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Community Consultations

Disasters are complex, social events. They disrupt everyday operations and force organizations to use new resources and different ways of working. To meet this challenge, communities need to get talking.

To help start these community conversations, The Voluntary Sector Project has created a Convenors Handbook on Building Resiliency and trained a team to kick off a series of Community Connectors events across Canada.

For more information on holding a roundtable in your community, please refer to the Community Resiliency Handbook and the five-step approach to building resiliency.

For more information on any of these events please Contact Us.

Community Connector Workshops

Date Location Event
March 5, 2009 Windsor, Ontario Service continuity planning workshop for voluntary sector organizations providing basic needs services. Hosted by the United Way Windsor-Essex County, with presentations from Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Windsor Fire Services, and Essex County Emergency Services on local emergency plans.
March 4, 2009 Winnipeg, Manitoba Community Resiliency Workshop
Sponsored by Volunteer Manitoba
 View the Activity Report
February 28, 2009 Whitehorse, Yukon Community Resiliency Workshop
 View the Activity Report
February 24, 2009 Kitchener, Ontario Service Continuity Workshop
January 19, 2009 Village of Meductic,
New Brunswick
Workshop on Asset Mapping
 View the Activity Report
December 6-7, 2008 Ottawa, Ontario Community Connectors Workshop
hosted by the CRC in partnership with the CVSRD and Volunteer Canada
November 26, 2008 Ottawa, Ontario Follow-up Community Resiliency Roundtable 'Asset Mapping and Service Continuity Planning Pilot Workshop'
Hosted by CVSRD
October 23, 2008 Burtts Corner,
New Brunswick
Follow-up Community Resiliency Roundtable
Hosted by the Neighbourhood Alliance for North York (NANY)
August 20, 2008 Ottawa, Ontario
Carlton University
Beyond Sandbags, generators, masks and shelters: The role of the voluntary sectors in building community resiliency and emergency preparedness
Hosted by CVSRD and the Canadian Red Cross
 View the invitation
July 28, 2008 Ottawa,
Ontario
Roundtable
Hosted by the Carleton Centre for Voluntary Sector Research and Development (CVSRD) in collaboration with the City of Ottawa's Neighbourhood Planning Initiative
 View the Event Flyer
March 20, 2008 Burtts Corner,
New Brunswick
Roundtable
Hosted by the Neighbourhood Alliance for North York (NANY)
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Fast Facts

Recent survey results revealed only 41% of emergency management organizations have policy frameworks for high-risk populations.

Disaster Timeline

How disaster prone is Canada? To learn more about past disasters and future risks view our timeline.

Testimonial

I recently facilitated an Emergency Preparedness workshop with a large group of special care home operators. At the beginning of the session they were quite defensive about their level of preparedness... "of course we're prepared...we have to be! We have to pass annual safety audits by the province or we could get closed down." By the end of the session, the same people were saying "wow, the provincial standards fall short of what is necessary to prepare us for real emergencies." As a result of the session with these special care home owners, I am sure their clients will now be much safer in the event of an emergency. Not only were they planning for how to provide continued care and safety to the client, they were planning for how to make sure the clients families were informed about their loved ones during the emergency. An essential workshop for anyone who is responsible for the lives of vulnerable people!

— Joanne