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title: The Latest | Lisa Cyr
description: Lisa Cyr represents the Revelstoke Women’s Shelter and is an an active and committed member of Vibrant Revelstoke – Affordability for All. She brings a deep understanding of the relationship between poverty, mental health and violence against women to this Collective Impact strategic and planning team.
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## Lisa Cyr
Lisa Cyr represents the Revelstoke Women’s Shelter and is an an active and committed member of Vibrant Revelstoke – Affordability for All. She brings a deep understanding of the relationship between poverty, mental health and violence against women to this Collective Impact strategic and planning team.
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### [Leveraging COVID-19 to Create a More Resilient Community](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/leveraging-covid-19-to-create-a-more-resilient-community?hsLang=en-us)
Posted by [Lisa Cyr](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/latest/author/lisa-cyr) on April 14, 2020
The impact of COVID-19 has been swift and intense, and has stopped the world-as-we-know-it in its tracks seemingly overnight. Unnerving as it may be, perhaps a shock like this is just what was needed for us to pause and truly give thought to what isn’t working, and what has to change. For months now, the world has listened (and agreed with) Greta Thunburg as she urged us change our relationship with this earth...but in practical terms nothing much changed. Now, everything is changed. So if the dark cloud of crisis were to have a silver lining, perhaps it is that we no longer have a choice but to look at how we can do things differently – for the time being and for the foreseeable future; and a big part of moving forward can be achieved by working together to achieve our common goals.
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