Members
Our members include organizations working to promote health and wellness, and prevent chronic disease in BC.
Voting Members
Our voting members provide collaborative leadership to guide BCAHL’s positions on important issues, policy recommendations, and strategic directions.
BC Healthy Communities
BC Healthy Communities Society (BCHC) is a non-profit organization focused on fostering healthy, equitable communities. By working at the intersection of public health and planning, BCHC helps create environments where everyone can thrive. They are committed to ensuring that systemic barriers do not prevent community members from achieving their goals. BCHC supports communities by distributing grant funding, offering resources like workshops and tools, and providing health-focused planning and policy services. Since 2012, BCHC has distributed over $1 million in grants and partnered with communities to advance housing, transportation, and equity initiatives, promoting both individual and collective well-being.
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BC Lung Foundation
BC Lung Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping prevent lung disease and improving lung health through research, education, advocacy, and patient support initiatives. Established more than a century ago to fight tuberculosis, BC Lung was among the first to address the dangers of smoking and to make the connection between air pollution and health. Today, thanks to the generosity of their donors, BC Lung continues the fight for lung health and air quality. BC Lung helps fund vital research to advance 21st-century medicine and other lung health initiatives, support lung patients and their caregivers, and educate British Columbians on how to safeguard their lung health. BC Lung also advocates for policies that protect air quality, which affects children and youth, adults, and seniors. Together, they comprise the 1 in 5 British Columbians affected by a lung condition such as asthma, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, and lung cancer, among other diseases – and always, BC Lung offers Hope, Help, and a Voice.
https://bclung.ca/
BC Recreation and Parks Association
BC Recreation and Parks Association (BCRPA) is a not-for-profit organization representing over 126 local governments, including 5500 individual recreation, parks and culture employees, affiliate organizations, corporate partners and students, and 3000 fitness professionals (group fitness and personal trainers). Our members live and work in communities in every corner of British Columbia. Together we are the provincial voice for recreation and parks in BC.
Our work highlights the essential role recreation and parks play in sustaining active, healthy and resilient communities, in creating a sense of belonging, and safeguarding individuals through preventative health programs, services, spaces and places.
Since 1958, we have provided leadership, training and support, fostering the principles of accessibility, equity, diversity and inclusion to help our members meet provincial and local health and physical activity priorities that improve the quality of life of every British Columbian.
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Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer, across Canada and for all types of cancer. Together with patients, supporters, donors and volunteers, we work to create a healthier future for everyone. Because to take on cancer, it takes all of us. It takes a society.
https://cancer.ca/en/
Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division
Founded in 1918, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is the most established, most extensive community mental health organization in Canada.
We are a federated charity, which means we are a collective of organizations bound together by a brand and mission. Together, we identify and respond to Canada’s most pressing mental health priorities. At the national and provincial level, we push for system and policy change. At the community level, millions of people in Canada rely on CMHA’s extensive grassroots presence.
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Diabetes Canada
Improving the quality of life for people with diabetes is at the heart of Diabetes Canada’s commitment to all Canadians diagnosed with this chronic health condition. That means connecting children and youth with type 1 diabetes through Diabetes Canada’s D-Camps; providing healthcare professionals and people with diabetes with expert information that improves their care and self-management; assisting researchers working on leading-edge treatments; and advocating on behalf of those with diabetes for equity, improved access to supplies and more.
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Heart and Stroke Foundation
An evidence-based organization, Heart & Stroke has worked to promote health, save lives and enhance recovery for people living with or at risk for heart disease and stroke for more than 70 years.
Research is at the core of what we do at Heart & Stroke. We invest in world-class, innovative research across the country to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery.
We empower Canadians to live healthier lives — from preventing and controlling high blood pressure, to healthy eating tips, to getting more physical activity. We also educate people to learn the emergency signs of heart attack, stroke and cardiac arrest, and how to react. And with our health system partners we work to identify gaps in care and collaborate to find effective solutions.
In our advocacy and policy work, we drive change that will create better health for all, such as: strengthening tobacco and vaping legislation; creating heart-safe communities with greater access to AEDs; empowering lay responders with the confidence and skills to do CPR and use an AED if they witness a cardiac arrest; and working with partners to improve access to rehabilitation and recovery services for people with brain injuries such as stroke.
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Public Health Association of BC
The Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) is a voluntary, non-profit, non-government, member driven organization that provides leadership to promote health, well-being and social equity. We fulfill our mission through advocacy, collaboration, education and research and do this work through the spectrum of public health practice; including prevention, promotion, protection and policy.
The Board of Directors is composed of public health leaders from various locales including Health Authorities, the Ministry of Health, post-secondary institutions, and the non-profit sector. The Association was founded in 1953 and has close to 500 members.
In 2019, a culmination of a two-year effort resulted in PHABC’s successful application for charitable status. PHABC is now a registered charity and all funds donated will support our efforts to create a safe, healthy and fair British Columbia for all.
Our identified priorities include: eliminating poverty; reducing health/socioeconomic inequities; addressing climate change and healthy environments; contributing to a sustainable, equitable economy; and preventing violence.
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YMCA BC
By igniting belonging and championing health equity, YMCA BC strengthens the foundations of community. With over 2,500 employees and volunteers, YMCA BC serves 150,000 individuals of all ages, backgrounds and abilities across hundreds of service locations, from the Sunshine Coast to Fort St. John. As a charity, YMCA BC promotes equitable access to healthier outcomes by providing vital programs and services to help address many of our communities’ most pressing social issues, including health and wellness, affordable child care and camps, mental health, employment services and newcomer supports. At our core, the YMCA is committed to creating spaces and experiences where everyone feels safe, welcome, and like they belong. YMCA BC collaborates with YMCA-YWCA Vancouver Island and YMCA Southern Interior on provincial initiatives, valuing the strong partnership with these associations.
https://bc.ymca.ca/Related Story
Non-Voting Members
Non-voting members contribute to the alliance by sharing their research, expert advice and connections through their networks.
