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Listen to Landon Hoyt on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Landon Hoyt, Executive Director at the Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association, joins us to talk about how this BIA is doing things differently to make a difference in their low-income urban neighbourhood.

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Listen to Maura Gowans on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Maura Gowans, a registered social worker and Central City Foundation board member joins Hope Dialogue to talk about trauma-informed care and how to better help those who have experienced violence, pain and injustices.

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Listen to Ash MacLeod on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Ash MacLeod, Executive Director of A Better Life Foundation, joins us to talk about community-driven food programs and using food recovery to help make sure more people can be fed.

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Listen to Norm Leech on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Norm Leech, Executive Director at Frog’s Hollow Neighbourhood House, joins Hope Dialogue to help us better understand the idea of decolonization and the associated opportunities for all of us.

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Listen to Sarah Stewart on Central City Foundation's Hope Dialogue

Sarah Stewart, Executive Director of Aunt Leah’s, joins Hope Dialogue to discuss the challenges faced by youth aging out of care and how we can provide better support to help ensure these young people don’t fall through the cracks.

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Change Can Happen. Our 2024 Profiles in Community Leadership

Central City Foundation is once again celebrating examples of extraordinary community leadership and innovation from the organizations we walk alongside and support. These individuals and their organizations have demonstrated that change can happen in our community.

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Community Report: An update on the ongoing Opioid Crisis in the DTES

In 2017, Central City Foundation published a Community Report entitled “On the Front Lines of the Opioid Crisis: How community organizations and their staff are coping.” Six years later, we are experiencing yet another year of tragic, record-breaking numbers of deaths from overdose in BC and set out to reinterview our community partners to hear about how they are coping today.

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