I am pleased to be working with a non profit group in Musquodoboit Harbour to develop a plan for a new seniors facility, and support seniors’ rights to age-in-place within their community.

New research fact sheets are available, concerning the impact of the built environment on human health, from the Canadian Institute of Planners.

http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/C9E751B58DB84739A342A5766887FA5E/template.asp#FactSheets

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/17285.Jane_Jacobs

The Canadian Institute of Planners has launched a portal linking the planning and development of healthy communities in Canada to our built environment, community design and active living, age-friendly communities, First Nations, mental health, active transportation and housing needs.  Special thanks to the CIP staff, volunteers and planning professionals from across Canada who have worked on this initiative.

- Dave Harrison, Chair of CIP’s healthy communities committee

http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/C0ABA8D17DF149D9BB1EA1BD2D2203E4/template.asp

A supportive housing plan for homeless veterans in the metro Halifax area has now been completed for Veterans Emergency Transition Services (V.E.T.S.).  Now comes the hard part: implementation.

It is important that the arts, music and cultural community in metro Halifax consider and respond to this survey.

http://imaginebloomfield.ca/surveys/

I am pleased to be giving a presentation on April 24th to the teaching staff at the faculties of planning, occupational health and community services at Ryerson University in Toronto. The focus will be on opportunities to promote collaboration between the health and planning professions, to mitigate the health impacts of our built environment, and to explore the role universities can / should play in fostering that collaboration.

Three webinars on the development of healthy communities in Canada will be presented by the Canadian Institute of Planners and Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, March 20-29th, 2012.

http://www.cip-icu.ca/web/la/en/pa/6BF7FFF1E0714E2588B877AC8DDDA254/it/4BD399144C51442EB3C98EA4C4745256/item.asp

A draft housing plan for homeless veterans in our community has been completed. Comments will be received from VETS Canada. Veterans Affairs, CMHC, Command Forces, NS Dept. of Community Services and the Legion; and the final plan will be completed in March.

http://vetscanada.org/

Currently working on a report to promote collaboration, break down silos, form care teams and embrace a “circle of care” approach, improve communications, and enhance the overall effectiveness of diabetes management in Atlantic Canada. The report follows a successful forum held in early November, that brought stakeholders from across the region together to address this pressing health care issue. The project is sponsored by the Canadian Diabetes Association and funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.