The Canadian Cancer Society is a proud founding member of the BC Healthy Living Alliance and over the past two years we’ve been spearheading the BCHLA’s Community Capacity Strategy which has supported over 70 communities across BC to build capacity through partnerships, opportunities for financial support of healthy living projects and comprehensive training and support for community champions who work exhaustively to improve the health of their communities.

Recently we partnered with SPARC BC to host the Community Developers’ Conference at the UBC Longhouse.

Community Developers' Conference at the UBC Longhouse

Given a chance to participate, community youth can become community change-makers.

This unique conference brought together some of BC’s most passionate community members and focused on increasing the skills and knowledge of community leaders to engage in community development work. These community advocates were able to share ideas and strengthen key connections between community leaders across BC.  It was an excellent opportunity to share their community issues — and solutions.

The Canadian Cancer Society is proud to have been able to support such an exciting and impactful event. Thank you to all the community champions out there for energizing us with your work and making BC communities healthier places.

Take a moment to read the conference blog created by participants at the event – and remember to check back often as they’ll be adding more useful resources from the conference in the coming weeks.