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Hospice Volunteer Competencies Launched: Join us for a one-hour session to learn more

Aligned with our existing competency frameworks for health care professionals, the volunteer competencies are organized under eight headings, or domains. No matter how you decide to operationalize the competencies in your volunteer program, they are designed to help you better recruit, screen and train hospice volunteers. The new volunteer competency framework was co-created with 18 [...]

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BCCPC’s Provincial Bereavement Roundtable Funded by MSFHR – 2021 C2 award!

In a recent announcement, the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) included the BCCPC’s proposal on bereavement as one of the recipients of the 2021 Convening and Collaborating awards. Now well into our second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and with an estimated nine people affected by bereavement for each COVID death, MSFHR agreed

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Research spotlight: Bereavement in BC

Since the beginning of the pandemic, many traditional supports for grief and bereavement have been disrupted, and the effect of these disruptions on peoples’ grieving process is currently not fully understood. A new research study by BCCPC is investigating this very question, seeking to better understand the experiences of people who have lost a loved

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BCCPC’s innovative tools and resources used nationally

As BCCPC continues to create tools and resources to advance the practice of a person-centred approach to palliative care, more organizations are discovering the value of these innovative tools and sharing them with their own stakeholders. Three recent examples: BCCPC’s innovative tools highlighted in national report - BCCPC’s interdisciplinary symptom management guidelines and compassionate communities

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iCAN – ACP project concludes

The national iCAN-ACP study was developed to test ways to improve advance care planning (ACP) conversations between patients, families and health professionals. The aim was to narrow the gap between the care that elderly Canadians living with frailty want and the care that they receive. The study had four project teams focusing on different settings

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