ECHO

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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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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AboutGrief: An Action Plan and New National Grief Portal

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

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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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Taking Serious Illness Conversations Seriously: Unveiling South Asian Perspectives on Advance Care Planning

Session 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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Implementing the Serious Illness Conversation Program in the East Kootenays

Session 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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From Vision to Reality: Understanding the Development and Delivery of the PGHPCS Home Hospice Program

Session resources YouTube recording link Session summary – coming soon 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

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Essential Conversations: Talking to Adults Who Have Challenges in Articulating their Wishes in Medical Care

Session resources Session summary notes Session recording: YouTube Advance care planning can be more complex with adults who have cognitive or communication differences. Understanding concepts of inclusion, competency and a model of shared decision making can be helpful for the clinician in supporting care planning and medical directives that align with the individuals wishes. This

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Home Health – Emergency Response in Island Health

Session resources Heat Check Tool : https://ncceh.ca/sites/default/files/NCCEH%20Extreme%20Heat%20Event%20-%20Health%20Checklist%20WEB_0.pdf Session summary notes Part of the Climate, Planetary Health & Palliative Care ECHO Series The Emergency Response in Home Health at Island Health is aimed to more efficiently identify clients most at risk and enhance staff safety during any emergency situation. This process has improved the program’s ability

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Waking Experiences of the Deceased: From Bereavement to End of Life

Session resources Session summary notes Session recording: YouTube Part of our Grief & Bereavement Literacy ECHO Series This session explores the moments when individuals report waking experiences of the deceased, which can include seeing, hearing, smelling, and feeling the touch of the deceased. Normalizing these experiences can help reduce distress in all those who experience

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