Community Based Seniors’ Services Declaration
Are you and/or your organization a signatory to the CBSS Declaration yet? You can read and sign it online here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CBSSDeclaration
The Raising the Profile Project (RPP) is a provincial network started in 2016 whose goal is to highlight the key role played by non-profit and municipal community-based seniors’ services in supporting seniors to build new social connections, remain physically and mentally active, and retain their independence for as long as possible.
We are:
- Identifying the impact and challenges of community-based seniors’ services
- Making recommendations about innovative ways to ensure long-term capacity of the community-based seniors’ services sector to meet the rising and increasingly complex needs of British Columbia’s aging population now and into the future
- Laying groundwork for a united sector that makes the best use of available resources
- Supporting the sector be in a position to demonstrate its value

What we learned from province-wide community consultations.
Throughout the Spring of 2017, we hosted seven regional consultation meetings across B.C. to bring together regional communities to identify ways to support and sustain the Community-based Seniors’ Services Sector in B.C. Find out what we learned from these consultations in our report Raising the Profile Project: Findings and Recommendations from the Community Consultations.
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Find out what the research is saying about the sector.
We looked at what the research (both academic and non-academic) is saying about the Community-based Seniors’ Services sector. Our report brings together the key evidence on the sector’s role in promoting health, well-being and resilience for seniors. The research shows that a greater emphasis on health promotion and prevention programming can result in significant improvements in seniors’ health, and reductions in the use of the healthcare system. Report now available.