Events for Health-Care Professionals
The team at BCCPC has gathered links to education events designed for Health Care Providers caring for people affected by life-limiting illness. The events are not created or endorsed by BCCPC unless stated in the description.
Hospice Volunteer Competency Framework: Introducing the document & considerations for its use
onlineThis session will help you to consider how the new volunteer competency framework document will be of benefit in settings other than hospices, such as long-term care or volunteer-led community groups and organizations that support people effected with serious illness.
Webinar Series: Help for the Holidays!
Event hosted by: Life & Death Matters Inc., Hospice Palliative Care Ontario (HPCO) and Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association. These webinars are for Personal Support Workers, Health Care Assistants, and Continuing Care Assistants, and will be beneficial for everyone supporting people with life-limiting and life-threatening illness. The holidays can be a particularly difficult time for people who have […]
Supporting Attachment Needs of Grieving Children – Exploring The role of health care providers with Parents and Caregivers
online“Supporting Attachment Needs of Grieving Children – Exploring The role of health care providers with Parents and Caregivers”
Emily Watson
MSW/RSW
Canuck Place Counseling and Bereavement Services
Grief Dreams
onlineJoin Dr. Joshua Black, Research Manager for the BC Centre for Palliative Care, to learn about his study and research into Grief Dreams. In this ECHO session, Joshua will explore how you can work with your client's dreams, and he will share with you his Dream Building worksheet. If you work with and provide care to adults, children and families who are affected by grief and loss and are looking for a tool to support the bereaved, join us on Wednesday, February 2nd at 10:00 am. This session is most appropriate for Health Care providers and Volunteers working in support of those who are bereaved.
The Embodied Experience of Young Adults and Adolescents Living with Serious Illness
online"The Embodied Experience of Young Adults and Adolescents Living with Serious Illness"
Andrea Johnson
MSW/RSW
Canuck Place Counseling and Bereavement Services
Supporting the Bereaved After a Substance Use-Related Death: Building Hope and Resilience in Grief
online"Loss After Toxic Substance Poisoning"
Details TBD
SIC and Disenfranchised Populations: The importance of utilizing a trauma-informed, trust building approach for Serious Illness Conversations with Structurally Vulnerable/Disenfranchised Populations
onlineSerious Illness Conversation Provincial Collaborative ECHO Session Topic: SIC and Disenfranchised Populations: The importance of utilizing a trauma-informed, trust building approach for Serious Illness Conversations with Structurally Vulnerable/Disenfranchised Populations Wallace Robinson, MSW RSW Leader for Advance Care Planning, Providence Health Care
Responding to Existential Distress at End of Life Through Logotherapy – CANCELLED
onlinePsychosocial Cohort 3: Spirituality Session Topic - "Responding to Existential Distress at End of Life Through Logotherapy" Kathryn Calzavara, M.Div., Hons. B.A. Palliative Spiritual Health Practitioner Fraser Health Authority North CANCELLED
SIC in a Cancer Setting
onlineSerious Illness Conversation Provincial Collaborative ECHO Session Topic: SIC in a Cancer Setting Antony Porcino BC Cancer
