Our Program
Program Overview
Our first CPYC community program is offered for the National Capital Region in partnership with the Municipality of Cantley, Quebec. Our headquarters and training area are located just a few steps away from Cantley City Hall and the community center.
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Training Program: Ages 12-79
Immersed in beautiful nature, we train civil protection skills and build capacity, practice team-building and offer our activities and workshops.
Our training program is strongly focused on maintaining continuity and enhancing value through a variety of healthy outdoor activities. It is designed to nurture a deep connection with nature, foster a sense of team spirit, and equip volunteers with practical, hands-on skills that are applicable in everyday life. This approach is designed to strengthen confidence, enhance resourcefulness, and contribute to overall well-being.
This includes skill development, as well as additional activities offered to the wider public in form of team building workshops, day camp, disaster resilience days, handicrafts days, wilderness field trip destinations, and themed nature excursions.
With a disaster preparedness, response and recovery lens, the community training volunteers work on:
Hazard and risk awareness and safety
Awareness raising of the benefits of disaster preparedness
Capacity building and skill development, including technical disaster response and recovery skills
Based on international best practice and the THW basic training curriculum.
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Community Action Team: Ages 18+
The Community Action Team focuses on: identifying and preparing responses to threats that impact our collective safety and well-being. This includes events that put our community values, environment, health, heritage and economic well-being at risk.
With a disaster mitigation lens, the Community Action Team works on:
Identifying risks and vulnerabilities with regards to climate change adaptation and sustainable urban planning,
To encourage and invite citizen engagement and participation to collectively ensure our community’s resilience and prosperous future
Identify shortfalls, develop and implement measures to increase our collective disaster readiness
Based on the guidance from the Federal Government in form of the recently published National Adaptation Strategy(NAS) and Disaster Risk Profile (DRP).
Program Outcomes
From Awareness to Action
Increasing frequency and severity of disasters makes it essential to adapt by increasing hazard and risk awareness, and learning how to mitigate, respond to and recover from disaster impact. Our Program aims to empower individuals and build the connections, capacity and capabilities needed for a concerted effort leading to disaster readiness and resilience.
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Resilience starts with individuals. It is a learned behaviour consisting of skills and processes that become internalized and applied during stressful times. The more people in a community are resilient, the less strain is caused on the support system in times of need.
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Having multiple resilient people form a team that can be relied on in times of need will strengthen the entire community. Our program is an exciting civil engagement option to make a difference and contribute to society, while being part of the solution to address a current gap in our response system.
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There is a big difference between a spontaneous, untrained volunteer and an expert integrated into the response system, trained from early age on to recognize hazards, remain in control, and act safely when disaster strikes. Commitment to continuous engagement in our program and certification process ensures integrated expert community volunteer capacity 18+.
Additional Program Outcomes
Healthy outdoor activity
Making in-person friends and connections
Enhance community spirit and networking
Learning new hands-on skills
Sense of purpose
Increased confidence, resourcefulness and resilience
Adventure and excitement to escape everyday life routines
Satisfaction of being part of an important cause
Empowerment to be able to help ourselves and others
Youth leadership
Training Day Topics:
Basic rescue knots
Hazard awareness & safety
Emergency lighting & power outages
Storm protection & safety
Flooding & flood protection
Teamwork & leadership
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To join CPYC's training program, all participants have to read and agree to the Code of Conduct, the Liability Waiver and the Media Release Waiver. If you have any questions, or requests, please reach out to us directly!
