Resource Library

Over a dynamic three days of learning, Summit for Strength, Communities Ending Poverty’s 2023 national gathering, explored resilience in a new way. Check out content from the keynotes, panels, and workshops that took place at the Summit below. 

Tuesday April 25 | Hope and Inspiration

Welcome and Plenary

Video Stories - Hope and Resilience: Government, business, non-profit and lived/living experience perspectives

Keynote - Michael Redhead Champagne: Implementation as Medicine

World Café: Success stories from Communities Ending Poverty

• Giiwe Sharing Circle, Bruce Grey and Zunga Bus, Powell River

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• High School Education That Matters, Portage la Prairie
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  • Learn more about the Roving Campus

Wednesday April 26 | How do we Build Resilience?

Welcome and Plenary

Video Stories - Hope and Resilience: Lived/living experience perspectives from Hawaii

Panel Discussion - Resilient Against the Status Quo: Systems Transforming for All with Victor Beausoliel, Juanita Zerda, and Nation Chong

Workshops Round 1

• Equity Indicators Framework as a tool for changemakers

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• Using ABCD to build a sense of belonging can build strong and viable neighbourhoods

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  • View the workshop slide deck

  • Read: Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) at a Glance

  • Read: Building a Neighbourhood Plan - Doing With Not For

  • Read: Connecting Lakeside, York, ON

  • Watch webinar: Using ABCD to Build Community in Social Housing

  • Join: ABCD Community of Practice

• Inclusive and equitable approaches to climate resilience
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Workshops Round 2

• The non-profit pivot: strengthening capacity for uncertain times
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• A new funder perspective: shifting models to empower change
  
  
• Building Resilient Communities Through Inclusive Business Practices
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Thursday April 27 | Policy and Systems Change

Welcome and Plenary

Keynotes:

• Karen Joseph, Co-Founder of Reconciliation Canada

• Lisa Helps, Former Mayor of Victoria

Workshops Round 3

• Community resilience and the social role of local government 
  • Read Local Government Levers: Reconciliation and Poverty Reduction

• Empowering youth leaders in community changemaking

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  • View workshop slide deck

  • Youth Engagement resources from YouthRex

  • Youth Mental Health and Addiction Champions (YMHAC) Initiative

  • A Guide for Meaningfully Engaging Youth

  • Engaging youth as leaders in poverty reduction