Autumn 2020 has been a busy time for Advance Care Planning (ACP) community training for BCCPC. The team is training community organizations and volunteers to deliver and facilitate My wishes, My Care ACP information sessions to the public. The facilitators are trained to deliver these sessions in English, Punjabi, Mandarin or Cantonese. In addition, the BCCPC is piloting training of community volunteers to facilitate guided group conversation events and information sessions about ACP for people living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers.
The Fall training activities are part of BCCPC’s efforts to support community partners across BC to raise public awareness of the importance of ACP and to help people in their communities to get their wishes for future care expressed and known.
Presenting via ZOOM (a must in 2020 for social distancing), BCCPC trains facilitators to present the key elements of THINK, TALK, PLAN for Advance Care Planning, especially the importance of thinking and talking about your wishes for future health and personal care. Training is also provided on the substitute decision making options in BC and the relevant legal documents. Participants in the training workshops also learn important facilitation skills that they can take back to their organizations and apply in other situations.
To complement the ACP information sessions, the facilitators for the dementia project are also trained to lead a guided conversation event to encourage participants to begin exploring their wishes, values and beliefs as a first step to preparing a plan.
The training for facilitating the ACP sessions in Punjabi, Mandarin, and Cantonese are supported with funding from Health Canada.
The training for facilitating the ACP sessions for people living with dementia and their family/friend caregivers is supported with funding from Public Health Agency of Canada.
Here’s a look at BCCPC’s fall training by the numbers:
