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.
Events
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Implementing the Serious Illness Conversation Program in the East Kootenays
onlineSession Resources Session summary YouTube recording Join us to learn about a practical, evidence-based tool enabling clinicians to have more, better and earlier conversations with people. Presenters will share about the Serious Illness Conversation Program (SICP) Implementation toolkit pilot within a rural community in Interior Health. We will share how this toolkit was developed to […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Basics of a Palliative Approach
Session resources: Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series This session introduces key concepts of a palliative approach. We will discuss who would benefit from a palliative approach to care and talk about a health care provider’s role in providing this approach to care for their patients. A case study will […]
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Taking Serious Illness Conversations Seriously:Â Unveiling South Asian Perspectives on Advance Care Planning
onlineSession resources: Session summary notes Session recording: YouTube Part of our Updated & Innovations in Essential Conversations for the Health Care Team ECHO Series. Based on a qualitative study exploring English-speaking South Asian Canadians’ perspectives using the Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG), this session will examine how cultural norms—generational differences, family decision-making structures, physician-patient power […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Cultural Safety & Humility Practices
Session resources Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series This session explores concepts such as privilege, personal and systemic biases and how it can lead to culturally inappropriate care. Scenarios will be shared, and the session will focus on recognizing ways to respond towards providing culturally safer care. Competency domain: Cultural […]
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AboutGrief: An Action Plan and New National Grief Portal
onlineSession resources Session summary notes YouTube session recording Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series This session explores the Canadian Grief Alliance’s Next Steps Action Plan for Grief and Canada’s new National Grief portal, launched in July 2025, called Aboutgrief.ca. The portal aims to help people who are living with grief and those […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Essentials of Communication
Session resources Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series This session we will discuss foundational communication skills and explore a person-centered framework used to guide conversations focusing on what’s important to a person with life-limiting illness. Participants will also have the opportunity to discuss providing virtual care. Competency domains: Communication; Virtual […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Goals in Motion: Achieving What Matters
Session resources Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series In this session we will identify the importance of determining a person's goals for their care and discuss key elements of Advance Care Planning and Advocacy. Participants will discuss a case study to apply their learnings. Competency domains: Care planning and Collaborative […]
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Inclusive Pathways in LTC – Building Belonging for 2SLGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Care
Session resources Session summary notes Session recording: YouTube Part of the All Together ECHO Series 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults continue to face systemic barriers, invisibility, and unmet needs across hospice, palliative, and long-term care. This session shares lessons from the first year of a two-year provincial initiative led by Dignity Seniors Society to strengthen safer, more […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Supporting Grief & Loss
Session resources: Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series In this session, we will discuss how each person’s grief experience is unique. Participants will work through scenarios discussing ways to support patients, families, and colleagues. Competency domain: Loss, Grief, and Bereavement
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-At the Core of Caring
Session resources Session summary notes Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series As healthcare providers, we know self-care is important, yet it’s something many of us may not take time to reflect on. This session we will focus on our own self-care needs and discuss ways to support each other, ourselves and our colleagues. […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-Providing Comfort & Care
Session resources Session summary note Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series This session is an introduction to promoting comfort and quality of life for people with a life-limiting illness and their family. Together we will discuss supporting symptom management as someone transitions through their last days and hours of life. Competency domains: Optimizing […]
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Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Leading Edge
Session resources session summary note Part of our Flexing Your Core ECHO series In this session we will identify and discuss common issues in palliative care, and we will talk through steps to take in addressing ethical issues by discussing a case scenario. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how education, evaluation, QI […]
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Compassionate Dementia Inclusive Communities
Session resources YouTube session recording Session summary notes Part of the All Together ECHO Series A sneak peek of how 3 social health movements Nav-CARE, dementia-inclusive movement and Compassionate Communities - are helping to empower and support people living with early-onset dementia, their families. An overview of ongoing project and stories from 6 Canadian communities […]
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Goals of Care in the Acute Care Setting: Drawing in the Team
onlineSession resources Session summary notes Session recording: Youtube Part of our Updated & Innovations in Essential Conversations for the Health Care Team ECHO Series. This session will speak to the opportunity to take an interprofessional approach to eliciting patients’ goals of care (GOC) in acute care settings. Dara Lewis (an acute care lead for Vancouver […]
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A Community Collaboration: The Sunshine Coast Hospice Green Sleeve Advance Care Planning Program
Session resources Recording: YouTube Session summary notes Part of the All Together ECHO Series Sunshine Coast Hospice Society (SCHS) developed their Green Sleeve program in 2020 as a collaboration with local physicians, paramedics and home care nurses. It started out as a COVID pilot project and has become a core Hospice program. This session will […]
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Neurodivergence, grief, and bereavement
onlineRegister Here Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series This virtual session will have a presentation with Q & A. Session poster you can print and share linked here. Presenter: Jess Holtslander, RSW, MSW, RCC, Sun & Clouds Counselling This series is for anyone interested in increasing their knowledge around grief and bereavement […]
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Hybrid AMS Nest at UBC 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Save the Date: A Special Hospice Palliative Care Week Presentation is Coming Up! Providence Health Care staff and partners across the region are invited to join a special presentation for Hospice Palliative Care Week on Tuesday, May 5, 2026, 12:00-1:15 pm featuring a joint presentation by Dr. Sarah Levitt and Dr. Daniel Buchman. This session, “Towards a Palliative Psychiatry for Severe […]
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Palliative Essentials in LTC ECHO: Foundations and Care Planning
onlineRegister Here Learn how to integrate a palliative approach into long term care from move-in, with a focus on what matters most to residents and their families. This session introduces the foundations of a palliative approach, supports clinicians in adopting care planning that prepares for both current needs and anticipated changes, and highlights the new […]
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Connecting Minds Through Compassionate Hearts
Register Here Part of the All Together ECHO Series Join us to learn how community minded partners are building an dementia-inclusive culture to help reduce stigma, raising awareness and empowering supports for people living with early dementia to age in place.. Presenters: Erin Connelly, Operations Director, Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society Laurie De Croos, […]
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Palliative Essentials in LTC: Conversations — Aligning Care with What Matters
onlineRegister Here Connecting with residents is key to understanding who they are, what matters most to their quality of life, and how care can align with their values and preferences. This ECHO session focuses on goals of care conversations as a way to understand each resident as a unique person, support their understanding of their […]
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Conversations that Matter with Dementia
onlineRegister Here Join us for a discussion on Conversations that Matter with Dementia. Presenter: Dr. Trevor Janz, Residential Care Medical Director, Interior Health East, Nelson, BC
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Palliative Essentials in LTC ECHO: Person centered symptom management – addressing pain
onlineRegister Here Person centred pain management in long term care is a core palliative essential. Untreated pain in frail older adults leads to significant distress, functional decline, pain behaviours, and reduces quality of life. This ECHO session focuses on effective pain management starting with understanding the resident's goals of care and highlighting timely assessment including […]
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Grief and Caregiving: Difficult Conversations and Decisions in Dementia Care
onlineRegister Here Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series Dementia caregiving is often shaped by ongoing and anticipatory grief, as families experience repeated losses long before end of life. This session examines how both grief and dementia can impact challenging discussions regarding safety, personal independence, and end-of-life matters. It offers practical strategies to […]
