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Celebrating Volunteers: The Heart of Compassionate Communities

Building compassionate communities that are inclusive and responsive to the needs of older people living with declining health, including those living with dementia, starts with a focus on people—seeing neighbours, friends, and colleagues with dementia not as cases to be treated, but as individuals with unique strengths, passions, and contributions. In a country facing economic [...]

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Compassionate Community Index in action

Over the past year, a team from UBC-Okanagan, in partnership with BCCPC, has worked with eight Canadian organizations to make their communities more compassionate. In the Compassionate Dementia-Inclusive Communities (CDIC) project, six of these organizations used a modified CCI to include a focus on persons living with dementia and care partners, while the two organizations

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No Fixed Address: White Cart Memorial screenings bring community together

From the BC Centre for Palliative Care and the Kelowna Homelessness Research Centre (KHRC), No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial is a powerful and intimate documentary that sheds light on a deeply overlooked aspect of the homelessness crisis: people’s grief following the death of someone they care about. The film weaves together research, personal

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What people are saying about ECHO

Checking in with past ECHO participants to better understand their experience is a key step to making the program even better as we enter 2026. We heard about enablers and barriers to attending, impact on their practice, and the value of ECHO as a community of practice. In total, 21 people accepted the invitation to

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A powerful and intimate documentary … No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial

No Fixed Address: The White Cart Memorial is a powerful and intimate documentary that sheds light on a deeply overlooked aspect of the homelessness crisis: people's grief following the death of someone they care about. Through the voices and stories of individuals living with unstable housing, the film explores what it means to grieve without a

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Sue Bartnik – Learning, unlearning, healing and teaching

When BCCPC team member Sue Bartnik introduces herself, you get a unique snapshot of her whole self: what she’s learned, what she’s unlearned, and a sense of the gentle healer and teacher that she’s become in her professional life. She begins, “I’m a white settler of Polish ancestry. I’m a sister, an aunt, a mom

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Vital collaborations: Clinical consultants

At BCCPC, “collaboration” is practically our middle name. No matter the project, initiative or research paper, you will find a host of people behind the scenes sharing their expertise. By gathering the experience, skill and insights from healthcare providers in a variety of disciplines, we can be confident that we are addressing emerging needs, reflecting best

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Partnership spotlight: Carnegie Centre Death Care Project serves Vancouver’s DTES

Programming continues in our collaboration with the Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES) supporting the underserved communities in DTES and Chinatown areas around bereavement and end-of-life. As the project progresses, their offerings grow, change and evolve to meet the needs of the people it serves. Maybe these will inspire you to create your

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Celebrating Collaboration and Impact: BCCPC and UBC Supporting International Medical Graduates (IMG)

2025 marks 10 years of the provincial UBC IMG Resident Orientation, and BCCPC’s Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) Workshop has been an integral session in the orientation since 2019. Since then, a total of 360 IMG residents have participated in the SIC Workshop as part of the orientation. The Serious Illness Workshop helps clinicians elicit the

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Envisioning Compassionate, Dementia Inclusive Communities

A University of British Columbia-Okanagan research team, partnering with the BC Centre for Palliative Care (BCCPC), has kicked off an exciting nationwide project bringing together three important social health movements—compassionate communities, dementia-friendly communities, and volunteer navigation (Nav-CARE) --to reduce stigma, raise awareness, and offer empowering supports for people living with dementia to age in place.

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