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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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ECHO year in review and looking ahead to 2025

More ECHO crossover than ever In 2024, we noticed that more than ever, ECHO participants were taking a wider look at our ECHO offerings and “crossing over” to explore multiple sessions and multiple series throughout the year. In addition to those participating in both our open series (where anyone can choose which or how many

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Become an Advance Care Planning (ACP) Master Trainer

BCCPC is seeking expressions of interest from ACP facilitators for the opportunity to become certified ACP Master Trainer, leveraging your expertise to guide and empower BC community organizations in promoting advance care planning. The training program for Master Trainers is set to commence in February 2025. As a co-facilitator alongside a BCCPC trainer, you will

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All Together Symposium – participant reactions continue

The kudos for the second All Together: Nurturing Partnerships. Reimagining Palliative Care. continue to flow in. Attendee breakdown: This highly successful event hosted nearly 200 attendees: 50% work in the health system, 30% work in community non-profits, 10% work in research, knowledge translation and policy development, 4% are health-care students, 7% others. Our attendees rated

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ECHO and Palliative Care in the Climate Crisis

Extreme weather events due to the climate crisis impact every aspect of life, including access to care, and add stressors felt by the health system and individual healthcare workers. Looking ahead to its offerings for 2025, BCCPC’s ECHO program is exploring whether there would be interest in a series about Palliative Care in a Climate

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