Flexing Your Core
We are pleased to announce that our cornerstone ECHO learning, Flexing Your Core is back! Flexing Your Core promotes a palliative approach to care and is foundational learning for anyone working with and supporting people with life altering illnesses. Open to health care providers and students who provide direct care for people with life-limiting illness in any health care setting. This series:
- Is based on eight (8) Learning Hub modules created by a team of experts in palliative care and adult education, alongside a focus group of health care providers
- Offers education that can be applied to patients of any age, at any point from diagnosis to bereavement, in all care settings
- Brings further context to the learning hub content and give attendees an opportunity to learn from others and discuss case studies together
Building on the success of the pilot stage, the Fall 2023 offering of Flexing Your Core has been updated and improved based on the comments and feedback from registrants and participants, for which we are incredibly thankful. The survey established that attendees both new to and familiar with a palliative approach to care found these foundational education sessions beneficial. For some it was new information and for others it was an important refresher and reminder. For the pilot stage, we tested 30-minute sessions and found through survey feedback that a little more time for discussion was needed. Sessions will now be 45 minutes in length, giving the much-needed time for participants to learn from and with each other.
Flexing your Core will be starting on September 22. Register here for the first session Domain 1 Principles of Palliative Care & Palliative Approach.
Check out Flexing Your Core on our ECHO webpage for more information as registration opens for upcoming sessions in the series.
Other ECHO offerings:
Grief and Bereavement Literacy series
The next session in the Grief and Bereavement Literacy Series is schedule for September 19 and is filling up fast! Jennifer Dacre from Chilliwack Hospice Society will present on Grieving the Death of a Pet. We will also hear personal stories from those with lived experience and how they found support in their bereavement journeys. Register here
SIC Collaborative
The next ECHO session for the Updates & Innovations ECHO: Serious Illness Conversation Training for Facilitators & Clinicians is Thursday, September 21 from 1pm-2pm. Camara van Breemen from Canuck Place Children’s Hospice will present on Caring for Young Adults with Developmental Disability – How to Do a Parent Informed / Young-Adult-Centred Serious Illness Conversation.
Please NOTE – This series is for BC Health care providers who are current facilitators of the Serious Illness Conversation guide or are interested in learning more about the Serious Illness Conversation and applying it in your care setting. Register here
All Together ECHO
All Together, a compassionate communities initiative, is relaunching its ECHO series this fall.
Open to everyone interesting in learning more these sessions are for Health Care Providers, Volunteers, Volunteer lead organisations, Community Groups, and individuals looking to be inspired by and learn from others developing compassionate communities.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 noon-1PM: Compassionate Communities: Together for Palliative Care will feature two “Communities in Action” (Compassionate Neighbourhood Health Partner Society, Chilliwack and Galiano Health Care Society: Better at Home – Galiano Island). Register here
Wednesday November 7, 2023 noon-1PM: Prescriptions beyond the pharmacy: The social prescribing approach to wellbeing. Register here
Look for more information about the return of this ECHO series in our October issue of Centre Point.
