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# Wisdom2Action
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/wisdom2action/
- Published: 1999-01-03T03:07:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-29T01:06:14.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization

**Wisdom2Action (W2A)**, previously the **Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts Network**, is a Canadian consulting firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It offers services in "non-profit organizational development, 2SLGBTQ+ inclusion, creative facilitation, mental health, knowledge mobilization and more."[\[1\]](#fn1)

## History

The organization was formed in 2011, originally known as the Children and Youth in Challenging Contexts Network. It also claims to have been founded in 2013, incorporating as a “social enterprise” in either 2018 or 2019.[\[2\]](#fn2)

## Organization

W2A is a member of the Atlantic Council for International Cooperation (ACIC)[\[3\]](#fn3) and the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.[\[2:1\]](#fn2)

### Personnel

| Name            | Position                                               | Notes                         |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- |
| Lisa Lachance   | Founder and Principal Consultant (former)[\[4\]](#fn4) | Nova Scotia House of Assembly |
| Fae Johnstone   | Executive Director, Co-owner and Principal Consultant  | \-                            |
| Dennis Stuebing | Director                                               | \-                            |

### Affiliations

Partners and clients of Wisdom2Action include:[\[4:1\]](#fn4)

- Access OpenMinds
- Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD)
- Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
- Canadian Practitioners Network for the Prevention of Radicalization and Extremist Violence (CPN-PREV)
- [Canadian Public Health Association](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Canadian-Public-Health-Association) (CPHA)
- Canadian Women's Foundation
- Capital Rainbow Refuge
- Champlain Regional Planning Table for Gender Diverse Health Services
- Children First Canada (CFC)
- Community Foundations of Canada
- Decolonize Now
- Dignity Network Canada (DNC)
- Elder Blu
- Enchanté Network
- Frayme
- Government Services Union
- Gris MTL
- Horizon Ottawa
- [Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Innovation-Science-and-Economic-Development-Canada) (ISED)
- International School of Macao
- Kickstand
- Kind Space
- Kitchener-Wilmot Hydro
- MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning
- Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW)
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Nova Scotia Physiotherapy Association
- *Ottawa Citizen*
- Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women
- Out Niagara
- Promoting Relationships and Ending Violence Network (PREVNET)
- [Public Health Agency of Canada](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Public-Health-Agency-of-Canada) (PHAC)
- Quadrangle NL
- RBC Future Launch
- Recreation Nova Scotia (RNS)
- [Sandbox Project](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Sandbox-Project)[\[5\]](#fn5)
- School Mental Health Ontario
- SPECTRUM
- *Toronto Star*
- UNISON Health and Community Services
- Utilities Kingston
- Wabanaki Council on Disability
- Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE)
- YWCA Halifax

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=wisdom2action)
- [Website](https://www.wisdom2action.org/)

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1. *Home*. Wisdom2Action. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20230119054322/https://www.wisdom2action.org/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *About.* Wisdom2Action. Retrieved January 19, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.01.19-054603/https://www.wisdom2action.org/about/> [↩︎](#fnref2) [↩︎](#fnref2:1)
3. *Organizational Members*. Atlantic Council for International Cooperation. Retrieved November 29, 2025, from <http://archive.today/2025.11.29-002425/https://www.acic-caci.org/organizational-members> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. Johnstone, F., Lachance, L., & Stuebing, D. *2021 Annual Report.* Wisdom2Action. Retrieved July 5, 2022, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20220705154236/https://www.wisdom2action.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/W2A-2021-Annual-Report.pdf> [↩︎](#fnref4) [↩︎](#fnref4:1)
5. *Our Network.* The Sandbox Project. Retrieved June 25, 2025, from <http://archive.today/2025.06.25-022840/https://sandboxproject.ca/our-network/> [↩︎](#fnref5)