuquot-Checleset First Nation, Village of Gold River, Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation, Village of Tahsis and Oyster River.
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