Richmond—Board Voice members elected Michael Davis as chair of the board and Kerry Pateman and Lynn Malinsky as new board directors at the Annual General Meeting on November 23.
Michael Davis is an award-winning communications strategist who directs major accounts …
Hello everyone and welcome to the early morning Board Voice Annual General meeting.
I hope that you enjoyed yesterday as much as I did and was as inspired as I by Hildy and Dimitri. We recently heard from Hildy that …
Over the Fall 2013, a successful 4-part initiative to promote the multiple benefits of having young people involved with community social service agencies was undertaken by Board Voice member agencies in Prince George in partnership with other local community social …
The Cowichan Board Meets Board project started before there were any funds available to communities. In June 2010, an invitation went out to thirty-six community social service agencies. Twenty-three board members and executive directors from twelve different agencies came together.…
In early in 2013 we distributed an email survey to 25 community-based social service agencies, establishing that all the agencies are interested in exploring the benefits of a collective voice for Central Okanagan Boards.
Since then, we’ve held four meeting, …
“Fierce Conversations” is a Sunshine Coast Community Services Society (SCCSS) program to:
a) develop/enhance skills of board members around having difficult conversations and reaching a positive outcome around real/current concerns, and
b) to build capacity on the Coast for facilitating …
Masters Students at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Simon Fraser University are
beginning a six month project to review BC’s current approach to social policy development and examine how a social policy framework could facilitate effective policy decision-making.…
The Vancouver area community boards in action project sprang out of several conversation we were having around a discussion paper put out by the Federation of Community social services called Social Policy Frameworks in Canada.
When Doug mentioned how hard …
November 12, 2013
Vancouver—The most recent report by the Representative for Children and Youth, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, When Talk Trumps Service, A Decade of Lost Opportunity for Aboriginal Children in B.C., is a sad reminder that good
