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Handbook on peer support with people living with NCDs in humanitarian settings . Thanks for Partnering for Change to take this initiative forward . The handbook serves as a practical guide for how to plan, implement and evaluate peer support with people living with noncommunicable. https://lnkd.in/ggBaPZk8

🏠 New Video 🏠 People in First Nations communities are 6 times more likely to live in housing in need of major repairs, which can be a key contributor to mould. Join us and experts from across the housing sector to explore mould’s impact and how we can identify, prevent, and raise awareness about it. Share this video with your network to spread the word. 📺 Watch the full video here: https://ow.ly/BiPL50TkbRZ

In the last three years, we have seen: 💰 A 15% increase in rental housing prices 💰 Home energy costs increased by 22% (between Aug 2022 and Aug 2023) 💰 33% of renters across the province living in unaffordable housing 💰 10x increase in shelter utilization outside of St. John's At Choices for Youth, we see the impact of these challenges every day through the experiences of the youth who we support, and we simply cannot meet the demand. In the last year, we housed 179 young people, and we currently have 150 youth awaiting housing on our waitlist. At least 26% of those youth have recently arrived in St. John's. In 2022, Municipalities Newfoundland and Labrador and Choices for Youth came together to seek a collective understanding of what's happening across the province, and what solutions would make a difference. Through statistical analysis and dialogue with dozens of service providers, municipal leaders, and folks with lived experience, we developed key recommendations, including: 🏡 Growing housing stock, including repairs of existing provincial housing units, and investing in an inventory of land to facilitate affordable housing development 💲 Investing in enhanced and streamlined rental supplements that ensure that homeless individuals have what they need to access housing in our current rental market 🏡 Investing in multi-year funding for non-profit organizations, including those who are operating affordable housing AND those who are providing critical mental health, food security, and wrap-around supports to serve those who are housing insecure 💲 Allowing expanded powers for municipalities to replace tax sales of properties with options to sell properties for a nominal fee to community organizations for repurposing or redevelopment. 🏡 Include non-profit housing in the list of tax-exempt properties under municipal legislation. To learn more and see all the recommendations, check out the report 📑 --> https://lnkd.in/eZ4WPnWs Shoutout to Hope Jamieson, MBA, brilliant researcher and author on this report, as well as Deatra Walsh & Robert Nolan and the MNL team for their leadership and partnership on this work!

On the last day of our Early Intervention and Learning Conference the panel are talking about Communities and Coproduction. Here are just some of the SSBC projects from 2019 to 2024 #nationalchildbureau #nationallotterycommunityfund #earlyyears

Interested in how early intervention can help support families? Read our latest feature story to find out how the Families Together programme in @ELCouncil is leading to real change for children, young people, and their families: buff.ly/4fcb9YL

📝 Dignity should be at the core of delivering aid, but too often, people in need face indignity. Pulte Institute for Global Development and IDinsight's Dignity Initiative propose a Dignity Agenda that responds directly to the life experiences of aid recipients. In their #PolicyBrief, they highlight the most pressing improvements needed to respect dignity. These include: 1️⃣ In-person meetings with recipients 2️⃣ Supporting community-based organizations to speak up 3️⃣ Co-design workshops with recipients before implementation. 📝 Read our recommendations in detail ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gf6pywD5

New #article from Stephanie Galaitsi et al: Family and Community Interventions: A Meta-Analysis on Family and Community Resilience, Cohesion, and Functioning TL;DR: interventions to improve planning and adaptation capacities were sparsely represented in pre-pandemic literature https://lnkd.in/eXqYfXyx

You can read all of the #dearprimeminister letters here: really compelling stuff. https://lnkd.in/dcAaTn9C

Think hard, mes amis: does everyone in your org understand their role in meeting the new regulatory requirements? Fear not – our rather tiptop workshop focuses on the Neighbourhood & Community Standard so practical guidance galore for all! https://lnkd.in/eTGhzjnX #ukhousing

After 2 weeks of internally disseminating the findings of this research to our SCI's donors in Lebanon, I was honored to present them again in front of our global Core Humanitarian Technical Team (CHTT) at Save the Children International. This research is key in providing preliminary evidence regarding the impact of CVA (cash/voucher assistance) on our Protection programming. In collaboration with SC-US and Johns Hopkins University, funded by BPRM, this research (that I personally contributed to) succeeded in emphasizing the impact of cash support in achieving better child protection outcomes. Interesting to read: https://lnkd.in/dFJuBPJG