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.

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  • AboutGrief: An Action Plan and New National Grief Portal

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    Session 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Flexing Your Core ECHO-Supporting Grief & Loss

    Register Here 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

  • Flexing Your Core ECHO-At the Core of Caring

    Register Here 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. Competency domain: Self-care

  • Flexing Your Core ECHO-Providing Comfort & Care

    Register Here 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 Comfort and Quality […]

  • Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Leading Edge

    Register Here 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 and research are […]

  • Compassionate Dementia Inclusive Communities

      Register Here 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 at work who are raising […]

  • Goals of Care in the Acute Care Setting: Drawing in the Team

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    Register Here Part of our Updated & Innovations in Essential Conversations for the Health Care Team ECHO Series. Presenter: Dara Lewis, MSN(c), BSN, CHPCN Vancouver Coastal Health, Clinical Educator and Lead, Vancouver Acute Goals of Care Support Team (previously RPACE)

  • Neurodivergence, grief, and bereavement

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    Register 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 […]