From Vision to Reality: Understanding the Development and Delivery of the PGHPCS Home Hospice Program
2025-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver)
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Part of the All Together ECHO Series
This in-service session offers an insightful, step-by-step journey through the development of the Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society’s (PGHPCS) Home Hospice Program—a compassionate model of care that brings hospice support directly into the homes of those nearing the end of life. Attendees will gain a deep understanding of how the program was conceived, thoughtfully planned, effectively implemented, and is continuously evaluated to ensure high-quality care and responsiveness to community needs.
Presenters: Donna Flood, Executive Director, Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society & Erin Connelly, Director of Operations, Prince George Hospice Palliative Care Society

Implementing the Serious Illness Conversation Program in the East Kootenays
2025-12-17 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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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 support identifying barriers and facilitators to SICP implementation and lessons learned from this pilot that can be applied to other care settings and regions.
Presenters: Laura Finkler-Kemeny, RN Clinical Lead, Serious Illness Communication, BC Centre for Palliative Care and Grace Hu, MPH Research Coordinator, BC Centre for Palliative Care

Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Basics of a Palliative Approach
2026-01-15 12:00 - 13:00
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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 be discussed with participants to give opportunity to reflect on their learnings.
Competency domain: Principles of a Palliative Approach to Care

Taking Serious Illness Conversations Seriously: Unveiling South Asian Perspectives on Advance Care Planning
2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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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 dynamics—shape engagement in serious illness conversations and advance care planning. Participants will review key findings, examine recommended adaptations to SICG phrasing, and walk through practical strategies to deliver culturally safe, values-aligned conversations in clinical practice.
Presenters: Dr. Amrish Joshi, MBBS, MSc. Pal Med, LLM, CCFP (PC), FCFP, FRCPC, Medical Lead for QI, Richmond CoC. Palliative MD, Richmond Integrated Hospice Palliative Care Program. Clinical Assistant Professor, UBC Division of Palliative Medicine.
Lara Musa, RN, MPHMSN, CHPCN(C), Palliative Nurse Educator Richmond Integrated Hospice-Palliative Care Team
Monica Kelly, Lead, Goals of Care Support Team, Vancouver Coastal Health
Dr. Sukaina Kara, Palliative Physician, Fraser Health Lara Musa, Regional Clinical Educator, Vancouver Coastal Health Richmond Professional Practice

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Cultural Safety & Humility Practices
2026-01-22 12:00 - 13:00
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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 Safety & Humility

AboutGrief: An Action Plan and New National Grief Portal
2026-01-28 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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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 who are supporting others in their grief. It includes articles, a resource map, a Grief Assistant, and a spot to ‘send’ messages.
Session poster you can print and share linked here.
Presenter: Marney Thompson, M.A., Director of Bereavement Services, Victoria Hospice Society
This series is for anyone interested in increasing their knowledge around grief and bereavement to support them personally or in their professional careers.

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Essentials of Communication
2026-01-29 12:00 - 13:00
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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 Care

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Goals in Motion: Achieving What Matters
2026-02-04 12:00 - 13:00
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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 Practice; Advocacy

Inclusive Pathways in LTC - Building Belonging for 2SLGBTQIA+ Older Adults in Care
2026-02-10 12:00 - 13:00
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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 welcoming care pathways for 2SLGBTQIA+ people at the end of life. The session opens with Labhrás Quigley introducing the Inclusive Long-Term Care Project, its origins, partnerships across health authorities, and the progress made toward affirming care for 2SLGBTQIA+ older adults throughout British Columbia. Through stories, emerging findings, and practical tools, participants will reflect on how care providers and health systems can build capacity and foster environments grounded in belonging, safety, and dignity.
Presenter: Labhrás Quigley, Project Lead, Dignity Seniors Society

Flexing Your Core ECHO-Supporting Grief & Loss
2026-02-11 12:00 - 13:00
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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
2026-02-18 12:00 - 13:00
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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
2026-02-25 12:00 - 13:00
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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 of Life; Last Days & Hours

Flexing Your Core ECHO-The Leading Edge
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00
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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 important in palliative care contexts.
Competency domains: Professional & Ethical Practice; Education, Evaluation, Quality Improvement, Research

Compassionate Dementia Inclusive Communities
2026-03-11 12:00 - 13:00
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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 awareness and helping to improve quality of life of people living with dementia and the care partners.
Presenter: Melody Jobse, Community Engagement Lead BCCPC and Community Development specialist, UBCO

Goals of Care in the Acute Care Setting: Drawing in the Team
2026-03-18 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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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)

Advance Care Planning for Indigenous Communities
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:00
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Part of the All Together ECHO Series
Presenter: Carol Fulcher, Program Coordinator + Community Liaison, Merritt and District Hospice Society

Neurodivergence, grief, and bereavement
2026-04-30 12:00 - 13:00 | online
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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 to support them personally or in their professional careers.
