Our Approach

Vision

Healthy, equitable, and resilient communities and ecosystems.

People and communities are empowered to achieve health and wellness for their communities  and ecosystems.

Purpose

To support community and planetary health and reduce preventable and unjust differences in health and wellness.

Values

Humility, Connection, Love, Respect, Sustainability, Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Principles

• Truth, Rights and Reconciliation | Rights-Based | Truth before Reconciliation 

• Health Equity | Anti-Racism | Anti-Oppressive | Cultural Safety

• Community-Driven, Nation-Based | Self-Determination

• Paddle Together | Collaborative Resilience | All-of-Society Response 

• Open Hearts, Open Minds | Cultural Humility | Reflexivity

• Reciprocal Accountability | It Starts With Me

• Walk Softly 

Lenses

• Two Eyed Seeing | Etuaptmumk | Multiple perspectives

• Holistic | Social, Economic, and Environmental Determinants of Health

• Relationality | All My Relations | Systems Thinking | Complex Systems | Planetary Health

• Intersectionality

Approach

Coordinate collaboration between local networks and anchor institutions to co-benefit community health, social equity, and the environment.

Strategy

Empower a participatory, intersectoral, all-of-society approach to address complex problems through access to and coordinated action on key leverage points in our communities.

Process

1. Connect with core values

2. Challenge biases

3. Participate in community to build authentic relationships

4. Partner with people and networks in equity-deserving communities

5. Listen to complex problems

6. View complex problems from a systems perspective

7. Identify leverage points, such as anchor institutions

8. Map power structures influencing that leverage point, and the influences affecting them (including core values, sentiments, narratives, relationships, and commercial determinants)

9. Engage in deliberate relationship building, networking, and dialogue to gain access to the leverage point

10. Open space and access to leverage-points for participatory decision-making

11. Share and align understandings. On evidence of the primary and secondary effects of that leverage points

12. Identify optimal lever

13. Leverage Public Health Functions at lever in leverage point

Functions

Host an integrated collaboration hub where communities can easily identify and connect with resources, partners, equity-deserving populations, leverage points, and opportunities for health promotion and healthy public policy.

• Our BC. Support connections and relationship building.  [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization]

• Search BC. Support people finding resources and networks in their communities. [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Health Promotion]

• Connect BC. Map communication trees to facilitate intersectoral community networks and communication pathways.  [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response]

• Ask BC. Map equity-deserving networks and organizations to promote equitable consultation and partnerships.  [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Public Health Intelligence]

• Anchor BC. Map local anchor institutions, identify anchor approach opportunities, and engage anchor institutions in collaboration.  [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Health Promotion]

• Align BC. Identify opportunities for co-benefits that can facilitate collaboration. [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Evidence, Knowledge, & Communication ]

• Share BC. Support the reach of knowledge translation initiatives. [Evidence, Knowledge, & Communication | Healthy Public Policy | Health Promotion]

• Empower BC. Facilitate collective advocacy for evidence-based healthy policy [Intersectoral Collaboration & Community Mobilization | Healthy public policy | Health Promotion]