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Building Healthy Communities

Building Healthy Communities

The City of St. John’s values the contributions of its volunteers and the impact that they have on the community as a whole. 

The Building Healthy Communities Volunteer Award recognizes residents who have volunteered their time to support healthier environments within the City of St. John’s. This award recognizes volunteers who are establishing healthier environments and enhancing the community by providing residents with the opportunity to lead healthier lives.

This award is open to all ages and has three categories (Youth award; Community Group award; Adult/Senior award) but nominee(s) must be a resident of the City of St. John’s. All achievements reflected in the nomination must be voluntary/unpaid in nature. Volunteer service must improve the quality of life and well-being of citizens based on how they contribute to one or several, of the following ‘Healthy Community’ categories:

  • Healthy Neighbourhoods and People
  • Social and Community Connections
  • Environment and Sustainability
  • Transportation
  • Inclusion
  • Housing
The awards are presented annually during Volunteer Recognition Week.

Nomination Form

2020 Building Healthy Communities Award Recipients

Barbara Albrechtsons
Barbara Albrechtsons is a retired public health nurse. She volunteers with The Association for New Canadians (ANC). Along with the dedication of many other volunteers and staff, they created "Fresh Start", a breakfast program which takes place at the ANC Language School and serves refugee adults and their children.
Friday for Future St. John’s
Youth lead “Fridays For Future St. John’s” was founded in March of 2019, following in the footsteps of the global movement “Fridays For Future” started by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The ultimate purpose of the group is to fight climate change through strikes and various local events. Fridays For Future St. John’s has hosted five climate protests thus far, their most successful taking place on September 27 where over five thousand strikers took part. The group continues to fight for climate justice and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.
Jude Benoit
Jude is a youth advocate for inclusivity, decolonization, and anti-racism in the community, particularly as a leader and mentor in the 2SLGBTQ community. Jude is being awarded the Building Healthy Communities Volunteer Award for building neighbourhood based support systems for trans and queer youth and other marginalized persons during Covid-19.