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Winter can feel challenging, but you're not alone! Here are a few tips to help you stay motivated and inspired as a CASA volunteer this season. Reach out to your local CASA program, lean on your community, practice selfcare and trust in the power of your impact!

Here's how much you have to make across the country just to get by

Lead by example 🤸 We love recognizing communities for turning research into practice. Through our National Demonstration Site program, we help communities take advantage of this research to build meaningful environments, then measure their positive effect through data reporting (like the survey quotes you see ⬇️) and translation to help defend budgets and elevate outdoor recreation spaces as essential services. Learn how your community can join the movement ➡️ https://hubs.la/Q02V5cZF0

What city do you call home? Explore this map to find your city & read about the health-forward policies your leaders have implemented for you and your community: https://lnkd.in/eDFb8TSj

Senior living communities experience up to a 60% increase in visitor traffic during the holiday season. Discover essential strategies for managing visitors, ensuring community safety, and supporting memory care residents during this busy time of year. Read The Blog: https://hubs.ly/Q030ddNQ0

Like many councils in NSW, Northern Beaches is facing growing financial pressure with a widening gap between income from rates and the cost to maintain and deliver services like roads, footpaths, sportsfields, playgrounds and pools. This week we launched the Funding our Future campaign.   We are asking the community to consider 4 options: Option 1: Reduce services Option 2: Maintain services Option 3: Improve services Option 4: Increase services   While Option 1 would see rates stay on the same path and result in reduced services, the other options would ensure long-term financial stability for the Northern Beaches.   To help our community understand all the options, we built an online Rates Calculator to give everyone the chance to see how the rate options affect them. We’re also holding a number of community information sessions and webinars. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gN-PP597

Loving relationships are central to developing belonging and connection. Plan 24-30 sets out what needs to happen for those with experience of care to have positive stable relationships. Learn more in the Plan 24-30 route map, and see which sectors must act: https://lnkd.in/e6M-bcDV

Adverse weather events not only wreak havoc on communities, but they also disrupt vital educational services. A first-of-its-kind study from SRI unveils that around 40% of Head Start & Early Head Start sites, which offer crucial and extensive support to young children and their families, are at risk of closure due to harsh climatic changes. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3CAXnAC

I will be presenting my research titled: "Modelling A Hybrid Wind And Solar Power Plant: A Case Study Within The City Of Cape Town". #Renewableenergy #youth #masters #windenergy #hybrid #climatechange City of Cape Town Stellenbosch University Continuum Wind Energy Software

"Since the 90s, I have worked to address the lack of accessible housing and advocate for the development of more. My work runs from affordable housing projects to bespoke high-end private residences such as barrier-free apartments, garden suites for aging-in-place, multi-generational congregate communities, and single homes. I do design, user and stakeholder engagement, project facilitation and management, post-occupancy evaluations, design manuals, and sit on technical and research committees. Why do I do this? Because housing is a basic human need; having housing that works for inhabitants is imperative. Humans have complex relationships with our homes and we cultivate what we need from them technically, functionally, culturally and psychosocially. We know HOW our housing can be accessible. Right now, I am dedicated to identify and address barriers to implementing this information. So that Canada can actually be more accessible." #EveryoneEverywhere #AccessibleHousing #CodeHarmonization #dignity