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SUMMARY:Session 7  Topic – Indigenous Health & Well-Being in a Palliative Care Context    
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – First Nations Elder Bruce Robinson\, Lexi Fisher\, BSW\, RSW\, and Leah Walker\, BSW\, RSW\, all with Kilala Lelum\nCompetencies –\n\nDomain 2 – Cultural safety & humility. Advocates for incorporation of the person’s and family’s cultural traditions\, beliefs\, expectations\, and preferences into decision making\, care planning\, and service delivery models.\nFacilitates expression and inclusion of the person’s and family’s values\, beliefs\, and wishes during declining health and bereavement.\nAdvocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.\nDomain 3 – Communication. Provides support\, mediation\, and advocacy in exploring and clarifying treatment goals and care planning.\nDomain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address persons fears and anxieties related to past trauma.\nUnderstands\, educates\, and works with the person/family and inter-professional team about the interplay of spiritual\, emotional\, social\, cognitive\, and physical aspects of the person’s past experiences on their current quality of life.\nDomain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Advocates at a system and community level\nDescribe strategies and approaches people can use in their clinical practice to honour and value the stories of Indigenous peoples in a respectful way that builds trusting relationship and allyship\, fosters connections\, and allows Indigenous voices to be heard at all stages of life\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-7-topic-indigenous-health-well-being-in-a-palliative-care-context/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 2
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SUMMARY:Session 6 Topic – Prolonged Grief Disorder 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – Marney Thompson\, RCC\, MA\, Director of Psychosocial Services\, Victoria Hospice\nCompetencies –\n\nDomain 1 – Principles of PC & palliative approach. Utilizes a holistic approach to care with awareness of how illness\, death and bereavement impacts all aspects of person’s and family’s functioning.\nDomain 3 – Communication. Provides the person and family/caregiver bereavement counselling and psychosocial education through evidence-based frameworks\, if within role and expertise.\nDomain 6: Loss\, grief\, & bereavement. Expert consultant regarding loss\, grief\, and bereavement. Assesses complex grief reactions and situations\, such as multiple loss\, traumatic loss\, and pre-existing vulnerabilities including mental illness and addiction\, abuse\, and neglect.\nDomain 8 – Self care. Understands and attends to the impact of death\, dying and bereavement on caregivers (self\, family\, team\, professionals).\nIdentify and define Prolonged Grief and distinguish it from ‘normal’ grief\nUnderstand and describe the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of Prolonged Grief\nDiscuss and describe the theoretical orientations and basic interventions used in Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-6-topic-prolonged-grief-disorder/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 2
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210128T000000
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DTSTAMP:20260422T122623
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SUMMARY:Session 4 Topic – Anti-racist practice–Anti-Racist Tools for the Palliative Care Context Part 2 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – Frank Cohn\, Jhevoi Melville\, MSW\, RSW\, and Ayesha Sackey\, all from VAST\n\nCompetencies – Domain 1 – Principles of PC & palliative approach. Promotes and supports the adaptation of palliative principles in all care settings through capacity building of other care providers/community partners as appropriate for role.\nDomain 2 – Cultural safety & humility. Advocates for incorporation of the person’s and family’s cultural traditions\, beliefs\, expectations\, and preferences into decision making\, care planning and service delivery models.\nAdvocates for changes in policy to facilitate incorporation of culture into care.\nDomain 4 – Comfort & quality of life. Adapts care to address person’s fears and anxieties related to past trauma.\nDomain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. Participates in community awareness and engagement activities to build understanding\, capacity\, and inclusion. Addresses micro\, meso\, and macro factors that influence PC (e.g.\, internal and external barriers\, social determinants of health).\nDomain 8 – Self care. Identifies team and organizational barriers and issues and works collaboratively to address them. Promotes an organizational culture that is safe for expression of multiple perspectives and practicing within ambiguity.\nBecome aware of own level of Racism profile through use of self-assessment tools and anti-racism growth chart.\nBecome more comfortable with using anti-racism tools through application of ACTION tool to a case study. Describe how to respond competently to racial comments\, behaviours\, or policies in the workplace setting through a stance of cultural humility (compassionate\, reflective\, non-judgmental) in practice.\nDescribe the barriers to responding to racism and identify how racism in the workplace impacts individual staff\, clients\, client service\, and organizational culture\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-4-topic-anti-racist-practice-anti-racist-tools-for-the-palliative-care-context-part-2/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 2
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CREATED:20211019T183414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T173952Z
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SUMMARY:Session 2 Topic – Leadership & Education in PC Practice–Leadership\, Advocacy & Education in Psychosocial Palliative Care   
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – Anke Krey\, Education and Research Project Facilitator\, Victoria Hospice\, and Wendy Wainwright\, former Director of Clinical Services\, Victoria Hospice \nCompetencies: \n\nDomain 7 – Professional & ethical practice. When appropriate for role\, engages in quality improvement\, research and knowledge translation to advance practice of self and others\, bringing a psychosocial perspective.\nEducates others (teams\, learners\, systems\, community) regarding psychosocial palliative care (PC) and palliative approach.\nTakes leadership in policy\, program development and delivery of psychosocial PC as appropriate for role. Identify “teachable moments” to educate (teams\, learners\, systems\, community) and describe strategies to advocate for psychosocial PC and the palliative approach to advance practice of self and others.\nDescribe opportunities to engage and bring a psychosocial perspective to quality improvement\, research\, and knowledge translation.\nDescribe their role and responsibility in leadership in policy\, program development and delivery of psychosocial PC\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-2-topic-leadership-education-in-pc-practice-leadership-advocacy-education-in-psychosocial-palliative-care/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 2
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SUMMARY:Session 6 Topic – Supporting Children Affected by Serious Illness
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter – Camara van Breemen (MN\, CHPCN\, Play Therapist\, Nurse Practitioner(F)\, Canuck Place Children’s Hospice)\nCompetencies –\n\nDomain 5: Comfort and quality of life. Provides developmentally appropriate non-pharmacological interventions within own expertise appropriate including: art\, play therapy\, and relaxation for relief of distress. Refers to other resources as needed.\nDomain 6: Loss\, grief and bereavement. Understands the characteristics and challenges of grieving for a child or youth. Provides counselling support or refers as appropriate.\nExplore strategies to assist parents in sharing serious illness information with children\,\nDiscuss issues related to connection between the seriously ill person and a child\,\nReview activities that may be helpful for children along the illness trajectory and at EOL\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-6-topic-supporting-children-affected-by-serious-illness/
CATEGORIES:Echo,ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 1
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200306T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200306T093000
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CREATED:20211018T230315Z
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SUMMARY:Session 2 - MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) 
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \nPresenter: \nTammy Dyson (MSW\, RCSW\, Leader\, (MAiD) Fraser Health)  \nCompetency – Domain 5 –Care planning and collaborative practice: \n Explores MAiD-related feelings\, worries and hopes with people and their family.  \nDescribe the context of MAiD including current legislation\, Distinguish between Desire to Die statements and requests for MAiD\, Identify areas for assessment with a request for MAiD\, including the patient\, family and self\, Know how to contact MAiD coordinators in each health authority [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.bc-cpc.ca/event/session-2-maid-medical-assistance-in-dying/
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CATEGORIES:ECHO Psychosocial Series Cohort 1
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