February News!

Upcoming Events!

Thank you to those who participated in the discussion Paola Ardiles (Founder of Bridge for Health) led on how to Create Healthy and Happy Workplaces at  Empower Health, Vancouver. This interactive discussion featured our brand new Healthy Business Action Framework that highlights various actions areas and examples of practices to promote wellbeing at work. This is a starting point for Bridge for Health and we look forward to your input. We are building on a model developed at Simon Fraser University. Below is a sneak preview:

B4H Healthy Business Action Framework May 2015

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Burnaby Monthly Community Talks

Join us for our next talk on Tuesday April 7th, 6:30-8pm for a discussion on How Intuition can Help you Reduce Stress, Worry and Anxiety with Joseph Eliezer, a Vancouver-based psychotherapist and registered counsellor, best selling author and public speaker. REGISTER TODAY!

Burnaby Public Library (easy access by skytrain and free parking) is supporting our community engagement strategy. If you would like to share your ideas/practice or research with the public, please get in touch with Charlene King our community engagement co-lead charlene@bridgeforhealth.org

Strategic Planning Update

Bridge for Health core team and global advisory group have been working on a strategic planning process for the last 6 months.  We are excited to announce that Bridge for Health will operate as a social enterprise, with consulting and research services offered to support businesses committed to corporate social responsibility, to incorporate wellbeing into their business practices. The profits generated will be used to support the further development of our community engagement and advocacy work.

Over the next year there will all kinds of exciting opportunities for you to get involved.
We will be reaching out to industry partners and community members both in Canada and abroad, to ensure we continue to build the mission and vision of Bridge for Health. We would love to hear from you if you know others that share our passion for health and wellbeing for all.

If you are interested in any more information please contact us at:

info@bridgeforhealth.org

Volunteer Opportunities

In the meantime we find funding to set up our infrastructure, we will be recruiting volunteers to support our business planning, as well as the community/advocacy work. Please visit the website for updates on how to stay involved.

To stay tuned to immediate news and updates please LIKE us at facebook.com/Bridge4Health  or follow us @Bridge4Health

We hope to connect with you soon!

Paola

Paola Ardiles, Founder Bridge for Health
on behalf of the core team and global advisory group.

Happy and Healthy 2015!

We hope you had a restful and relaxed holiday season.

New Year Celebration! 

For our friends in Vancouver, please join us this Friday January 9th for our next networking event and bring in the 2015 with new friends and old ones too. We will celebrate the many contributions of 2015 and say thank you to our numerous volunteers, students and team members that have made all of this possible.

We will have a chance to hear from (and say good-bye to) Marlies Casteleijn, the graduate student from the University Wageningen going back to the Netherlands to finish her program after working hard on her thesis with us this fall. We also have Maggie de Vries, author and advocate, joining us to share her new book.
You will also have a chance to sign up to deliver one of our monthly community talks at Burnaby Public Library for 2015! There is limited space so register here today! NEW YEAR CELEBRATION at Vital Health in Kitsilano 6-8pm PST on Friday January 9th, 2015.

For our friends from beyond BC and abroad, you have the opportunity to celebrate the new year by getting involved and spreading the word about various local, national and global social media campaigns we are supporting. Follow us @Bridge4Health and like us facebook.com/Bridge4Health and also make sure you share with your friends, family and colleagues. We would also love to hear about other campaigns we can support.

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Bringing on 2015!

A leader is anyone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. To reignite creativity, innovation and learnings, leaders must re-humanize education and work. Brené Brown (2012).

This year will be an exciting one as we continue with our strategic planning process. We are inspired by the work of Brené Brown PhD. LMSW (researcher and author) and are exploring her definition of leadership as Bridge for Health defines the strategy (what do we want to achieve) and organizational culture (who do we want to be). We hope you will join us on this voyage of discovery.

To get involved and share your ideas email us today at info@bridgeforhealth.org

Fall 2014 Newsletter

arts workshopCheck out our latest newsletter to get updates on our upcoming events, as well as information about the launch of Bridge for Health’s first research project!

To stay tuned to the latest information we encourage you to LIKE facebook.com/Bridge4Health and FOLLOW us on Twitter @Bridge4Health.

We acknowledge that we all have knowledge to share about promoting health and wellbeing. You also have stories to share that can make a difference. Share your story and use #sharingourselves

 

 

 

New monthly community talks at Burnaby Public Library!

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Bridge for Health is spreading the word about its mission through community presentations and public speaking events. We are very honoured to partner with the Burnaby Public Library (with easy access by skytrain and free parking) to support our community engagement strategy.

Join us at the Burnaby Public Library (Metrotown) for our monthly community talks starting Monday October 4th, 2014!

Sign up today for a free workshop with Bridge for Health Network contributors Laura Mack and Kat Thorsen on Human connection, creativity and health! REGISTER TODAY!

If you would like to share your ideas/practice or research with the public, please get in touch with us at info@bridgeforhealth.org

 

 

 

1st Bridge for Health E-Newsletter!

beach b4hOver the last year we have been very busy building Bridge for Health,  thanks to the support of many committed and talented friends and colleagues.

We are pleased to release Bridge for Health’s first e-newsletter today!
 If you would like to receive updates please add your name to our e-mailing list (found on right side of each page of this site).
You can also stay connected by liking us on www.facebook.com/Bridge4Health and following @Bridge4Health

 

Partnership with Burnaby Public Library

In the fall 2014 Bridge for Health Vancouver network will start monthly community talks at Burnaby Public Library (easy access by skytrain and free parking) as part of our community engagement strategy. The library has kindly donated space for us to share Bridge for Health vision to create health and healing by sharing diverse perspectives on health.

If you are a network contributor and would like to share your ideas/practice or research with the public, please get in touch with Natasha Moore our community engagement co-lead natasha@bridgeforhealth.org

If you would like to become a network contributor please contact info@bridgeforhealth.org today!

 

 

Welcome Brazil to Bridge for Health Advisory Circle!

Abrasco Meeting_May 2014Bridge for Health is thrilled to welcome Dais Gonçalves Rocha PhD. to the global advisory circle!

Dais is a Professor of Health Promotion and Health Education; Human Rights, Culture and Society at the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Brasília-DF/Brazil. She is an Academic Advisor and Professor in the Unesco Chair of Bioethics Program at the University of Brasília, and Co-coordinator of Theme Group on Health Promotion and Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health.

As professor and researcher, Dais has dedicated a lot of time to building alliances and a working agenda between university-services and social movements to reduce health inequities and promote the right to health.

We are excited about the possibilities and partnerships we can create through Dais’s leadership in Brazil and in the Latin-American public health arena!

Bridge for Health Victoria

Victoria 2_May 9 2014On May 8th 2014, Bridge for Health held our first network meeting in Victoria, BC.  We were pleased to have Dais Rocha, a friend and colleague from our advisory circle based in Brazil to join Shannon Turner and Paola Ardiles from the BC Network for this meeting. We brought together a small group of people that have been working for many years on issues related to health and equity.

We are looking forward to future collaboration with other friends and colleagues in Victoria in the upcoming months!  If you are interested in shaping our agenda in Victoria please connect today!

info@bridgeforhealth.org